NPR: A Pound Of Flour To Go? Restaurants Are Selling Groceries Now

[SheltieLover]

[link:https://www.npr.org/2020/04/13/831635629/a-pound-of-flour-to-go-restaurants-are-selling-groceries-now|

A growing number of restaurants are offering produce, dry goods and pantry staples to customers, in addition to their normal menu items. It helps customers buy essential items, provides restaurants with a source of revenue — and addresses a sudden disconnect in America's food supply chains.

That's because in many cases, different supply chains provide food to restaurants than to grocery stores.

"There are some players that sell food only only for restaurants — which means they have big bags of food, they don't have a brand," says JP Frossard, a consumer foods analyst at Rabobank. "The distribution is different. The type of product may be different."

[napi21]

1. I heard on TV tonight that the restaurant supply houses have a lot of inventory and the grocery

stores are having difficulty getting enough of some products. Quite understandable under the current mess we're in. I'll have to check if any of the restaurants around me are doing that.

[SheltieLover]

3. Would be nice

to get restaurant quality food for a change!

[crickets]

2. Helps consumers, helps the restaurants. Smart. Good for them. K&R for visibility.

[SheltieLover]

4. Absolutely!

And quality likely much higher!

[dalton99a]

5. They should also sell toilet paper and paper towels that they get from their distribution channel

Consumers can't get those items in their grocery stores (who cares about the weird sizes)

[SheltieLover]

6. I read somewhere that some are!

Good thought!

[dalton99a]

7. +1. Excellent

It's a great chance to make money

[SheltieLover]

8. Absolutely!

And perhaps if they shift operations that way they might be able to rehire some workers.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

10. I once had diarreia

Really bad was really sick.
It was like 2 days before money came in so my ex walked to mc Donald's and asked our friend working there for tp help. He brought home a humgous roll wrapped in tissue paper. The roll core I would put around my forearm to pull the paper off. I was so thankful and that roll lasted almost a friggin month!! For shits and allergies we both had. It seemed to never end that roll.

[MurrayDelph]

9. My favorite Vietnamese restaurant in Canoga Park stated doing that a couple of weeks ago

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Right now I'm up in Oregon, or I'd give it a shot.

[DeminPennswoods]

11. Will gladly buy the spinach

if any place where I am ever offers it.