Here is a selection from QSR Magazine were Pizza Fusion founders, Michael Gordon and Vaughan Lazar, share their sources.

Lazar: They’re trying. Some of them are trying, but they’re doing it with no direction. They see the word “organic” on something and they bring it in house. I can remember when Michael and I first opened the store we needed organic boneless breast chicken. They delivered three cases of complete full-boned chicken. It was really a struggle in the beginning to find the right products.

That’s why we went with Cheney Brothers. We left Sysco and went with Cheney Brothers because they got it. They took our product list, got us what we wanted. They didn’t try to sell us things that we didn’t need. We found that a lot of the other mainline distributors down here were like, “Uh, we don’t have organic olive oil, but how about this one?” That didn’t really work for us.

[Cheney Brothers] stepped up to the plate and have done everything we’ve asked of them. Any new products we find and bring to them, if it’s feasible to bring on board, they will. Obviously, the more stores we have, it becomes a lot easier.

We’re also a part of the UniPro Network, which is a nationwide network of distributors like Cheney Brothers. Part of being a part of that network is they have to pick up our product list product for product so we’ve already established a countrywide distribution solution.