Helping Sysco Drive Customer Performance and Impact

Total Value Delivered: $30 million
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Sysco®: At the heart of food and service

Insights

Sysco is a global leader in selling, marketing and distributing food and related products to customers who prepare meals away from home. This includes restaurants, healthcare and educational facilities, lodging establishments, entertainment venues, and more.

The company is committed to delivering success for its customers through industry-leading expertise, products and solutions. It is also committed to providing sustainably focused products, caring for people and communities and protecting the planet.

As an Ecolab distributor, Sysco partners with Ecolab to provide value to Sysco and Ecolab's customers through innovative solutions and expertise.

Actions

Working with Ecolab, Sysco deployed a suite of solutions aimed at increasing operational efficiencies, enhancing the guest experience, delivering a positive environmental impact and safeguarding workers.

Ecolab is helping Sysco advance these goals through high-quality, easy-to-use cleaning products under the Ecolab and Keystone Brands. These solutions help save water and energy and greatly reduce solid waste.

They include:

  • Keystone Unit Dose: A tablet-based cleaning program that simplifies the cleaning routine while delivering a professional-grade clean for guests. The system also features a 98.8% reduction in plastic packaging waste1 and contributes to significant water and energy savings during the cleaning process.
  • Keystone Ultimate: Delivers exceptional while helping to reduce the environmental impact of foodservice operations, in part through decreased wash times and less plastic packaging than traditional five-gallon plastic pails.
  • Keystone Solid Power™ XL: A highly concentrated machine warewashing detergent that allows for 50% more washes per capsule, reducing packaging waste by 33%.2
  • Keystone Sanitizing Wash 'n Walk™ No Rinse Floor Cleaner: A one-step floor cleaning and sanitizing solution that saves water and energy while increasing productivity.3

In addition, Ecolab supplies Sysco with a range of products that are Green Seal certified and meet U.S. EPA Safer Choice standards.

Outcomes

As a result of these initiatives, Sysco not only enhanced its business performance, it also delivered superior solutions to its customers, conserving substantial amounts of water and energy, and greatly reducing greenhouse gas emissions and waste.


  1. Reduction in plastic waste is an approximation based on customer use of all six Ecolab ReadyDose products, assuming use of one case of each product per month over 12 months, compared with the equivalent use of Ecolab liquid products, which is enabled by the smaller, lighter package size for solid tablets.
  2. When compared to Solid Power™ and Solid Power™ Plus.
  3. Based on the elimination of the floor rinsing step from instructions for recommended use as determined through Ecolab testing.
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Annual Savings
Water
1.5 billion
Energy
1.8 trillionbtus
Waste
5.7 million
Greenhouse Gases
100,000metric tonnes CO₂e
Total Value Delivered:
$30 million

The results in this case study are based on customer-specific data from January to December 2024 and are based on a comparison of our current Ecolab product selection versus typical baseline Ecolab products for this industry. The savings values are estimated by Ecolab based in part on assumptions and limitations intended to reflect typical industry practices.  Results may vary for other businesses based on factors and circumstances in their operations.

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