How to order from Gordon Food Service for foodservice and c-stores

Gordon Food Service (GFS) is a major broadline foodservice distributor, and for stores with a kitchen, a deli, or a hot-food program, it’s often the backbone of the food order. Ordering from GFS is straightforward; the leverage, again, is in comparing it against the rest of your suppliers.

Foodservice buying has the same blind spot

Operators running food alongside retail buy from a broadliner like GFS plus produce, meat, beverage, and specialty suppliers. Each channel shows only its own prices, and the shared lines — oils, dairy, packaging, beverages — move in price constantly. Without a per-unit view across suppliers, the order lands wherever ordering is easiest, not where the food cost is lowest.

Food cost lives and dies on current prices

For anyone costing recipes, stale supplier prices quietly wreck the math: when butter or oil jumps and the menu price holds, the margin erodes invisibly. The only defense is current, comparable costs flowing into your recipe and price math.

Bring GFS into one cart — and into your margins

Putting GFS into StoreQueue with your other suppliers means one catalog, one cart split correctly per supplier, live per-unit comparison, and — because ordering and the back office share data — costs that feed your price book and recipe costing automatically. Keep your GFS account and terms; gain the ability to see every food line against every supplier, and to know what a cost jump did to the margin the week it happened, not at tax time.