Originally Posted by
guidospizza
Hi,
What's bothering me is that disgusting egg powder being used for the buffet breakfast scrambled eggs at most properties.
How do you know these are "powdered" eggs? At most low-end chain properties (this would include FF, SHS and competitors like Hampton, Holiday Inn Express etc.) the eggs are usually these discs either served plain or wrapped around a cheese or meat filling (a.k.a. "omelette") that you serve yourself with tongs. These are obviously pre-made and are just heated on-site rather than cooked as most of the low-end properties do not have a full food prep facility, much less a cook.
Even at higher end properties with a full kitchen, the scrambled eggs may well be cooked on site but will be from a pre-mix from a carton. This is almost universal in the industry as the pre-mix egg solution has a longer shelf life both before and after cooking and won't go bad on a buffet as quickly. You should peruse the Sysco catalog for all kinds of egg options for institutional kitchens.
If you want your eggs freshly cracked from a shell, order them fried (as I do

).