How can restaurants have fresh food every week all year long? Where does it come from?

Question

How is fresh food not in season locally always available? How sit is processed and sent off across the world so quickly and with such consistency?

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Answer 1

The southern hemisphere’s seasons are opposite of the northern’s.

For example during the spring and summer asparagus is grown in California and Mexico. During the fall and winter production switches to Peru.

Restaurants receive deliveries from their produce companies between 6-7 days a week and the produce companies receive deliveries from their suppliers at about the same cadence.

Frighteningly enough most major cities only have 2-3 days worth of food on hand at anyone time. That’s why the highways are full of semi trucks night and day seven days a week and railroad workers are pushed to such extremes.