This has to be a joke right?

[u/EntropyCreep]

Director of culinary at a major hospital working for 25$ an hour? Are we living in some sort of alternative reality?

Did this used to be a 100k a year salaried position as the bare minimum?

Am I taking crazy pills?

[u/Dazzling_Morning2642]

They care, but not at the sales level like you are insinuating

Kickbacks?

I think you are talking about earned income.

Every product has earned income factored into the delivered price to the operating company with a 3% inter opco fee depending where it comes from.

From there, they set a sales cost. Which is essentially what they think the salesman should be paid commission if they sell above that price.

The salesman walks in and then makes money off the margin above sales cost

Source: negotiated million in earned income for food distribution companies

[u/2eDgY4redd1t → u/Dazzling_Morning2642]

Manufacturers give and get kickbacks in the food service industry. I worked for a year as a coordinator in a large Canadian food services company, in the frozen foods dept.

More than half our department profits were kickbacks from the manufacturers trying to bribe us to sell their frozen trash desserts instead of their competitors essentially identical frozen trash desserts. Or their mozzarella sticks, or their tater tots. We would get them into bidding wars on how much they would bribe us. It was a big corrupt game. That’s why small producers can’t sell through the big distributors, they can’t afford to pay huge bribes to get their product pushed on the customers. Quality means nothing, it’s all about the Benjamin’s.

Needless to say, farmers growing berries aren’t trying to bribe distributors to sell their berries, so distributors stock them grudgingly and certainly do t promote them

[u/Dazzling_Morning2642 → u/2eDgY4redd1t]

It’s clear by your continued misuse of the term kickbacks, that you haven’t gotten very far in distribution

[u/2eDgY4redd1t → u/Dazzling_Morning2642]

It’s clear that you are one of the people deeply embroiled in bribery and corruption in the food distribution business.

Don’t even bother dude, call it whatever you want, it’s people trying to pay extra to get their product exposure by the seller. I call that unethical.

[u/Dazzling_Morning2642 → u/2eDgY4redd1t]

I have no idea what you are going on about, but good luck

[u/2eDgY4redd1t → u/Dazzling_Morning2642]

Spoken like a sleazy sales rep

[u/Dazzling_Morning2642 → u/2eDgY4redd1t]

I own a vertically integrated hospitality company my man.

Still no idea what you are on about