民主党参议员伊丽莎白·沃伦（马萨诸塞州）周日警告不要让西斯科与Restaurant Depot合并，认为这可能导致餐厅价格上涨。
Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren (Mass.) on Sunday warned against a merger between Sysco and Restaurant Depot, arguing it could lead to an increase in restaurant prices.
“小心：去你喜欢的餐厅吃饭可能会变得更贵，”沃伦在社交平台X上写道。“特朗普政府可能批准西斯科与Restaurant Depot的合并 — — 这将威胁小企业的供应成本上升，并导致你的价格上涨。”沃伦是参议院银行、住房和城市事务委员会的最高民主党人，如果她的党在11月夺得上院控制权，她有望担任该委员会主席。
“Watch out: going out to eat at your favorite restaurant could become even more expensive,” Warren wrote on the social platform X. “The Trump administration might approve a merger between Sysco and Restaurant Depot — threatening higher supply costs for small businesses and higher prices for you.”Warren is the top Democrat on the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, and she is in line to chair the panel if her party takes control of the upper chamber in November.
西斯科是一家跨国食品分销商，3月份同意收购Restaurant Depot，后者向独立运营商供应食品。
Sysco, a multinational food distributor, agreed in March to purchase Restaurant Depot, which supplies food to independent operators.
根据这笔价值291亿美元的交易，Restaurant Depot股东将获得216亿美元现金收益和9150万股西斯科股份。两家公司预计将在2027财年第三季度完成交易。
Under the $29.1 billion deal, Restaurant Depot shareholders will receive $21.6 billion in cash proceeds and 91.5 million Sysco shares. The two companies anticipate closing by the third quarter of fiscal 2027.
两家公司官员3月份表示，该交易将使合并后的实体获得西斯科的高客流量客户群的访问权限，这些客户包括餐厅、医疗和教育设施以及体育场馆，以及Restaurant Group的独立餐厅和企业。
Officials from the two companies said in March that the deal would give the combined entity access to Sysco’s higher-volume customers, which include restaurants, healthcare and educational facilities and sports stadiums, and Restaurant Group’s independent restaurants and businesses.
根据联邦法律，司法部（DOJ）反托拉斯部门和联邦贸易委员会（FTC）负责审查并购是否存在反垄断问题。《国会山报》已联系司法部和FTC，就对西斯科-Restaurant Group并购的审查发表评论。
Under federal law, the Justice Department’s (DOJ) Antitrust Division and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) review mergers for antitrust concerns. The Hill has reached out to the DOJ and FTC for comment on the review of the Sysco-Restaurant Group merger.
Restaurant Group将作为西斯科内的独立业务运营。西斯科首席执行官凯文·霍里坎也坚称，其公司在完成交易后不会提高Restaurant Group的价格。
Restaurant Group would operate as a standalone business within Sysco. Kevin Hourican, the CEO of Sysco, has also insisted his company will not raise Restaurant Group’s prices upon closing the deal.
“如果我们这样做，将会损害Restaurant Depot的业务，”他在8月的一份声明中说道，指的是提价。“如果我们这样做，我们会失去市场份额。”霍里坎补充说，提价“没有经济激励”。
“It would harm the Restaurant Depot business if we did that,” he said in an August release, referencing raising prices. “We would lose share if we did that. Hourican added there “was no economic incentive” to raising prices.
劳工统计局（BLS）上周报告称，根据消费者物价指数测量的外出就餐食品价格，从8月到9月增长了0.2%。
Prices for food away from home, as measured by the consumer price index, increased by 0.2 percent from August to September, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported last week.
BLS称，上月外出就餐食品价格同比上涨3.5%，而居家食品的年度通胀率为1.8%。
The price of food away from home was up 3.5 percent year-over-year last month, while annual inflation for food at home was 1.8 percent, per the BLS.