Spec-consistent sizing and grade
Tell us the size and grade your menu needs. Same order, same result, week over week.
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Wholesale Produce for Restaurants and Food Service
A spec your menu can actually rely on. Shaly Foods opens wholesale accounts for restaurants and food service kitchens alongside grocers and distributors, not just the corner store. Direct sourcing from Egypt, Turkey and the United States means the specialty items on your menu come from the same supplier every order, not whatever the broadline truck happened to bring that week.
What a kitchen account gets
Standing weekly delivery
A recurring order on a schedule, not a re-negotiation every time you need to restock.
Advance notice on season changes
When a short-window item like sour cherries or a specific mango variety is ending, you hear about it before your menu does.
One account, the full range
Egyptian mangoes, Turkish sour cherries, Persian grocery lines and Canadian season crops on a single wholesale account.
Do you supply restaurants directly, or only grocers?
Both. Wholesale accounts only, no single-unit retail, but that includes restaurants and food service kitchens alongside grocers and distributors. It's one of the three account types Shaly Foods already opens.
Can you hold a consistent spec, not just whatever's available?
That's the point of a food service account: you tell us the size and grade your menu needs, and we tell you honestly when a season change means it can't be met, rather than substituting silently.
How does this compare to a broadline food service supplier?
It doesn't replace one. A broadline distributor covers dry goods, protein, paper and chemical, and Shaly Foods covers none of that. What a broadline truck handles badly is the specialty produce end of a Middle Eastern, Persian or Mediterranean menu: the herbs, the eggplant varieties, the short-window fruit. Those get substituted silently or dropped from the truck. Most kitchens run Shaly Foods as the specialty produce line alongside their broadline account rather than instead of it.
How does delivery work for a restaurant in Metro Vancouver?
Metro Vancouver runs on Shaly Foods' own trucks rather than a third-party courier, which is what makes a standing weekly slot possible and what makes a short-notice problem fixable by a phone call. Outside Metro Vancouver, the BC Interior and Vancouver Island run on scheduled routes. Ask for the current schedule when you open the account, since the day that suits your prep cycle matters more than the fastest possible transit.
Is there a minimum order?
Yes: $300 to $500, depending on your shipping area. Shaly Foods sells by the case and the pallet, mixed across the range on one account, so it's not a fixed single-SKU minimum.
Where does Shaly Foods ship?
Metro Vancouver on Shaly Foods' own trucks; BC Interior and Vancouver Island on scheduled routes; Alberta and the Prairies on refrigerated LTL and full pallets; Ontario and east for standing volume accounts.