US Foods Expands Chef’Store Warehouse Grocery
US Foods Holding Corp. will open US Foods Chef’Store warehouse grocery locations in Merced and Santa Cruz, Calif., Helena, Mont., and Winston-Salem, N.C. The additional stores expand the reach of the Chef’Store offering, providing restaurant operators, food industry professionals, community groups and at-home chefs a warehouse-style retail solution to quickly stock up or replenish ingredients by the case and in individual quantities.
The Merced and Santa Cruz stores will join 15 existing Chef’Store warehouse grocery locations across California. The Merced store will be will offer its customers nearly 19,000-square-feet of shopping space. Both Santa Cruz and Merced stores are scheduled to open in fall 2022. The Santa Cruz store will offer more than 23,000-square-feet for its customers.
The Helena store will bring its third Chef’Store location to the state of Montana, joining existing locations in Kalispell and Missoula. Opening in early 2023, the new Helena Chef’Store will offer 20,000 square feet of shopping space.
The Winston-Salem store will be the second Chef’Store location in North Carolina. Set to open in December 2022, the new Winston-Salem location will boast 23,500 square feet of shopping space.
“The new Chef’Store will offer foodservice operators across Northern California, Montana and North Carolina a new and convenient retail location for purchasing their much-needed food and supplies,” said John Mathews, vice president of sales and marketing for Chef’Store . “Merced, Santa Cruz, Helena, and Winston-Salem have a growing community of restaurant owners and culinary professionals. Chef’Store is excited to help serve their needs with thousands of restaurant-quality products at competitive prices.”
This year, Chef’Store announced the opening of three stores in Visalia, Calif., Lynchburg, Va., and Spartanburg, S.C. With more than 80 locations across 13 states, Chef’Store offers thousands of restaurant-quality products at competitive prices, including fresh meat, produce, dairy, deli items and frozen seafood to industry professionals and home chefs alike. Customers can also shop for a wide range of cookware, beverages, catering essentials, janitorial supplies and other restaurant essentials.
Chef’Store is open to the public seven days a week and no membership is required.
US Foods acquired Smart Foodservice Warehouse stores in April 2020 to accelerate growth and its footprint in the cash and carry market to provide an omni-channel experience to more customers. The company rebranded all Smart Foodservice Warehouse stores to US Foods Chef’Store in February 2021. With the addition of the four new locations, US Foods will have 87 Chef’Store locations across the continental United States.
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