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Sysco Food Stored in Dirty Sheds Served to Bay Area Restaurants NBC Bay Area learned Sysco Corporation rented outdoor public storage units for years and used them as makeshift warehouses for raw meats, t&t supermarket milk, and produce destined for restaurants and other clients across Northern California.
NBC t&t supermarket Bay Area learned Sysco Corporation rented 14 outdoor public storage units for years and used them as makeshift t&t supermarket warehouses for raw meats, milk, and produce destined for restaurants and other clients across Northern California. After weeks of surveillance, the investigative unit questioned Sysco employees about the practice and revealed its findings to restaurant owners all over the Bay Area. The investigation spurred immediate t&t supermarket action t&t supermarket by state health inspectors. Investigative Vicky Nguyen reports on July 16, 2013.
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The Investigative Unit s exclusive hidden camera investigation prompts immediate action by CA health inspectors; Sysco Corporation -- one of the country's t&t supermarket largest food distributors with 400,000 clients worldwide -- is facing major penalties for keeping t&t supermarket meat, milk and vegetables in outdoor storage t&t supermarket lockers and delivering it to restaurants all over Northern California. Investigative Reporter Vicky Nguyen reports on July 10, 2013.
But when health officials and restaurant owners learned that Sysco Corporation, one of the nation’s largest food distributors, was storing steak, chicken, pork, milk, and produce in outdoor storage sheds across Northern California, they were stunned.
Beginning in May, the NBC Bay Area investigative unit staked out four different outdoor unrefrigerated storage units that Sysco rents throughout the Bay Area. These firsthand accounts along with interviews with state health inspectors paint an unsavory picture of food left on the floor alongside rat droppings t&t supermarket and insects. On several occasions, cameras recorded food left sitting unrefrigerated for hours at a time in sheds that were not permitted to store food or water. t&t supermarket One manager told us, his facility has this policy in place because of the potential for food to “attract rodents.”
“Sysco’s first priority is our commitment to provide safe, quality-assured products to our customers. Sysco San Francisco’s drop-site practices in the bay area were not compliant with company policy. We are working with local health department authorities on their investigation to assist them with their needs. We also have reviewed with Sysco San Francisco our policy, and they have taken corrective action.”
If you’ve ever dined out, you’ve probably eaten Sysco food. According to the company’s website, Sysco Corporation provides food to nearly 400,000 clients worldwide, including hospitals, restaurants, schools, t&t supermarket even our own diner here at NBC Bay Area.
“This was something that had been going on for a long time – over 10 years,” the source told NBC Bay Area. “Enough is enough, the public needs to know where their food is coming from.”   At 4:30 a.m. on a recent weekday morning, NBC Bay Area hidden cameras observed a Sysco delivery truck arriving at an outdoor, unrefrigerated storage shed in Concord. The driver unloaded box after box carrying bread, lettuce, cheese, and raw pork. State and federal law requires that potentially hazardous foods like meats and dairy be placed in a temperature controlled environment at all times. State law also prohibits food of any kind from being placed on the ground by food handlers.     But throughout the day, NBC Bay Area captured Sysco salesmen picking up the food in their personal cars – another violation- to deliver to customers. Five hours after the delivery truck first arrived, a salesman finally loaded a case of “Butcher’s Block” pork into his trunk.
Still, that didn’t stop Sysco from keeping raw chicken, beef, vegetables, and milk on the floor inside these sheds. At one facility, NBC Bay Area observed food being stored just a few feet away from a rat trap.
In San Jose, NBC Bay Area spotted a saleswoman picking up food after it was sitting in a shed for three hours. But she didn’t drop it off right away. She made another stop to pick up a friend, followed by a trip to Starbucks, before eventually arriving at the Almaden Valley Athletic t&t supermarket Club. NBC Bay Area later confirmed, the swim center is a Sysco client. t&t supermarket
In t&t supermarket all, NBC Bay Area observed Sysco truck drivers dropping off food in Concord, San Jose, San Francisco and Greenbrae; the investigative unit also confirmed Sysco used a total of 14 storage units across Northern California to store food.
“Well, sure, five hours is a problem, yeah,” the man acknowledged, after dropping off bread sticks at a Walnut Creek restaurant. NBC Bay Area observed those breadsticks sitting t&t supermarket on the floor of a Concord shed and followed the salesman to the restaurant. He sa