Run a kitchen long enough and the supply side stops being about ingredients and starts being about accounts: one mob for the chocolate, another for the cheese, a third you ring when the Japanese pantry line runs out. Foodistribute exists to collapse that list. We are restaurant food suppliers who carry the everyday pantry staples and the specialty product on the same catalogue, so a cafe, restaurant, caterer or hotel can order the lot in one place, on one bill, with one team behind it. We have worked in specialty food since 1998, dispatching from our Sydney base to venues right across Australia.
That is the whole idea: a single standing order that covers what your kitchen runs through every week and the harder-to-find lines that usually send you hunting. You order online or by email, pay by credit card or direct debit, and the delivery lands together rather than in pieces from five different vans.
What you can order, and how it reaches your kitchen
The range is built for hospitality, not just for a grocery run. On one account you can stock cheese and dairy, chocolate and patisserie ingredients, coffee and tea, crackers and snacks, meat and seafood, frozen goods, oils and vinegars, bakery lines, and a deep Japanese and Asian pantry. Alongside those sit the everyday pantry and grocery staples, plus beverages and water, so the weekly essentials and the menu’s signature ingredients move on the same invoice. If a product you need is not listed, tell us and we will do our best to source it.
Delivery is Australia-wide. We dispatch from Sydney and reach Melbourne, Adelaide, Brisbane, Canberra, the Gold Coast, the Sunshine Coast and Newcastle, with free delivery on qualifying orders inside the Sydney metro. Pricing is competitive wholesale and shown against each product in the online shop, so you cost a menu from the same screen you order from. Ordering is straightforward: browse the categories, add to your cart, and place the order through the shop or by email to [email protected]. Stock runs out occasionally; when it does, we let you know before the truck leaves and offer an alternative or arrange a credit, rather than quietly shorting the delivery.
Foodistribute, the all-in-one hospitality supplier
Foodistribute is the trading name of Reidistribute Pty Ltd, a wholesale food distributor operating since 1998. More than 5,000 foodservice and retail customers order from us, and the work is overseen as a registered business with the NSW Food Authority. The model is deliberately broad: we run a single marketplace that serves both trade kitchens (B2B) and individual specialty buyers (B2C), which is why the same account can carry a hotel’s bulk standing order and a home cook’s box of baking chocolate. The business is Sydney-based, and that one location packs and ships every order, wherever in Australia it is going.
Twenty-five-plus years in specialty supply shows up in the ordinary moments: knowing which lines a venue tends to run short on before a long weekend, keeping the catalogue growing as kitchens ask for new product, and treating an out-of-stock as something to solve rather than ignore. Nearly all of our customers order again, and a good share of new accounts arrive on a recommendation from one that already does.
Specialty and all-in-one, not a broadline catalogue
It helps to know which kind of supplier you actually need. A broadline foodservice distributor moves the high-volume commodity staples a kitchen burns through, and does that well at scale. What it rarely carries is depth at the specialty end: the proper couverture, the artisan cheeses, the finishing oils and vinegars, the imported Japanese and Asian pantry goods, the patisserie ingredients a dessert section is built on. Foodistribute is built the other way around. We lead with that specialty and premium range, then put the pantry staples beside it so the whole order still ships together. You get the hard-to-source lines without losing the convenience of one supplier.
Who we supply, from a corner cafe to a hotel kitchen
Cafes and coffee roasters order coffee, tea and the patisserie ingredients behind the cabinet. Restaurants and hotel kitchens pull meat, seafood, dairy and specialty pantry lines through every service. Caterers and function teams lean on us for consistent supply; they can plan a job around, and cafeterias and canteens use the single-account convenience to keep a steady standing order simple. Cafe food suppliers and hospitality food suppliers usually specialise in one corner of that list; we are set up to cover the breadth.
Geography is no barrier to the range. Because we run as a B2B and B2C marketplace, an individual chasing a specialty cheese, a particular baking chocolate or a hard-to-find pantry item is just as welcome as a restaurant group.
Common questions about restaurant food suppliers
The largest national wholesalers are broadline distributors that move staple foodservice products to tens of thousands of venues at volume. Scale of that kind suits high-turnover commodity supply. It is a different job from carrying a deep specialty and premium catalogue, which is the gap Foodistribute is built to fill, so the “biggest” supplier and the right supplier for a specialty menu are often not the same name.
Most restaurants juggle a handful at once: a broadline distributor for everyday staples, a fresh-produce supplier, a meat or seafood specialist, and one or more specialty suppliers for chocolate, cheese, oils and imported pantry goods. The point of an all-in-one specialty supplier is to fold several of those specialty accounts back into a single order, so the kitchen manages fewer relationships and fewer invoices.
The terms are used interchangeably in foodservice. A “supplier” or “wholesaler” sources and sells the product; a “distributor” emphasises moving it to your door. In practice a wholesale food distributor does both, which is what Foodistribute does: we hold the specialty range and dispatch it Australia-wide from our Sydney base.
A full-range distributor supplies produce, meat, seafood, dairy, frozen goods, dry pantry staples, beverages and imported lines. Our catalogue is weighted toward the specialty end of that list, cheese and dairy, chocolate and patisserie, coffee and tea, oils and vinegars, Japanese and Asian pantry goods, meat and seafood, alongside the everyday pantry and grocery staples, so a kitchen can order both halves at once.
If your kitchen is tired of chasing the specialty product across three or four accounts, this is the part where it gets simpler. Set up a standing supply with us at foodistribute.com.au, or email [email protected] and we will get your venue ordering the whole list from one place.
Yes. We are well-established cafe food suppliers in Sydney and Melbourne, and restaurant food suppliers in Sydney and Melbourne, providing the specialty pantry stock required for high-volume service. As cafe food suppliers in Melbourne and restaurant food suppliers in Melbourne, we supply the same specialty range across Melbourne.
We are. Our range is built for volume, making us trusted catering food suppliers for teams managing events or function kitchens right across Australia.
We provide a full range of cafe supplies wholesale in Australia, including the premium chocolate, specialty cheese, and pantry lines that define a good menu, delivered to your door.
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Specialty ProductsFoodistribute sells products that are not readily available at any supermarkets! -
High QualityWe handpick the finest goods to ensure you’re always getting the best. All our produce is fresh and tasty! -
A Wide RangeWe supply everything you need, including cheeses, meat, crackers, pantry goods, beverages, frozen goods, oil, vinegar, coffee and tea. -
All-In-OneEnjoy the simplicity and convenience of one supplier and one bill for all your needs – perfect for cafes, restaurants, food service businesses, and individuals.
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