I want to go home with them (tell me your most creative guess on what they are doing with that many eggs)
[Bulk Buys]User deleted comment
3mo
Asian dude behind me in line last week took advantage of the $8 off pork shoulders. He had 40 of them, and I believe they’re double packed so 80 total. Figure he must be a restaurant owner and I’ll assume he was having a special on pork that week!
I was just thinking, most Chinese takeout place rarely if ever run specials. Sure they have standard deals on their menu like "Lunch Specials" or Orders above $X amount get a free order of egg rolls.
Just never saw a weekly special on "Pork Fried Rice."
They will just freeze them and use as needed. No need to mark down your prices because you saved a little on food cost lol.
My ‘ol man back in the early ’90s bought $75k in jumbo shrimp for the restaurant cause the Globe Seafood rep. said they were having a sale. He had an extra walk-in freezer installed specifically for that purpose. You could sit on the stacked boxes like a frozen throne. Ultimately it was a multi year use purchase that was about cost averaging. If I remember correctly he said it was like a 50% off deal. He made the seafood distributor a crazy offer on top of the sale price and they figured he was B.S.ing until he called them to come get their cash, he liked to work off the books as much as possible.
PS. We never had any shrimp dish that was a daily special, “That shits too expensive to give away” he’d say. 🤣
How long does frozen shrimp stay good?
Frozen food lasts insanely long
Properly* frozen food
Especially vacuum packed and then frozen. That stuff can last years
I can attest to that. I vacuum sealed a piece of salmon and ate it two years later and it was delicious with no freezer burn.
I like it when they ice glaze stuff. No freezer burn.
USDA says indefinitely but the flavor and texture will change.
3 to 12 months for best quality relating to shellfish.
At some point someone at this restaurant received from very safe, but likely terrible, shrimp
very safe, but likely terrible, shrimp
Seems like every shrimp dish I order comes from the back of their 6 year old stockpile then.
Hi, I'll give you an address to a restaurant. Can you go there and eat a shrimp dish? This is for a research
"For a research," you say?
Well that sounds very official. How can I resist?
Do I have to eat there everyday find out the shelf life of the shrimp?
Depends on how well it's packed.
In a decent commercial freezer that goes down to -6f or -21C a lot longer than your home freezer at 0F -18C, those few extra degrees make a big difference.
I a special deep freezer that goes to -40F or 40C that is designed to keep high grade fish and meats indefinitely. However, the thing costs me like $5 in electricity a day and isn't all that big (and it has to be in an airconditioned room).
you know what we call that freezer in minnesota? warmer than outside.... i was at the college about 20 years ago. there was some rather large chest freezers in the hall by the medical department. the temp displays read something like -110. was a bit curious what they kep in those....
My wife was a research scientist and they had a bunch of -180C freezers that used liquid nitrogen in her lab. Cold as fuck.
Probably cell cultures. Used to work in a biochem lab and we kept our cultures in either a freezer like that or submerged in liquid nitrogen. Allows you to freeze them fast enough that you avoid ice crystals that would destroy the cells. If I remember correctly this is also how they store embryos for IVF.
Can you post a link to it? I’d like to get one.
I imagine quite a while. Probably as long as beef or pork I’d guess, which is at least 6-7 years
Idk when I cooked in a kitchen, "specials" meant main dishes that aren't a normal part of the menu that you can order for tonight only, not exactly that you get a cheap deal. It's a "special occasion". So yeah double a reason to not actually lower the price
My experience was always that special was an off menu dish(usually to try and get rid of product) and usually a better price than the normal dishes on the menu but definitely not true for every restaurant like you mentioned.
usually a better price than the normal dishes on the menu
I think our thinking was that if you priced the same as the normal dishes and called it "special" people feel like they're getting a deal, when in reality, the increased profit margin for the restaurant was the only win lol
A place in Boston had discounted lobster specials, but they charged per bowl of rice. I think my rice bill was higher than my lobster bill.
Impressed w your confidence. Discounted seafood makes me do a double take. Hopefully discounted means moving high volume not we are trying to get rid of old seafood.
But lobster is so good!
It was lobster season in the 1990s and the price was ridiculously low and my trust in the world was still ridiculously high.
Yeah, I would order that special every time.
I'm an Asian but not a restaurant owner. We also bought like 20 of those pork packs
What’s your plan for them?
Portion and freeze. Basically high quality pork loin for like 97cents/lb, great protein source for my family for months
Nice! I don’t have the ability to freeze that much. But I do buy lots of the butts and smoke them.
We may have bought an extra freezer from costco... the one with the drawers
Deep freeze chest freezer helps so much. Ours has paid for itself with specials. Frozen pizza sale? Score, in the bin!
Went there one day with wings on my list and they were cleaned out- I asked if they had more and they said a restaurant owner cleaned them out. A few months later I saw the guy doing it. Carefully stacking them on a flat pallet cart. Luckily I didn’t need any.
Food distributors jacked up the wings price during Super Bowl. Costco price stayed the same. Wings prices are back to normal now.
I did almost this exact thing for a 3 day baseball tournament. 28 butts total instead of 80, but I cooked them all on my smoker, shredded, and we served and ran out of meat with two games left on Sunday. The extra $$ in savings added to ever more fund raiser profits for the baseball team. Anyway... The End!
Breakfast restaurant would burn through them too
I used to cook in a 40 seat breakfast restaurant and I used about 2 cases of eggs a day so that cart looks like about a weeks worth, maybe less.
Ex-chef.
That's 2 to 4 days depending on the size of the breakfast restaurant's business.
Ex-Michelin Star Chef.
That’s 1 day depending on the size of the breakfast restaurant’s business.
Ex-Iron Chef.
These would be gone before the doors even opened depending on how often you got robbed.
Give me all your bacon and eggs.
Wait, wait. I'm worried what you just heard was, "Give me a lot of bacon and eggs." What I said was, "Give me all the bacon and eggs you have." Do you understand?
“I know what I’m about, son.”
That’s my first guess.
Or just any restaurant that uses eggs tbh lol
Or chinese bakery making egg tarts
Definitely go home with them in that case
I would think a restaurant could find a cheaper place to buy eggs in bulk.
I'm the production manager for a bakery. We buy our eggs from Costco and Walmart because they are cheaper than the wholesale places. Egg pricing is very volatile and can sometimes double in a week. You have to go where they are the cheapest.
I worked for a candy/snack vendor for a short while when I dropped out of uni, our job was selling boxed candy bars,sandwiches and other snacks you buy at service stations, anyway for candy bars from I think nestle it was cheaper for us to go buy them at a wholesaler club than ordering from the manufacturer themselves, I would go in every second Wednesday and clean them out.
Possibly couldn’t get eggs from supplier? They were running very low so this is what they had to do keep serving eggs.
If they didn’t pay their bill they can’t.
That, or a bakery that specializes in confections that require hundreds of egg whites.
My fam owns a Thai restaurant and we use a lot of eggs as well. Sometimes we buy a few cartons from Costco
Independently owned breakfast joints. Not creative but it's what it is most likely for.
worked at one. this would’ve lasted a day tops. it’s crazy how many eggs you go through
My father would go through 12 dozen eggs a day when he had his diner
That's 48 3-egg meals. Seems reasonable.
Also use eggs to batter French toast, make pancakes and waffles, etc.
And if they fried anything buttermilk and eggs is a common fry batter.
Was his name Gaston?
This is exactly where I went too, and I’m pretty sure I haven’t even seen the movie in 25+ years
gross
edit: for the downvoters Stu, a Gross is 144 Eggs
Damn that’s clever
Gross
Edit: I was hoping someone got the joke...12 dozen or 144 of something is called 1 gross. Learned this when I was a kid buying bottle rockets, they came in a gross pack or 144
1,800 eggs?
99.9% a last minute run because their regular supplier had an issue and couldn't deliver.
We just got off Royal Caribbean’s Harmony of the Seas, and we took a tour of the ship. They have two dudes who break eggs full time overnight. They go through 60,000 eggs a day for about 6,000 passengers and 2300 crew.
I'm on a cruise ship right now and took a "behind the scenes" tour this morning that included the main galley and a chat with their chef de cuisine. He said they go through 7-10 thousand eggs per day.
If so shout out to them for using actual eggs instead of powdered eggs or the, (gags) jug of eggs solution.
There is a breakfast joint in the stripmall nextdoor to the one i worked at. Back in my cashier days the owner came through with a flatbed like this every couple days. You get to know a lot of local business owners.
They go around comforting people in trying times.
"Can I offer you an egg...?" - Mantis
Doctor….Mantis Toboggan
You should see him feast
.... whoops! I dropped my monster condom that I use for my magnum dong.
Oh there's a lovely, kind & generous couple that donates to one pantry I help out at regularly. They bring massive amts of eggs, milk and butter. The lady told me one day that her husband grew up super poor, and for that reason, they made it their little, quiet mission to keep us generously stocked. They are the sweetest people EVER!
that’s is very sweet, but they were making a reference to this scene from iasip
It warms my heart how many people understood this reference.
I personally love the one person who didn’t, but got lots of upvotes anyway
Wait, wait. I'm worried what you just heard was, "Give me a lot of bacon and eggs." What I said was, "Give me all the bacon and eggs you have." Do you understand?
I was going to add "someone invited Ron Swanson for breakfast and wanted to be covered" but you got there first...
Thank you.
They’re attempting to make enough deviled eggs to keep me happy. They will not succeed.
Why is it I’d only eat 3 maybe 4 hard boiled eggs but cut them in half, take out the yokes, spice them up and put them back and I could eat basically an unlimited amount
I have no idea, but my mom makes the best deviled eggs and when she makes them they’ve never lasted more than a couple hours.
Yep, I’ll eat a tray of deviled eggs to every plain boiled egg and I like both. Guess all the mustard, mayo isn’t as filling.
I genuinely LOL at this comment. Made my rainy, gloomy day.
This looks alot like a bakery who had an order for eggs fall through and had to operate on short notice. That's my bet
My wife is a pastry chef and recently found costco has better prices than anywhere else in the area so shes buying eggs like this from Costco. I asked her how many eggs they use a week and it was 150 dozen. Looking at that cart its bout 30 5 dozen packs so looks like a weeks worth of eggs for a fair sized bakery!
Due to how Costco order their eggs, we were able to beat the spot price on eggs last year during the great shortage. Our price were lower than wholesale price to restaurants so the volume orders jumped overnight. We ended up have to put a limit on them.
Costco employee here.
They own Safeway and will resell these for double the price :)
User deleted comment
3mo
It's worse than that. Most grocery sores where I am are selling a dozen large eggs for $4.99. 24 eggs were $2.59 at my Costco last time I bought them a week or so ago. So that's nearly 4x the price per egg at every other grocery store. If you have a cheap source for egg cartons, a small grocery would absolutely benefit from buying them at Costco and repackaging them.
You jest, but there are grocery stores in Alaska that resell Costco products.
This is my guess some bodega if not for a restaurant.
They’d have to repackage into 1/2 or dozen boxes for a bodega as those are flats - I don’t see them doing that.
Starting a chicken farm. That's how it works right?
Yup! Plant those eggs about 2-3" deep in moist, dark soil. Water and weed regularly and they will be ready to harvest in 6-8 weeks.
Damn my chicken tenders take at least 10 weeks to sprout. I live at a northern latitude though.
Nope. Chickens come first, then the eggs.
So what came first, the chicken or the egg, is actually a conversation about evolution vs religion. If the chicken came first, it was created and therefore... God. If the egg came first, then it evolved overtime and eventually there was a chicken egg before the first chicken.
Repacking into random dozen containers and selling as farm fresh eggs on the side of the road
Oof 🤨
Oeuf*
œuf*
ps I love your pun! 😍
🥇
Yeah, but if this were in France, they wouldn’t need that whole cart, one egg would be un œuf.
I’m sure it’s happening somewhere. I know a guy that keeps bees. The bees cannot keep up with demand so he buys from anyone selling honey in bulk. He repackages into his bottles for a tidy profit. I tell him he’s more of a wholesaler than a beekeeper.
…more of a
wholesalercon artist than a beekeeper.
FTFY
I live in a place that gets overrun with “city” people in the fall looking for a quaint experience, if someone did this to them i’d only feel a little bit bad
Getting started on Easter Egg decorating.
Lots of small restaurant owners shop at Costco.
I used to sell phones in Costco but we had a guy who would come in and buy 80-100 rotisserie chickens. He owned a catering company and one of their staples was shredded chicken.
He would easily fill 3-4 carts full of chickens and have two employees helping him push them to the check out. We did the math. At $5 a chicken he could probably feed 3-4 people. Say 3 on the low end. And was probably charging minimum $10-$15 a plate. That guy had to have been making some good money with what he was saving getting those chickens from Costco.
He must have a lot of cheap labor to debone all them birds.
Costco sells cooked rotisserie chickens cheaper than raw ones.
Yup, and the business centre has them in 15 dozen cases. I usually get 6 of those at a time.
Somebody's car and house are going to be covered...
That was my first thought.
It's Gaston's cart.
Restaurant chef that didn't get their order of eggs that morning
National park wide Easter egg hunt
hope that parking lot has been repaved lately
It’s Lent. They’re for the Friday Fish Fry batter!
They’re returning all the eggs they borrowed from their next door neighbor over the years.
He's gonna ride on his enemies tonight and egg there houses
HowToBasic
Porn. For some reason its always porn.
I don’t even want to think about what the Costco Rule 34 is.
One. Big. Flan.
Restaurant. Egg drop soup.
Professional Baking, maybe cakes
I feel like I scrolled too long to find this comment. Idk how more people didn’t say baking.
Epic Easter egg hunting coming in about 6 weeks.
Cool hand Luke contest
Had to scroll way too long for this one.
Dammit I thought I was being original…shoulda known
Church breakfast fundraiser
They have Ron Swanson over for breakfast
Plant them hoping to grow chickens.. 😉
A math problem.
Getting ready to manufacture next year’s flu vaccines.
A chicken that no longer lays eggs buying eggs to trick her humans into letting her stick around
The parents of my daughter’s childhood friends would buy that many before Easter and literally invite all the kids from school and neighborhood over to dye eggs on an afternoon. Everyone brought home at least a dozen.
They’re going to crack them carefully, glue them back together and put them back in the packaging and then return them
To fill the grossest kiddie pool and host a wresting tournament.
They're trying to find the perfect dozen, and they will be returning all of the eggs that are not part of the perfect dozen, just to aggravate me and everyone else on this sub.
Egg bites
Maybe a diner or deli owner?
Getting revenge against a total douchebag
Pickling spree
Someone's house is getting fucked up...
Making one tray of perfect deviled eggs
The rest are for flukes
Confetti eggs for Easter
Someone's whole block will be decorated tonight /s
Baker. I used to go through sooo many eggs. Depending on their clientele size, I would imagine they go through this in a couple of weeks at most.
Take them to farmers market and label them organic, small batch artisanal eggs and sell them for $40 bucks a dozen :)
Deviled eggs for a family of four.
Putting them all in a single basket 🧺
That math problem from 3rd grade
Obviously a Guiness world record attempt.
Most likely longest time spent in a bathtub full of eggs. Current record is 17 days 3 hours and 22 minutes.
I would wish them good luck
Hydraulic Press VS 10,000 Eggs
I did that once: My company sponsored breakfast at Ronald McDonald house (for parents staying close by their sick kids) and we made 290 breakfast burritos. It was an awesome morning!
Reselling them.
Paul's Boutique. Egg man
Cooking eggs
He’s the math problem guy
Just ask them next time.
It’s funny how we are all shocked by a purchase like this, when we were never the intended audience for Costco when it started. What was meant for businesses and food service now sells 5lb bags of pretzels and cheap glizzies to Joe Average
They own a diner. Their order didn’t come in on time so they ran to Costco.
The neighbors gave them religious tracts instead of candy on Halloween. Now that they got their tax return, it is time for revenge.
You have a bunch of frozen chickens and needed eggs. You’re going to roll them down a large hill across a finish line. You’re going to finally prove, “which came first, the chicken or the egg?” - Sorry, that’s all I had.
Massive omelette.
It’s that dude who makes pasta and doubles his eggs
Settling an old score…
Chinese restaurant
They're having a weekend long orgy at the house, and they need to keep the kids busy.
You can’t make a tomlette without cracking a few Gregs
Breakfast place
That guy on tik tok that makes pasta and doubles his eggs every time
They are on the show "Is it cake?" This time it is not cake.
Bakery - need eggs for a variety of items
Bakery
Best guys is they have a donut shop
That one guy who makes pasta with a thousand eggs
Easter bunny, duh
Macarons
Posts that don't follow r/Costco subreddit rules MAY be subject to removal.
When applicable, please make sure that you're using a descriptive post title with product name(s) mentioned as it yields better subreddit search results. Including item number, price, and approximate location where found is also helpful. Thank you.
I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please contact the moderators of this subreddit if you have any questions or concerns.