Wholesale Cheese Suppliers for Cafes, Restaurants and Cheese Boards

Commodity dairy and the cheese worth featuring

There is a real difference between dairy you buy on price and cheese you buy to put your name behind. The big food-service trucks move pallets of the former: block cheddar, shredded mozzarella, the tubs that keep a kitchen ticking. We stock the staples too, but they are not the reason a diner remembers a board.

The cheese worth featuring is at the other end of the shelf. A soft cheese ripe enough to run at room temperature. A washed rind with character. A blue that holds up against a sticky wine, an aged cheddar or pecorino with depth, a fresh chevre or buffalo mozzarella that tastes of the day it was made. These are the lines a cheesemonger, a wine bar or a serious deli is chosen for, gathered here in one place so you are not hunting them across three accounts.

Cheese for boards, menus and the deli case

Most of the cheese leaving here goes into a business. Cafes and restaurants build it into ploughman’s plates, toasties and the cheese course at the end of a meal. Wine bars lean on a tight board of three or four cheeses that travels from fridge to table in minutes. Caterers need volume for grazing tables that have to look generous across a long event, delis stock the wedges their regulars come back for, and pizzerias and bakeries get through mozzarella, ricotta and parmesan by the case.

Then there are the home buyers. Foodistribute runs as a B2B and B2C marketplace under one roof, so the host assembling a birthday grazing board orders from the identical catalogue a restaurant uses, with no trade account in the way.

Buying bulk cheese, and how it lands

Volume buyers are looked after here. A function caterer ordering wheels for a grazing table, or a pizzeria getting through mozzarella week after week, buys in the quantity the job needs rather than off a retail shelf. As bulk cheese suppliers we keep the case-and-wheel formats a busy kitchen reorders alongside the single wedges a deli sells one at a time.

Ordering is the easy part. Browse the cheese and dairy range on the online store and place the order there, or send it by email if that suits you better, then pay by credit card or direct debit. Competitive wholesale pricing sits against each product in the store, so you see where you stand before you commit, with no trade-only wall to climb first.

Foodistribute is based in Sydney, and from there we arrange delivery across the country. We can ship directly to Melbourne, Adelaide, Brisbane, the ACT, the Gold Coast, the Sunshine Coast and Newcastle, which covers you whether you want wholesale cheese suppliers in Sydney, wholesale cheese suppliers in Melbourne, or a specialty cheese supplier anywhere else in Australia. Cheese is perishable, so the soft, short-life lines are the ones to plan an order around, and the team can talk you through what travels best.

If the cheese you want is not listed, tell us. Sourcing products on request is part of how we work, so a particular washed rind or regional cheese a chef has set their heart on can be asked for. And if something is out of stock when you order, we offer an alternative or arrange a credit rather than leaving a hole in your board.

Behind the catalogue is a quarter-century of doing this. Foodistribute is the trading name of Reidistribute Pty Ltd, in specialty food supply since 1998, and Food Authority NSW registration.

Build a better board with Foodistribute

The cheese a customer actually remembers, the everyday dairy your kitchen runs on, and one account to keep it all coming. Open the cheese and dairy category to see what is in and order online, and when a board calls for a cheese you cannot find anywhere else, send the team a note and we will go looking.