{"id":90954,"date":"2025-07-25T08:54:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T08:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/90954\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T08:54:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T08:54:13","slug":"sysco-opens-second-to-go-store-in-houston-for-local-restaurants-small-businesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/90954\/","title":{"rendered":"Sysco opens second to-go store in Houston for local restaurants, small businesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sysco Corporation, a global food distribution company, has opened a second Sysco To Go store near Houston\u2019s medical center. The retail store sells a diverse range of items to food truck vendors, local restaurants, small businesses and caterers in the area.<\/p>\n<p><b>In their own words<\/b><\/p>\n<p>At the store\u2019s July 23 ribbon-cutting ceremony, Lindsay Hirsch, Sysco\u2019s head of growth strategy, planning and design, talked about the company\u2019s mission.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur purpose is simple, yet very powerful\u2013to connect to the world, to share food and to care for one another,\u201d Hirsch said. \u201cAnd that\u2019s what Sysco To Go is all about, offering quality, convenience and flexibility to those serving food.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Houston Council member Martha Castex-Tatum also attended the event and said a few words about the grand opening. As the chair of Houston\u2019s economic development committee, Castex-Tatum said the store is an investment in the city\u2019s culinary economy.<\/p>\n<p>She said Sysco To Go provides access to high-quality food service products in large orders, which is a huge benefit to minority businesses in the community.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSysco To Go is not just a store, it\u2019s a resource hub for our local restaurants, caterers and food entrepreneurs,\u201d Castex-Tatum said.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"At Sysco's grand opening, attendees could try free samples, sign up for a free membership and win prizes in raffles and giveaways before the ribbon cutting.\u00a0( Roo Moody\/Community Impact)\" src=\"https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/uploads\/images\/2025\/07\/24\/377284.jpg\" class=\"include_body\" onerror=\"this.src=\"\/>At Sysco&#8217;s grand opening, attendees could try free samples, sign up for a free membership and win prizes in raffles and giveaways before the ribbon cutting. (Roo Moody\/Community Impact)<\/p>\n<p><b>What\u2019s special about it?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Houston is home to Sysco\u2019s corporate headquarters and is known for its diverse restaurant community. According to Hirsch, one reason for opening another location was to make sure the company was meeting the needs of all the different restaurant types.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe really want to make sure that the assortment and the products reflect what our customers need,\u201d Hirsch said.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sysco partners and distributors set up tables to pass out and advertise samples at the ribbon-cutting ceremony.\u00a0(Roo Moody\/Community Impact)\" src=\"https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/uploads\/images\/2025\/07\/24\/377285.jpg\" class=\"include_body\" onerror=\"this.src=\"\/>Sysco partners and distributors set up tables to pass out and advertise samples at the ribbon-cutting ceremony. (Roo Moody\/Community Impact)<\/p>\n<p>In the new Sysco To Go store, two aisles are dedicated to Latin cuisine and include a wide selection of spices, as well as a Hispanic cookware section. Hirsch said the store also sells a diverse offering of Halal meat, which is meat that is allowed under Islamic law, as Houston has a high population of people who maintain a Halal diet.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sysco Corporation, a global food distribution company, has opened a second Sysco To Go store near Houston\u2019s medical&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":90955,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[28577,45445,60460,47387,4345,18293,60458,358,60459,3187],"class_list":{"0":"post-90954","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-community-impact","9":"tag-food-distribution","10":"tag-food-to-go","11":"tag-grocery-store","12":"tag-houston","13":"tag-near-me","14":"tag-sysco","15":"tag-texas","16":"tag-to-go-store","17":"tag-tx"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}