Shipped in meals

[richard]

Seems to becoming quite common for restaurants to have ready made meals shipped in when ordered. I've been treated a couple of times to a visit to a couple of down town restaurants where a set menu cannot be varied and my assumption is that the food is not prepared or assembled on the premises but shipped in from a supplier elsewhere in town. Anybody else experienced this?

[blue05]

name and shame

[richard]

Mediterranean foods (wine bar) in Nebkehardt and a place on the beach road down from the police station

[StevePIraq]

SP restaurant, it is all delivered in packets then placed on plates for heating and serving

[richie22]

name and shame

If the food is OK.What's the problem.
I sell pre -cooked food to many restaurants

[GLCQuantum]

name and shame

If the food is OK.What's the problem.
I sell pre -cooked food to many restaurants

Name and shame...

[richard]

name and shame

If the food is OK.What's the problem.
I sell pre -cooked food to many restaurants

99% of the time I'm sure the food is OK but my point is that set meals cannot be changed. Obvious if all you are doing is taking delivery and micro-ing it up

[blue05]

name and shame

If the food is OK.What's the problem.
I sell pre -cooked food to many restaurants

I hope when I visit a restaurant that I am getting a unique experience from the chef or cook

pre packed foods should be for the likes of macdonalds etc


whats the point in opening a restaurant if you cannot even cook your own food?

[Bristolian]

whats the point in opening a restaurant if you cannot even cook your own food?

I agree but to answer your question

Reduced waste
Controlled quality
Reduced skilled staff
Speed of service
+++ Profit

Many of the pub style restaurants will buy pre-cooked, portioned, packs, pies, etc. not to mention the frozen veg and potatoes.

I do realise that you are actually talking of restaurants but profit still rules. If the food is still good I don't see the problem when eating at "value" restaurants as long as the quality is good. It's a very different matter for "high end restaurants"

[ste860]

its been going on in the uk for years its stored in a depot and shipped out over night to the big pub chain as mentioned above its all to do with cost and portion control etc ,im sure its pre cooked and measured in quite a few places here too

[oakdale160]

Very common everywhere, the companies that do airline food are heavily into it. They deliver to restaurants and pubs in unmarked vans. Go to a pub with a long menu you can be sure that their m'wave is the only ovven they use.

[oakdale160]

To blue 05, actually McDonalds are doing more cooking' than many expensive restaurants

[caller]

Go to a pub with a long menu you can be sure that their m'wave is the only ovven they use.

Apart from the steak and possibly a burger option!

Out of curiosity, in HH, what type of 'cuisine' are we talking about, presumably not Thai?

[Bristolian]

I am only talking of western "pub grub" food. I know many of the suppliers of the ready cooked "ping" foods. Maybe there are Thai suppliers also but I think that it's highly unlikely that there would be any benefit/additional profit and therefore highly unlikely IMHO.

[StevePIraq]

My beef with SP Restaurant on Phetkasem was that the meal on my table was not as shown in the photo in the menu, they couldn't explain, finally they coughed up that it was pre packaged and if smaller portions were delivered there was nothing they could do.

We have stopped going to SP anywhere