FORBES What Sysco’s $29 Billion Restaurant Depot Acquisition Means For Main Street Menus

Sysco’s move to buy Jetro Restaurant Depot for $29.1 billion is a structural shift that could reorder how a quarter-million independent restaurants source their food - and if regulators let it stand largely as proposed, it will reshape how those operators buy everything from chicken wings to to‑go containers for the next decade.

Small independents once used Jetro Restaurant Depot to keep the prices of the Syscos of the world honest; now that “pressure valve” belongs to Sysco itself, raising urgent questions about pricing power, supply chains, and whether one more point on food costs will squeeze what’s left of mom‑and‑pop restaurant margins. READ my Forbes column HERE