Subway and Arby’s Sauces Come From the Same Factory

This is a cheesecake from Cisco, a food distributor that supplies food to over 400,000 restaurants across America.

Here's the thing. Cisco sells this, but it doesn't make it. Cheesecake Factory does.

The Cheesecake Factory doesn't just sell cheesecake in its own restaurants. For years, it also manufactured cheesecake in its own factory and sold them to Cisco.

Since competitors didn't want to put a rival's restaurant's name on their menu, Cisco relabeled the cheesecake under its own private brand, Cisco Supreme, and sold it to restaurants that way instead.

This isn't just cheesecake. It happens with sauce too. Go to a grocery store, grab a bottle of Subway's sweet onion teriyaki sauce.

Now grab a bottle of Arby's sauce. Totally different restaurants, two totally different brands, made in the exact same factory by the exact same company,

called T Marzetti. And Marzetti doesn't just do this for Subway and Arby's. They do it for a long list of other restaurant chains too.

So, the next time a restaurant brags about its secret sauce or a signature dessert, remember, the brand on the bottle isn't always the company that makes what's inside.

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