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Top 25 Restaurant food distributors worldwide
RevenueBase identified 2,813 restaurant food distributors worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 145,591 professional contacts across them, including 39,210 with verified work emails and 0 with mobile numbers. The United States is the largest market and Sao Paulo the largest hub.
This list covers restaurant food distributors worldwide, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 17, 2026. Country and city lists for restaurant food distributors follow the table.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest restaurant food distributors worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 26,405 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Sysco is the global leader in selling, marketing and distributing food and related products to customers who prepare meals away from home.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 19,536 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “US Foods is one of America’s great food companies and a leading foodservice distributor, partnering with approximately restaurants and foodservice operators to help their…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 9,445 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “We’ve grown to become the largest family-operated broadline food service distributor in North America by upholding the same business approach since 1897-being passionately…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 6,885 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Performance Food Group is an industry leader and one of the largest food and foodservice distribution companies in North America with more than 150 locations in the U.S.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 3,427 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Le Groupe Pomona est aujourd'hui le leader de la distribution livrée de produits alimentaires et non alimentaires aux professionnels de la restauration et des commerces…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 3,402 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Performance Foodservice delivers more than food, we deliver partnership.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 2,361 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are committed to serving up the recipe for your success.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 1,870 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Reinhart Foodservice is part of Performance Foodservice and together we are one of the largest broadline foodservice distributors in the United States.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 1,850 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Since WebstaurantStore's start in 2004, we have worked hard to build an innovative, easy-to-use website that meets the purchasing needs of foodservice professionals throughout the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 1,574 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “At Golden State Foods, we’re proud to be one of the largest diversified suppliers in the foodservice industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 1,474 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Ben E.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 1,436 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Food Services of America (FSA) is one of the nation's largest broadline foodservice distributors, serving customers throughout the mid-west, west and Alaska from our regional…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 1,347 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The Chefs' Warehouse, North America's top specialty food distributor since 1985, offers over premium products to elite restaurants, hotels, and gourmet shops.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 1,273 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The SYGMA Network is dedicated to helping our customers succeed by exclusively offering our products and services to chain restaurants across the United States.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 1,207 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Our Vision To be our customers’ most valued and trusted business partner.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 1,139 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Edward Don & Company, is the nation’s leading distributor of foodservice equipment and supplies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 986 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “If you are looking for better prices on bigger stocks with higher quality choose Checkers Food Services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 962 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “PFD delivers an extensive range of fresh and frozen meat and seafood together with drygoods, paper products and cleaning solutions to the Foodservice Industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 914 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Headquartered in Warren, Michigan, Lipari Foods is a leading independent distributor built around global and specialty foods.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 885 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Our mission is to make it easy for everyone to enjoy chef quality ingredients.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 832 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “MARR è società leader in Italia nella distribuzione specializzata di prodotti alimentari alla ristorazione extra domestica (Foodservice).” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 826 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Clark Associates, a collective of dynamic companies and the core services that support them, leads the food service industry in equipment, supplies and service.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 796 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Baldor is one of the largest importers and distributors of fresh produce and specialty foods in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 771 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Swiss Chalet Fine Foods has provided food service professionals with unique, premium quality products from Europe and abroad.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 733 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Färska råvaror.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: restaurant food distributors. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names restaurant food distributors.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of restaurant food distributors, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name restaurant food distributors. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Restaurant food distributors worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 17, 2026Companies by employee count
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among restaurant food distributors, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- Coverage
- 16 countries, largest first: the United States, Brazil, Italy, the United Kingdom, France, Spain, Germany, Canada, Australia, Mexico and 6 more. Country and city lists for restaurant food distributors are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “restaurant food distributors”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names restaurant food distributors), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among restaurant food distributors, and records with no verified work email.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 39,210 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 17, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Restaurant food distributors by location
16 lists · largest firstEvery Restaurant food distributors list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
Countries
- Restaurant food distributors based in the United States945
- Restaurant food distributors based in Brazil337
- Restaurant food distributors based in Italy269
- Restaurant food distributors based in the United Kingdom213
- Restaurant food distributors based in France205
- Restaurant food distributors based in Spain160
- Restaurant food distributors based in Germany137
- Restaurant food distributors based in Canada133
- Restaurant food distributors based in Australia92
- Restaurant food distributors based in Mexico69
- Restaurant food distributors based in the United Arab Emirates61
- Restaurant food distributors based in the Netherlands59
- Restaurant food distributors based in Belgium44
- Restaurant food distributors based in Saudi Arabia32
- Restaurant food distributors based in Sweden30
- Restaurant food distributors based in South Africa27
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names restaurant food distributors, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many restaurant food distributors are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 2,813 restaurant food distributors worldwide as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
SYSCO, headquartered in Houston, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most restaurant food distributors?
The United States leads with 945 companies, followed by Brazil (337) and Italy (269). Every restaurant food distributors list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most restaurant food distributors?
Sao Paulo leads with 60 headquartered companies, followed by Dubai (38) and London (38).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 39,210 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 2,813 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 17, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.