re: Dispelling Beef Misconceptions on the F&D board

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I saw a buckhead box leaving the back door of the kitchen last time I was at Ruth's Chris. Yes, buckhead beef.

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So this comment is exactly why I wrote this thread in the first place. What you’re implying is that since you saw a Buckhead Box at Ruth’s Chris, it somehow means they are getting an inferior product.

Buckhead doesn’t own a single slaughter facility or feedlot. They are a branded steak cutting and distributing organization owned by the SYSCO FoodService corporation.

Here’s how their relationship with Rith’s Chris works:

Ruth’s goes out and contracts beef with Cargill, Swift, Tyson or National (possibly some smaller producers like Creekstone or Neiman Ranch). They have approved these suppliers based on their ability to produce midwestern prime beef trimmed consistently to Ruth’s specifications.

Ruth’s communicates the terms of the contract they made with the producer to Buckhead.

Buckhead purchases the whole primals from the producer at the price Ruth’s negotiates, and then cuts them into steaks, also based on Ruth’s specifications. They then cryvac them into individual portions and deliver them to the restaurants at a negotiated markup per case.

So Buckhead isn’t selling Ruth’s anything but the same quality level and the same product they’d get from a different distributor (which is likely the case in areas where Buckhead doesn’t distribute)