The newly opened Restaurant Depot in Baton Rouge is a restaurateur’s heaven.
As 225 Dine reports, the high ceilings of the warehouse give way to stacks of blue and yellow shelves holding all the food and cooking supplies you could imagine.
Think Sam’s Club, except exclusively for those with a resale certificate.
225 Dine followed Christina Cox, owner of The Blue Rose Café & Bakery, as she made her first visit to the store that opened on Commercial Avenue off O’Neal Lane earlier this month.
Cox says usually gets her products from wholesalers like Sysco or S&W Wholesale, but she has been a regular shopper at Restaurant Depot’s New Orleans location, too.
Cox says the Restaurant Depot’s prices can’t be beat, and proves it with price lists for comparison. In the restaurant industry, a little bit of savings for owners can go a long way.
“It’s amazing how much of a difference the prices will make,” Cox says. “As a restaurant, if you have to go up on the prices even a little bit, people will start getting mad and hating, but sometimes it’s impossible to keep the prices the same.”
The refrigerated section of Restaurant Depot, where Cox loves that she can look through and select her own produce, is so cold, that blue jackets are hung outside the entrance for customers to wear once inside.
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