Gus.Fring

Thanks, everyone - our catering business is in Minneapolis, so we have access to Restaurant Depot, Sysco, PFG, & US Foods. I continue to be surprised by how unresponsive the big guys are to IROs like me. I have to call and call. Just seems like they'd want me to place online orders so that they didn't have to send a person 'round. Thing is, when I look at prices in their online portals, there's no way to know if they are fair - and they change all the time.

The thing is, I can't find an easy way to compare the exact items - the same products seem to be named different things across distributors, or have different pack sizes, configurations, etc. etc. so that the price for the same case of food can vary pretty dramatically. Has anyone created a way to systematically track their purchases to "keep the supplier honest"?

I have this nagging feeling that I'm not getting fair prices from my restaurant suppliers. Is there any easy way to compare prices on the same items across different distributors?