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re: Why does restaurants always have Heinz ketchup in glass bottles?

Posted on 12/19/14 at 11:16 am to
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JENNINGS
Member since Dec 2007
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Posted on 12/19/14 at 11:16 am to
It's all about tradition.
Posted by DEANintheYAY
LEFT COAST
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Posted on 12/19/14 at 11:20 am to
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You wish. And the new ketchup gets put in right on top of the old stuff. Ain't no FIFO in ketchup accounting.



Which leads to bottles exploding when opened if you don't rotate them properly. Any current or past servers ever see this happen?
Posted by LouisianaLady
Member since Mar 2009
81197 posts
Posted on 12/19/14 at 11:27 am to
Never seen that.

But didn't just refill. We collected all ketchups, consolidated the leftover ketchup into just a few bottles, and washed the empties and then refilled them with new ketchup.

So only a few bottles had "recycled" ketchup in them, and since they got stored away and put back on random tables in the morning, they were pretty much being emptied within 1-2 days.
Posted by Langland
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Posted on 12/19/14 at 12:42 pm to
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Which leads to bottles exploding when opened if you don't rotate them properly. Any current or past servers ever see this happen?
I experienced this as a customer. I twisted the cap to open the bottle and it kind of did this... LINK
This post was edited on 12/19/14 at 12:43 pm
Posted by Layabout
Baton Rouge
Member since Jul 2011
11082 posts
Posted on 12/20/14 at 7:06 am to
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You can refill any bottle from the huge bag just the same.

Heinz plastic bottles are not refillable. The other side of this coin is refilling Heinz bottles with generic ketchup from Sysco.

LINK
Posted by 81Tiger
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Posted on 12/20/14 at 10:54 am to
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Carly Simon and Ashton Kutcher





Isn't that James Taylor?


Posted by OldHickory
New Orleans
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Posted on 12/20/14 at 11:38 am to
No, it's Ashton Kutcher. Seriously.
Posted by ruzil
Baton Rouge
Member since Feb 2012
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Posted on 12/20/14 at 12:27 pm to
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We collected all ketchups, consolidated the leftover ketchup into just a few bottles, and washed the empties and then refilled them with new ketchup.



This. I used to have a GF who waited tables at the TGIFridays at Cortana Mall in the 80's. She used to have nightmares about that "ketchup consolidator" and wake up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat.

Posted by SuperSaint
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Posted on 12/20/14 at 2:46 pm to
A lot of "nicer" resturants and majority of resturants connected to hotels give the mini bottles. They use them for to-go orders and room service and just keep them for the resturant when they don't go through too much ketchup. Those little things are not cheap individually and add up quick.
I've managed front of the house in some nicer places. Columns for example uses them.
Posted by SuperSaint
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Posted on 12/20/14 at 2:49 pm to
A lot of "nicer" resturants and majority of resturants connected to hotels give the mini bottles. They use them for to-go orders and room service and just keep them for the resturant when they don't go through too much ketchup. Those little things are not cheap individually and add up quick.
I've managed front of the house in some nicer places. Columns for example uses them.
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