LA & SF Specialty is pleased to announce the opening of a newly built distribution facility in the San Francisco Bay Area. The new 255,000 square foot facility is located at 31773 Hayman Street in Hayward, California. LA & SF Specialty plans to move all inventory and operations from the current facility in Union City, to the new facility by May 1, 2017. The Hayward facility is one of 4 distribution facilities in the Western United states for LA & SF Specialty which also operates facilities in Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and Phoenix.
The new distribution facility will allow LA & SF Specialty to better serve its Northern California customers by increasing capacity for handling an expansive product line of over 7,500 items. Products include a full line of fresh produce, three lines of liquid dairy including Straus Organic and Clover Sonoma GMO Free, eggs, cheeses, and an impressive line-up of local and artisanal specialty cheeses, salumi and charcuterie, in addition to an extensive list of groceries and other ingredients.
The need to build a new facility in the Bay Area was explained by Chris Charlesworth, Director at LA & SF Specialty, as a move to not only increase current capacity, but also to plan for future growth and innovative services for the company’s customers in Northern California. Mr. Charlesworth said, “As our customer base and product line has grown over the last few years, thanks to the incredible hard work, dedication, and expertise of our unbelievable operations and transportation teams, we were able to utilize our systems and processes to maximize our space and operations as efficiently as possible. But our continued growth and anticipated growth dictated the move to a larger facility with substantially more dock doors to increase receiving and loading efficiencies, in addition to more cooler space.”
About LA & SF Specialty:
We serve the most creative, passionate, and talented chefs in the world with on-time delivery of the freshest, most appropriate, high quality ingredients. For 32 years, LA & SF Specialty has carefully curated fine ingredients and the most unique, seasonally ripe, locally grown produce for our discerning customers in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Orange Country, San Diego, Phoenix, and Las Vegas. LA & SF Specialty leads the foodservice distribution industry in providing on-time delivery, high order fulfillment rates, an expansive product line, customized buying programs, a commitment to sustainability, consultative services, and customer service responsiveness.
Source: LA & SF Specialty