Avendra is proud to recognize 90 suppliers for outstanding performance on its 2017 Meet the Truck audits

Avendra’s Meet the Truck audit program provides quality assurance throughout the supply chain and ensures that a wide range of requirements are met by Avendra approved suppliers. As part of the program, an Avendra Quality Assurance associate will coordinate a site visit at a customer location on a day when multiple deliveries are expected and conduct an audit at the time of delivery.

Avendra suppliers are rated on items such as order fulfillment, trailer load, product integrity, and overall performance. Contracted suppliers are not informed of the audit in advance. Suppliers who do not receive a perfect score on the audit are provided feedback to help ensure their continued improvement. Through quality assurance programs like this, Avendra is able to help guarantee that customers receive the correct products at a quality level that meets or exceeds their expectations.

In 2017, Avendra’s Quality Assurance team conducted 1,339 Meet the Truck audits at 262 customer locations. These audits were in addition to the 646 supplier audits conducted at Avendra manufacturers’ and distributors’ facilities. Avendra suppliers are considered among the best in the industry illustrated by the fact that of the 800-plus suppliers with which Avendra contracts, 257 received scores of 90 percent or better and 250 scored 95 percent or better.

To receive one of Avendra’s Meet the Truck awards, suppliers must participate in four or more Meet the Truck audits in a 12-month period and receive an average score of at least 95 percent. The 90 suppliers listed below are the very top performers and recipients of Avendra’s 2017 Meet the Truck Award.

Congratulations to all of Avendra’s 2017 Meet the Truck Award Recipients:

Allseas Fisheries
Alta-Dena Certified Dairy, LLC
Baldor Specialty Foods, Inc.
Bamford Produce Company Limited
Ben E. Keith – Dallas-Ft. Worth, TX
BK Specialty Foods
Cambridge Packing Co.
Charlie’s Produce
Chefs’ Warehouse – Maryland/DC
Chefs’ Warehouse – New York
Chefs’ Warehouse – Northern California
Chefs Warehouse Midwest
Coastal Sunbelt Produce Company
Costa Fruit & Produce Company
Dean Dairy Holdings, LLC dba TG Lee Dairy, LLC
Del Monte Meats (Monterey)
Del Monte Meats (Port Seafood)
Featherstone Foods, Inc.
FreshPoint-Atlanta
Freshpoint-Central Florida
FreshPoint-Dallas/Ft. Worth
Freshpoint-Northern California
FreshPoint-Raleigh
FreshPoint-South Florida
Freshpoint-Southern California
FreshPoint-Vancouver
FSA – Everett, WA
Get Fresh Sales, Inc.
GFS – British Columbia
GFS – Montreal

Gordon Food Service – Brighton, MI
Gordon Food Service – Sheperdsville, KY
Gordon Food Service – Springfield, OH
Gotham Seafood Corp.
Gourmet Foods International
Gourmet Foods International Lakeland
Gourmet Kitchen
Green Tree Packing/Tailfin
Greenleaf Produce
Halperns’ – Baltimore (Meat)
Halperns’ – Orlando (Meat)
Halperns’ – Parent (Meat)
Hardies Fresh Foods
Hector Larivee
Ideal Dairy
J. Ambrogi Foods
J.J. McDonnell & Co., Inc.
Keany Produce
Le Chef Bakery
Leonard Wholesale Fruit and Vegetable
Liberty Fruit
Louisiana Foods (DC)
Lusamerica Foods, Inc.
Macgregors Meat and Seafood, Ltd.
Martin Preferred Foods
North Star Seafood Inc.
Northern Illinois Milk
Piazza Produce
Prestige Farms (Fresh Poultry)
ProFish

Reinhart Foodservice- Louisiana
San Francisco Specialty Produce
Saputo Dairy Products Canada G.P.
Shamrock – Denver, CO
Soft Stuff Distributors, Inc.
Supreme Lobster and Seafood
Testa Produce
Tom Cat Bakery, Inc.
US Foods – Atlanta, GA
US Foods – Chicago, IL
US Foods – Fort Mill, SC
US Foods – Greensburg, PA
US Foods – Kansas
US Foods – Knoxville, TN
US Foods – Las Vegas, NV
US Foods – Los Angeles, CA
US Foods – Manassas
US Foods – Milwaukee
US Foods – Montgomery, AL
US Foods – Port Orange
US Foods – Raleigh, NC
US Foods – San Francisco, CA
US Foods – Seabrook
US Foods – Swedesboro, NJ
US Foods – Tampa, FL
Wabash Seafood Co.
West Central Produce
Z Baking Company