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Mr. Checkout is a national association of independent wagon-jobbers, foodservice distributors and full-line distributors. We distribute product to approximately 155,000 independent stores around the country and are always seeking the next hot new product. If you have a product, we want to hear from you!

How to Sell Your Product into Jake’s Finer Foods

Google “how to sell to Jake’s Finer Foods” and you’ll find that submitting a product through their site is the first step. This might not be a bad option if you’re ready for a very long review and sales cycle. However, if you’re not prepared for how the company operates, there are plenty of potential pitfalls to submitting a product early as you may only have one chance.

Jake’s Finer Foods was established as early as 1946 by Kervin ‘Jake’ Jacob. He started his business by selling farm-fresh eggs and providing door-to-door services. He later proceeded to acquire some foodservice companies. Although he wasn’t entirely successful at the start of his career, he continued to work hard. He included some foodservice products in his line that finally set him up as a successful food distributor.

Presently, Jake’s Finer Foods, named after the owner, is a family-owned and operated food service company that distributes quality food, outstanding food services, and customized solutions to its customers. The food company supplies food and food products to restaurants and cafeterias throughout East Texas and Western Louisiana.

This family-owned company is devoted to glorying God through its business and also providing excellent food, food supplies, and food services to its customers. As a company that wishes to expand and broaden its horizon, they seamlessly fuse Teamwork, Integrity, and Accountability to improve the quality of their services. In conjunction with this, Jake’s Finer Food has established itself as a team-focused organization that adopts Respect and Professionalism as its core values. The company continues to maintain the motto of its founder that says, ‘’Dreams really can come true when your values include commitment, service and a good day’s work.’’

Service

Jake’s Finer Foods is committed to delivering food and food services that are quite exceptional and above the norm. The company sources products all over the world; they also pay attention to locally produced food. Reaching for the ultimate satisfaction of customers, the products grown and procured from different places are sampled and tested in Jake’s Culinary Centre. The company specializes in the provision of over 10,000 food products.

A few of the products include Appetizers, Baking Ingredients, Biscuit, Cereal, Cookies, Meat, Pizza, Pepper, Pasta, Organic Food, Dessert, Salad, Sausages, Potatoes, Fresh produce, and any other food products you can imagine. Jake’s Finer Foods offer services to various industries encompassing Independent Restaurants, Retail Food Service, Retail grocery, Caterers, K-12 Schools, Day-care, Hospital, corporate cafeteria, and Multi-unit chains.

The organization combines experience with innovation when serving customers; they provide tailored solutions to suit each customer’s needs. One of the many solutions is the Gourmet Ranch. It was founded in 2000 and concentrates on freshly-cut pork and chicken products, newly-ground beef, and specially-cut aged steaks.

Storage 

The fulfillment and satisfaction of customer’s needs is the goal of Jake’s Finer Foods. To achieve this, the company has emphasized the timely delivery of fresh and quality goods. The organization possesses an environmentally safe 230,000 square feet warehouse coupled with modern technology and energy-saving facilities.

Also, all food items are stored at the ideal temperature and inspected from time to time. The food storage processes adopted by the company permits the efficient distribution of over 10,000 food products. The state-of-the-art facility provided by the company ensures the delivery of fresh and ripe goods.

Distribution

The organization is dedicated to providing quality, service, and solutions to its customers in the best form possible. This is why you can be sure to see a Jake’s Finer Foods trailer on the highway in Texas.

Although the firm is headquartered in Houston, services are made available to San Antonio, Dallas-Ft Worth Metroplex, South Texas Valley, Western Louisiana, and Austin Hill County. The trailers are furnished with multi-temperature refrigerator units. Therefore frozen, dry, and refrigerated products are delivered concomitantly.

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Working with Foodservice Distributors

Every year, more people eat outside of their homes. This trend has led to a rising potential for food , beverage and seafood businesses to become foodservice industry suppliers. Restaurants, hotels, hospitals, retirement communities, nursing homes, military bases, prisons and leisure facilities are included in the foodservice sector and are often referred to as the HRI Trade (Hospitality, Restaurants and Institutions). Foodservice operators are aggressively pursuing a diverse supply of food and beverage goods and there is a rising appetite for local and unique food selections.

Many foodservice distributors can trace their roots back to the mid-1800s when they started as family owned companies. The trend has continued in the industry as new foodservice distributors have entered the market and some of the original companies have maintained their independent / family owned status.

There are different requirements for the foodservice trade than for grocery retail, especially with respect to packaging and labeling. Pack sizes are usually larger and labels that appeal to customers are not needed. In “me-too” items, foodservice operators have no interest. Your product needs to be distinguished from the competition. There are many ways of identifying a product; only a few concepts are packaging, convenience and a business tale. For example, there are many honey products on the market; by using more compact packaging, innovative recipes and sharing the unique story of how the business started, a new honey may be distinguished from the competition.

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The food industry firm, Technomics, estimated that approximately 225 million meals are eaten away from home each day in the United States. This includes both restaurant and non-commercial eating places. Americans can be very busy and at the same time social. Many Americans prefer to have at least one meal outside every day. It could be the lunch during work, or the breakfast at a restaurant opposite the office, or a late dinner with a friend at a nice place; it is a dominant culture in the country.

However, we know the names of these restaurants, we may know the popular chefs but the people who deliver food products the restaurants prepare are hardly known by us because they are always behind the scenes. These people are known as foodservice distributors.

A foodservice distributor works as an intermediary between manufacturers of food products and the foodservice operator. This could be a chef, foodservice director, food and beverage manager, and independent food preparation businesses operator owners. The foodservice distributor procures, stores, sells, and makes deliveries of food products, providing foodservice operators with access to items from a wide variety of manufacturers. Foodservice distributors purchase pallets and bulk inventory quantities that are broken down to case and sometimes unit quantities for the foodservice operator. Most foodservice operators purchase from a range of local, specialty, and broadline foodservice distributors on a regular basis which could be daily or weekly basis.

It would have been very difficult for restaurants to meet the nutritional needs of about 65% – 70% of Americans who eat outside every day if not for the job of foodservice distributors in the line. There are a lot of things to be concerned with in the running of a restaurant and it would be an enormous burden if restaurants go to manufacturers of food products to keep getting supplies which could be as frequent as daily or weekly. Someone has to be in the line meeting demands and getting the products across to the restaurants.

It should be clarified at this point that foodservice distributors don’t only distribute to restaurants, they also get food products to cafeterias, industrial caterers, and hospital and nursing homes.

Estimates by the International Foodservice Distributors Association reveal that foodservice distributors in the Unites States, as a daily average, deliver approximately 27 million cases of food and other products.

There are several foodservice companies and they may very well range in size from a one-truck operation to larger corporations. There are broadline foodservice distributor offers a wide array of products, while a system distributor stocks a narrow array of products for specific customers, such as restaurant chains. A broadline distributor may carry up to 15,000 different items for purchase and operate topnotch warehouse and transportation operations.

The average American who eats out has the cause to be grateful to foodservice distributors. The industry sector is projected to grow as more eating places are looking at offering their customers more varieties.

Top 10 Foodservice Distributors

  • Cheney Brothers
  • Sysco Corp.
  • US Foods
  • McLane Foodservice
  • Performance Foodservice
  • Cooper-Booth Wholesale Co.
  • Gordon Food Service
  • DOT Foods
  • Reinhart Foodservice
  • The Martin-Brower Co.
  • Porky Products
  • Ben E. Keith Co.
  • Shamrock Foods Co.
  • KeHE Distributors
  • Food Services of America
  • Vistar Transportation
  • Golden State Foods
  • Lipari Foods
  • Buffalo Rock Co.
  • Merchants Foodservice
  • Blue Line Foodservice Distribution
  • Labatt Food Service
  • Systems Services of America
  • DPI Specialty Foods
  • Coastal Pacific Food Distributors
  • Dutch Valley Foods
  • Vendors Supply Inc.
  • Orion Food System
  • Jake’s Finer Foods

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Mr. Checkout is a national association of independent wagon-jobbers and full-line distributors. We distribute product to approximately 35,000 independent stores around the country and are always seeking the next hot new product. If you have a product, we want to hear from you!