Sysco
Sysco is the largest US foodservice distributor with 17% share of the highly fragmented $370 billion domestic market. It distributes roughly 500,000 food and nonfood products to restaurants (60% of fiscal 2025 revenue), education and government buildings (8%), healthcare facilities (8%), travel and leisure (7%), and other locations (17%) where individuals consume away-from-home meals. In fiscal 2025, 70% of the firm's revenue was derived from its US foodservice operations, while its international (18%), quick-service logistics (10%), and other (2%) segments contributed the rest.www.sysco.com
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Sep 14, 2026
Alan FratiGUEST
So now with U.S. Foods, I think prior...
Alan FratiGUEST
when we talked to you last time we were with Cisco.
Alan FratiGUEST
So establishing a whole new purchasing program with them.
Alan FratiGUEST
We did work on an MDA agreement with them, so we kind of have locked in pricing.
Eric CacciatoreHOST
Every item, trying to figure out where can we squeeze in more room.
Eric CacciatoreHOST
So let's just go down that list real quick.
Eric CacciatoreHOST
Why make the switch from Cisco to US
Alan FratiGUEST
Foods? So we really just...
Bo BryantGUEST
I'm trying to qualify one very rudimentary concept here.
Bo BryantGUEST
And that is what's the financial discipline look like from an accounting standpoint, right? And so more often than not, when I hear somebody complain about a high food cost and I say, tell me how you got to that answer, they're saying, here's all my Cisco invoices and here's my sales, right? Here's my general ledger or my AR statement from Cisco for the last month, right? And I spent $40,000 and I did $200,000 in revenue or $100,000 in revenue, you know, so I'm 40% food cost.
Bo BryantGUEST
Well,
Donald BurnsHOST
No,
Yousuf AhmedGUEST
The way that food gets produced and then distributed, at least in the United States, is so antiquated.
Yousuf AhmedGUEST
They're basically big distributors, as you just touched on, right? KEHI, UNFI, US Foods, Cisco.
Yousuf AhmedGUEST
Those are the big ones.
Yousuf AhmedGUEST
And they move... like something like 95% of all of the food in the United States that gets produced or is even imported.
Diane DevereauxGUEST
I know I can trust eating at because they make everything from scratch.
Diane DevereauxGUEST
You, they don't get their full food order from, you know, some Cisco or Gordon food where everything's already pre-made and processed and gross.
Diane DevereauxGUEST
Um, but yeah, I, I want people to have the tools to do this themselves because if it's not only going to be an economic issue next year, because it's already now, if it's going to get worse next year, that's even scarier, but we have to think of our health.
Diane DevereauxGUEST
This is our biggest asset as our bodies.
Troy HutchinsonGUEST
Um, one is like the CPG packaging now that we're now doing with a White House where it is a retail product that they, uh, already produce and put into the market, um, where our kiosk can just load that product in there, heat it up and serve it.
Troy HutchinsonGUEST
We have a menu of items that we have packaged and, and, um, mass distribution through people like Vistar and Cisco.
Troy HutchinsonGUEST
And then we have another thing called a self-pack menu where a customer or food brand can package items themselves.
Troy HutchinsonGUEST
We will help them test those foods, get the right cook times, make sure that shelf life and everything is determined before it gets loaded in there.
Dusty TimmonsHOST
But one of the things I did want to talk about, too, was I heard, and I did not have time to dig into the details of this because I heard about it about an hour before I got here, Apparently there has been an executive order where the part of the USDA that feeds prisons and schools and stuff like that, there has been an executive order to try to buy beef as local as you can to an area, to where your area is.
Dusty TimmonsHOST
And it goes back into watching the deal with Cisco.
Dusty TimmonsHOST
Well, that would be great.
Dusty TimmonsHOST
I mean, they
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Dusty TimmonsHOST
He said, but it's only enough hamburgers for two.
Dusty TimmonsHOST
So you've got to have that whole process in there, and it's not just one thing that can do it.
Dusty TimmonsHOST
And that's why you wind up with people like Cisco that, you know, you go into a restaurant and have a popper in San Francisco, and you can have the same popper in Charleston, South Carolina, because Cisco.
Tillery Timmons-SimsGUEST
So, well, and which says, like, there's a need for both of those.
Ruben SantanaGUEST
I mean, to be honest, man, I've been, I've been, you know, what's so funny that I've been dealing with my vendors for a long time.
Ruben SantanaGUEST
Like I told you, like the mom and pop vendor that saw me when I was in front of my house, even my Cisco vendor.
Ruben SantanaGUEST
And I don't know if I said Cisco people are like, but my Cisco vendor, I met him when I was cooking out of a vacant lot.
Ruben SantanaGUEST
near the Barclays Center.
Ruben SantanaGUEST
He was just walking by at their party with his, at that time, his fiance and popped in like, hey, you cooking barbecue? Wasn't trying to sell me on anything.
Ruben SantanaGUEST
We sat, we talked.
Ruben SantanaGUEST
He came the next day, chilled.
Ruben SantanaGUEST
And then that's when he told me he was with Cisco, but I couldn't do no business with him because I couldn't meet, you know, his minimum orders and stuff like that.
Lou ZiskaSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
They're increasing the risk that someone is going to get food poisoning.
Vicky NguyenCORRESPONDENT
Our investigation also took us to Cisco, the largest food distributor in North America.
Vicky NguyenCORRESPONDENT
At their Will Call warehouse outside Atlanta, where restaurants come to pick up food orders, we watched this customer's unrefrigerated van being loaded with raw chicken.
Vicky NguyenCORRESPONDENT
We followed it to Clayton State University, where the food was carted into a student dining facility after sitting unrefrigerated for nearly two hours on a hot day.
Vicky NguyenCORRESPONDENT
Its dining vendor thanked us for bringing these concerns to their attention, saying health and safety are its highest priority.
Vicky NguyenCORRESPONDENT
It's received no reports of illness or complaints, and it's conducting a detailed investigation.
Vicky NguyenCORRESPONDENT
Back at Cisco...
Vicky NguyenCORRESPONDENT
Is this normal that you load food into people's cars that are not refrigerated? Both Cisco and Restaurant Depot declined to go on camera.
KirkHOST
[laughs]
James BarrowHOST
Um, I used to drive for, um, Summit Foods, which is now Cold Bar, which it's kinda like Gordon Food Service, Sysco.
KirkHOST
Yep.
James BarrowHOST
That's all I did, and I would get ...
JDHOST
And hand cutting fries might be silly.
JDHOST
So we kind of just left it where I'm thinking, okay, we'll probably just figure out something on a food truck, a Benny Keith or Cisco or whoever, Gordon's, figure out who your provider is.
JDHOST
But I took a trip a little over a month ago to Manhattan for a weekend.
JDHOST
And what my family, we went to a place called Asheville.
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