In the upcoming September issue of Refrigerated & Frozen Foods, we highlight the pandemic pivots made by Sysco and US Foods in 2020 due to COVID-19 and its effect on foodservice clients like restaurants, hotels, caterers, stadiums, and other volume venues.
While putting that story together, we also had a chance to speak to another foodservice distribution giant, Golden State Foods (GSF) and its Chairman and CEO, Mark Wetterau. GSF was started in 1947, and today, it’s a $5 billion company with 6,000 employees, and is one of the foodservice industry’s largest diversified suppliers. GSF serves more than 125,000 restaurants in approximately 40 countries on five continents, and controls its cold supply chain, processing and distributing its own protein, dairy, liquid and produce products, and delivering them to customers via its fleet of temperature-controlled trucks. Here, Wetterau details GSF’s own pandemic pivots to help keep business going in 2020.