Restaurant Depot Converting Independents
to Cash and Carry

Because of consolidation among food distributors, a frequently heard complaint among independent restaurateurs is that suppliers are forcing them to schedule fewer deliveries with higher minimum orders. Restaurant Depot, the USA's leading wholesale cash and carry foodservice supplier, offers independents an attractive alternative. Its warehouses are open seven days a week, and guarantee foodservice operators a 10 to 25% savings on a broadrange of items.

At Restaurant Depot, however, convenient business hours and low prices are just the beginning. One-stop shopping attracts more than 75,000 restaurateurs and caterers weekly to Restaurant Depot's twenty-two locations in California, Florida, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, NewYork Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. In California, Restaurant Depot currently serves foodservice operators from its warehouses in San Diego, Fountain Valley, Culver City, Van Nuys and Oakland. Late this year another Restaurant Depot will open in San Francisco, and more openings are planned for California in 2001.

In addition to its vast array of dry groceries; beverages; fresh produce, meat, poultry and dairy products; frozen food; paper products and cleaningsupplies, this warehouse operation, which is only open to licensed foodservice operators, stocks more than 1,800 items in commercial equipment and supplies for front and back of house. In fact, SEFA, an alliance of premier foodservice equipment and supply dealers, selected Restaurant Depot as its 1999 Award recipient based on the company's outstanding support of SEFA manufacturers and its leadership in the foodservice supply industry.

Restaurant Depot's growing market share among the nation's restaurant suppliers has been built on the foundation of fair prices, selection and service. With each of Restaurant Depot's California locations experiencing annual double-digit sales growth, you can be sure that they are serving up this winning combination in good measure.