Chef’Store, a subsidiary of U.S. Foods Holding Corp. (NYSE: USFD) that entered the Triad market five months ago with a Winston-Salem store, is continuing its nationwide push with plans for two new stores in North Carolina and another due north of the Triad in Virginia.
The store caters to restaurateurs, caterers, food truck operators and other food service operators. It competes in some ways with warehouse stores such as Sam’s Club, Costco and B.J.’s Wholesale Club, but is much smaller and is open to the public seven days a week without requiring a membership.
The Rosemont, Illinois-based company this week said it will open new N.C. locations in Greenville and Fayetteville in late fall, along with a location in Roanoke, Virginia, about two hours north of Greensboro. T
he chain had previously only had operated in North Carolina in Charlotte until opening a location at 140 Stratford Commons Court in Winston-Salem in December 2022. That site is near a location in Galleria Shopping Center where a similar concept, ChefSmart, had operated from 2003 to 2018, according to the Winston-Salem Journal.
The store in Greenville will be at 901 Mall Drive, while the Fayetteville site will be at 505 Cross Creek Mall. The Roanoke site at 1372 Towne Square Blvd. will be Chef’Store’s second in Virginia, with the established site in Lynchburg.
The company has not disclosed any plans for elsewhere in the Triad. Winston-Salem has a Costco and a couple of Sam's Clubs, while Greensboro hosts a Costco and Sam's Club. Burlington is home to the region's long BJ's Wholesale Club.
Greensboro is home to a Restaurant Depot store of about 55,000-square feet that opened in 2018 off N.C. 68, near the interchange with Interstate 40. Restaurant Depot requires memberships, which are free to those who own or manage restaurants, coffee shops, bars, pizzerias, night clubs, caterers, deli or foodservice distributors, as well as nonprofits.
The Chef'Store sites will range between 20,000 and 23,500 square feet, offering a variety of products, including fresh produce, meat, dairy and beverages, as well as restaurant equipment, catering goods, janitorial supplies and other restaurant essentials.
With the new stores, US Foods will have more than 90 Chef’Store locations across 13 states as it continues its aggressive push to expand from the West Coast across the country. Chef’Stores are heavily concentrated on the West Coast in California, Oregon and Washington, but the retailer is also in Arizona, Nevada, Montana, Idaho, Utah, Texas, Oklahoma and South Carolina.
“Our CHEF’STORE locations provide an unmatched solution for restauranters, smaller foodservice operators and price-conscious community members to get the products they need when they need it, and we look forward to serving new and existing customers,” said Irfan Badibanga, president of CHEF’STORE, in announcing the stores.
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