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US Foods
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US Foods is a national broadline distributor delivering food to restaurants, hospitals, and campuses. Sysco and Performance Food Group are the other national broadliners, and a restaurant on a route often has one truck that carries most of its SKUs.
Overview
US Foods is based in Rosemont, Illinois. Distribution centers run routes that deliver refrigerated, frozen, and dry goods to independent restaurants and to regional and national chains, and CHEF'STORE is the cash-and-carry outlet for operators who will pick up.
Sysco is the largest broadliner and Performance Food Group the other national peer. Local distributors still win accounts, but a chain contract that names US Foods for a region pulls a long list of restaurants onto one set of centers.
Switching distributors means new order guides, new pack sizes, and a different delivery window. That is why multi-year chain agreements and local route density matter more than the price of any single case of fries.
Competition footprint
Route density in a metro decides whether US Foods or Sysco is the practical daily supplier.
Chain distribution agreements award a region exclusively for the term.
CHEF'STORE is an alternative for independents who are not on a delivery account.
Consumer & business angle
An independent restaurant that misses its US Foods delivery misses a service, because the walk-in was stocked for that truck.
Chains that sign a primary distributor give that company the order guide for hundreds of kitchens.
What to watch
- Regional chain awards and any overlap of new distribution centers with Sysco or Performance Food Group.
- Contract terms that make a restaurant group exclusive to one broadliner.
Markets
foodservice distribution
Also known as: us foods
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