Any other chefs here have reps tracking them down like an obsessed ex?
Any other chefs here have reps tracking them down like an obsessed ex?
by MileHighMikey
26 Comments
teleacs
stop ghosting me 😉 is crazy lol
SUBTLE_CUNTS
I have had that happen, and I have called their main customer service outlet to get tossed up the chain to someone who can tell the rep to fuck off. If I don’t get a satisfactory response or I am contacted in such a manner again I’ll tell the rep I am no longer interested in working with them. Reps work for you, not the other way around.
durrkit
There’s a very hot rep for a bakery in the area I’m in, and all the chefs around here take meetings with her, even when they don’t plan on ordering anything just because of how jaw dropping she is. But generally doesn’t everyone try to avoid reps if they can?
edc6996
I specifically don’t buy from US Foods or PFG cus their salesmen have been in so many times begging for my business and bothering me that I hate them and would never give them my money. 4 different PFG reps all came in saying they were my territory reps, none knew the others came and tried to get my business for themselves each explaining they were actually my rep. Fuck off
Peinecone
As a former Chef and now sales rep, I feel this. I try hard to not be that guy, because I never wanted to do business with people that operate like that.
Plank_710
That’s me. I’m the rep. Seafood rep actually so this hits close to home. I do sometimes pester chefs but the winky face is wild 😅😅
Not a bad price for halibut though
Nillionheart106
“what’s going on? You haven’t bought my scallops in two months?!” Sorry. Trying to support a business here. Money talks
shmooboorpoo
Yup. I currently have not one but TWO owners of a local mushroom grower hitting me up through FB messenger. I like their product but their prices don’t work for me where I’m at.
At this point, it’s harassment. Like how fucking dare you for creeping into my socials after I’ve already told you politely “no thank you”??!!
No-Panic-765
This post brought my twitch back
GhettoSauce
I had a chef who scheduled 3 reps from competing companies at the same time to pitch to him. He set the stage with 3 uncomfortable bar stools across from his main prep table with him standing and pacing. Intimidating as fuck.
It was a business bringing in millions per year, so those supplier contracts were golden. The Chosen Rep got to keep a close relationship with the chef. But any clingy, pushy stuff like that nonsense in the screenshot? Oof. He’d be playing with fire and potentially losing his company hundreds of thousands.
BoxOfDOG
This is how I feel I must come off to my reps when they keep ducking me on pickups
*I received 20 pounds of fudge icing Kelcy and we were charged for it, please send a fucking driver to pick it up or I am going to scream*
*40 pounds of pre-breaded calimari has been sitting in our freezer for a month Kelcy, for the love of god just take it off my hands*
tenehemia
Shortly after I took over running my last kitchen I had a Sysco rep come in. I told him in no uncertain terms that we were using USFoods and happy with them and there wasn’t anything I needed from him. That should’ve been it.
Except a couple weeks later I was talking something through with the owner and he comes in and interrupts me in the middle of a sentence to lay his sales pitch on me. I’ve never seen a rep doing anything that rude.
So I made it my mission to string him along forever. Over the next year whenever he’d come in I’d tell him all about what I was working on and say lots of “oh wow that sounds great” to his ideas before ultimately never spending a dime with Sysco. I’d ask for samples and just go overboard with kindness and always act happy when he’d come in. This guy thought for a year that I was *so close* to cracking and buying some of his frozen garbage for my scratch kitchen. Thanks for the free samples bud. The bartenders were happy to eat them.
JudithButlr
It was horrible when I was admin in an office too, the printer supply reps are fucking barbaric
Old_Employment_9241
The worst drug dealer ever
DirtRight9309
times is tough out here people 😂
No-Ideal-9879
Hahahaa hahaha 😂
llamabirds
Dude, we’ve literally had one ENTER our kitchen without permission for 3 weeks straight and our chef just keeps gaslighting him. At this point it’s so entertaining.
Daddyxkaitlyn
All the time my Sysco rep is the worst with it, always trying to sell me something and then he’ll tell me about a trip he’s gonna go on, how his wife is pregnant and shows me pics of his kids and will over stay his welcome when I’m trying to open the store, very annoying when I’m trying to work and he comes in every week to ask me if I need anything like dude I got your number, I order 2 times a week if I need something ILL CALL
YourAverageGod
Sysco reps and Car dealers:
Shrek1067
Every sales manager is harping down on the salespeople, restaurant sales are down so people are ordering less “trickling down the line”. Pretty soon the big suppliers will start laying off sales staff and combining accounts to the top sellers due to less demand
okayNowThrowItAway
That’s not even a good wholesale price on halibut!
ontariolandshark2
Tell them the number at which you can do business. “Hey I can consider an order if it’s 16 or less.” Best case they understand to leave you alone, different best case they can get you a crazy good deal.
BudyWolfe
I was once walking my dog and a rep was at a light and saw me. Caught my attention and immediately tried to sell me on using them over their competition…like dude. I’m off the clock walking my dog, I don’t have work for another 5 hours please leave me the FUCK alone
Danobing
In a different line of business but today I had a suppler call me to talk technical specs on something. At the end he’s like hey man, Ina a sales dude, can I get 3 mins of your time to pitch ya on what else we sell.
I appreciated the upfront nature and talked to him for about 10 mins. Ended up giving his name out for it.
blergtronica
u used to call me on my… halibut
thereisnodaionlyzuul
If you haven’t already just reply with “I’m good. I’l reach out when I’m ready to order from you. No need to follow up”
At the very least they know you do not want to talk to them anymore
If they then keep bothering you call the main # and switch reps.
26 Comments
stop ghosting me 😉 is crazy lol
I have had that happen, and I have called their main customer service outlet to get tossed up the chain to someone who can tell the rep to fuck off. If I don’t get a satisfactory response or I am contacted in such a manner again I’ll tell the rep I am no longer interested in working with them. Reps work for you, not the other way around.
There’s a very hot rep for a bakery in the area I’m in, and all the chefs around here take meetings with her, even when they don’t plan on ordering anything just because of how jaw dropping she is. But generally doesn’t everyone try to avoid reps if they can?
I specifically don’t buy from US Foods or PFG cus their salesmen have been in so many times begging for my business and bothering me that I hate them and would never give them my money. 4 different PFG reps all came in saying they were my territory reps, none knew the others came and tried to get my business for themselves each explaining they were actually my rep. Fuck off
As a former Chef and now sales rep, I feel this. I try hard to not be that guy, because I never wanted to do business with people that operate like that.
That’s me. I’m the rep. Seafood rep actually so this hits close to home.
I do sometimes pester chefs but the winky face is wild 😅😅
Not a bad price for halibut though
“what’s going on? You haven’t bought my scallops in two months?!”
Sorry. Trying to support a business here. Money talks
Yup. I currently have not one but TWO owners of a local mushroom grower hitting me up through FB messenger. I like their product but their prices don’t work for me where I’m at.
At this point, it’s harassment. Like how fucking dare you for creeping into my socials after I’ve already told you politely “no thank you”??!!
This post brought my twitch back
I had a chef who scheduled 3 reps from competing companies at the same time to pitch to him. He set the stage with 3 uncomfortable bar stools across from his main prep table with him standing and pacing. Intimidating as fuck.
It was a business bringing in millions per year, so those supplier contracts were golden. The Chosen Rep got to keep a close relationship with the chef. But any clingy, pushy stuff like that nonsense in the screenshot? Oof. He’d be playing with fire and potentially losing his company hundreds of thousands.
This is how I feel I must come off to my reps when they keep ducking me on pickups
*I received 20 pounds of fudge icing Kelcy and we were charged for it, please send a fucking driver to pick it up or I am going to scream*
*40 pounds of pre-breaded calimari has been sitting in our freezer for a month Kelcy, for the love of god just take it off my hands*
Shortly after I took over running my last kitchen I had a Sysco rep come in. I told him in no uncertain terms that we were using USFoods and happy with them and there wasn’t anything I needed from him. That should’ve been it.
Except a couple weeks later I was talking something through with the owner and he comes in and interrupts me in the middle of a sentence to lay his sales pitch on me. I’ve never seen a rep doing anything that rude.
So I made it my mission to string him along forever. Over the next year whenever he’d come in I’d tell him all about what I was working on and say lots of “oh wow that sounds great” to his ideas before ultimately never spending a dime with Sysco. I’d ask for samples and just go overboard with kindness and always act happy when he’d come in. This guy thought for a year that I was *so close* to cracking and buying some of his frozen garbage for my scratch kitchen. Thanks for the free samples bud. The bartenders were happy to eat them.
It was horrible when I was admin in an office too, the printer supply reps are fucking barbaric
The worst drug dealer ever
times is tough out here people 😂
Hahahaa hahaha 😂
Dude, we’ve literally had one ENTER our kitchen without permission for 3 weeks straight and our chef just keeps gaslighting him. At this point it’s so entertaining.
All the time my Sysco rep is the worst with it, always trying to sell me something and then he’ll tell me about a trip he’s gonna go on, how his wife is pregnant and shows me pics of his kids and will over stay his welcome when I’m trying to open the store, very annoying when I’m trying to work and he comes in every week to ask me if I need anything like dude I got your number, I order 2 times a week if I need something ILL CALL
Sysco reps and Car dealers:
Every sales manager is harping down on the salespeople, restaurant sales are down so people are ordering less “trickling down the line”. Pretty soon the big suppliers will start laying off sales staff and combining accounts to the top sellers due to less demand
That’s not even a good wholesale price on halibut!
Tell them the number at which you can do business. “Hey I can consider an order if it’s 16 or less.” Best case they understand to leave you alone, different best case they can get you a crazy good deal.
I was once walking my dog and a rep was at a light and saw me. Caught my attention and immediately tried to sell me on using them over their competition…like dude. I’m off the clock walking my dog, I don’t have work for another 5 hours please leave me the FUCK alone
In a different line of business but today I had a suppler call me to talk technical specs on something. At the end he’s like hey man, Ina a sales dude, can I get 3 mins of your time to pitch ya on what else we sell.
I appreciated the upfront nature and talked to him for about 10 mins. Ended up giving his name out for it.
u used to call me on my… halibut
If you haven’t already just reply with “I’m good. I’l reach out when I’m ready to order from you. No need to follow up”
At the very least they know you do not want to talk to them anymore
If they then keep bothering you call the main # and switch reps.