Team Four/Value 4 offers best of class purchasing, distribution, consulting, and marketing services.
We never charge our member customers a fee
Team Four/Value 4 has more than 200 years of experience in foodservice operations, distribution and manufacturing to deliver the best net cost of goods available to each member.
Our experience is the key to your success. We have experience in all area of the foodservice industry: restaurant & contract feeder operations, distribution, marketing, logistics, transportation, inventory control, e-commerce, finance, construction, and franchising.
The contracts and pricing that Team Four Foodservice is able to deliver would not be available to you individually or through your foodservice distributor. We are able to assure you that you will save money and add profit to your bottom line.
In addition, Team Four/Value 4 offers our members a portfolio of value-added services that you will use every day to help you operate your business at deeply discounted prices, saving you money and assuring your customers a favorable experience.
Our experience is the key to your success. We have experience in all area of the foodservice industry: restaurant & contract feeder operations, distribution, marketing, logistics, transportation, inventory control, e-commerce, finance, construction, and franchising.
The contracts and pricing that Team Four Foodservice is able to deliver would not be available to you individually or through your foodservice distributor. We are able to assure you that you will save money and add profit to your bottom line.
In addition, Team Four/Value 4 offers our members a portfolio of value-added services that you will use every day to help you operate your business at deeply discounted prices, saving you money and assuring your customers a favorable experience.
How we realize Savings
Volume Consolidation
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We are able to consolidate the volumes of all our members and leverage that volume with our manufacturer and distributor member assuring better costs. |
Nationwide Distributor Network
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We offer a nationwide distribution network. This allows you to grow your business across the country and still have a consistent distribution solution with negotiated markups. |
Flexibility
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We offer flexibility in how you participate with us. While we can offer the most value if your use our distribution network; we are able to negotiate contracts with the distributor of your choice or not get involved with your distribution at all. This flexibility allows to you control your business and still participate in the savings we can deliver to you. |
Negotiated Manufacturer Agreements
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We are experts in distribution and manufacturing. We can expose the inflated costs, hidden fees, unrealistic freight rates, and poor buying habits that are used to artificially increase your cost of goods. We have negotiated all the details with our distribution members. Our distribution members will offer aggressive markup schedules on true cost assuring you of the best cost of goods. We will audit our distribution members on a regular basis to assure that correct cost and markups are being used for accurate pricing. Food operator’s expenditures are highest on center of the plate. Most distributors will try to mark this category up on a percentage markup. We have negotiated aggressive cents per pound markups on your entire center of the plate items; fresh and frozen; to assure you of the lowest cost of goods on your highest volume product category. We negotiate aggressive manufacture agreements on the product categories that are most important to you. We are able to lower your costs on your highest volume items for substantial savings. The savings are more than you could get independently or through your distributor. Our manufacturer agreements are negotiated to give you the best possible cost of goods on “all” your items regardless of whether they are volume items for you or not. This saves you on the items that you many not pay attention to on a regular basis. |
Product Sourcing
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We can offer you the most value when you give us the specifications of the items you use and allow us to find the manufacturer that can meet those specifications. We are able to assure the quality of the product and deliver to you the best cost of goods. We search for the unique, specialty manufacturer members who are capable and willing to customize products for you. This allows you to differentiate your operation from your competition. We operate as your R&D department allowing you to spend more time running your operation. |
Value added services
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We offer services outside of the food, disposable, and supplies and equipment that you use in your operation. Our value added services are services that you use and spend money on every day. Our service providers will provide service you can rely on. Our deeply discounted agreements will save you money every day. |
No Long Term Agreements
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We show you the savings that you will realize before asking you to become a member. It doesn’t cost you anything to join, making it a no risk opportunity for you. All that we ask of you is that you fulfill your commitments assuring that both of us maintain our credibility with our manufacturer and distributor members. |
You have nothing to lose except high costs
Our Message to America
The last few weeks have been a big challenge to all of us personally. Many of us have lost loved ones to COVID-19 and the pain of loss is raw and still dominates every hour of the day. Our deepest sympathies go out to you who are suffering loss. To those who are fighting the disease in a Hospital, Nursing Home or at home, our healing prayers go out to you and your families. We want to salute the heroes – the doctors, the nurses, the orderlies – all the Hospital and Nursing Home staff members who are putting in long hours to provide care and save lives. Let’s not forget the other people who are providing essential services behind-the scenes – the food, pharmacy and medical supply workers and the truck drivers and warehouse staffs and grocery store and pharmacy personnel who show up every day to keep our country supplied at risk to their own health. First Responders, we cheer you as you enforce our laws, take emergency calls and continue to protect and save lives – as you do every working day of your lives.
To our brave men and women who wear the uniforms of our country – whether you are stationed here or in a faraway land – we salute you! A large part of our country has been shut down – our children are not in school – some are missing proms, graduations, and school and youth sports; stores and malls are closed; restaurants are operating with limited services; some of us can work from home, others of us have seen our jobs eliminated or our companies closed. Visiting with family and friends has been reduced to seeing them on Facetime or Zoom – these drastic changes have been a shock to our very being. You are all heroes, too – your sacrifices matter.
As our country slowly wakes – school doors and park gates are beginning to open, business lights are coming back on, the spirit that is born in all of us will be rekindled. We are all Americans – whether we were born in this wonderful country or another – we are part of the fabric of our nation. We will rise, we will honor those whose lives were lost, we will go back to work or we will find a new job, we will teach our children and we will never take anything for granted again!
To try to help out those who will be looking for a new job and need some help – we are making $5,000 donations each to Howard County (Maryland) Food Bank and to Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church Food Pantry in Connecticut. We would like to ask every company in the foodservice business – companies that have not already contributed to those in need – to join us by selecting an organization in your community and making a donation to help those in need to get back on their feet.
God Bless You and America!
The Staff of Team Four Foodservice/Value 4
To our brave men and women who wear the uniforms of our country – whether you are stationed here or in a faraway land – we salute you! A large part of our country has been shut down – our children are not in school – some are missing proms, graduations, and school and youth sports; stores and malls are closed; restaurants are operating with limited services; some of us can work from home, others of us have seen our jobs eliminated or our companies closed. Visiting with family and friends has been reduced to seeing them on Facetime or Zoom – these drastic changes have been a shock to our very being. You are all heroes, too – your sacrifices matter.
As our country slowly wakes – school doors and park gates are beginning to open, business lights are coming back on, the spirit that is born in all of us will be rekindled. We are all Americans – whether we were born in this wonderful country or another – we are part of the fabric of our nation. We will rise, we will honor those whose lives were lost, we will go back to work or we will find a new job, we will teach our children and we will never take anything for granted again!
To try to help out those who will be looking for a new job and need some help – we are making $5,000 donations each to Howard County (Maryland) Food Bank and to Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church Food Pantry in Connecticut. We would like to ask every company in the foodservice business – companies that have not already contributed to those in need – to join us by selecting an organization in your community and making a donation to help those in need to get back on their feet.
God Bless You and America!
The Staff of Team Four Foodservice/Value 4