Food distributor serving Cloquet, Minnesota
Tuesdays in Cloquet, from our own warehouse in Superior. Meats, produce, dry goods, kitchen and tableware, paper and disposables, on one truck and one invoice.
Carlton County kitchens have choices about who delivers to them. What is worth asking about any of them is a narrower question than price per case: when something goes wrong on a Friday, who actually picks up, and can they decide anything.
Here that is one person. The rep who sells to you drives this route himself and knows your kitchen rather than your account number, and the people who set your pricing, approve your credit and sort out a short case are in one building in Superior — not a regional office, not a queue. It is a family company, two generations of it, in the business since 1991.
About 6,600 items on the list, which is enough to be somebody's only supplier, and our own trucks rather than a freight line. The order minimum is $200 and it is set low on purpose.
Cloquet, MN at a glance
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Delivery days
Tuesday
Every week, year round - Order cutoff 4:00 PM the day before
- Order minimum $200 per order, not per week
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Delivered from
2614 N 14th St
Superior, WI 54880
Not sure we reach you? Put your address in here and we will tell you your day straight out.
The rest of the run
Cloquet sits on the busiest side of our map. The Twin Ports are minutes away and we are there four days out of five.
Twin Ports and Carlton County
- Duluth
- Superior
- Hermantown
- Alborn
- Barnum
- Kerrick
Delivery days vary by town — check your address for yours, or see all 58 towns on our routes.
What comes off the truck
Four groups, thirty-plus brands, one delivery. A Cloquet kitchen orders from the same list as one in Superior, because it is the same warehouse.
Or search all 6,600 items by name, brand or item number before you call.
Starting an account
Four steps, about a week end to end.
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Marty comes out
He is in the area anyway. He walks the kitchen, looks at what you already run, and helps you build a first order around it rather than around a catalog.
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Credit application
One page. Fill it in online or print it — it is read in Superior by someone who can say yes.
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Your order guide
The items you actually buy, in the order you actually count them, so ordering takes minutes instead of an afternoon.
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Tuesday
Order by 4:00 PM the day before and it is on the truck.
Questions we get from Cloquet, MN
What day would we get delivered?
Tuesday. Orders are due by 4:00 PM the day before, so get it in by Monday afternoon and it is on the truck.
Who would we actually be dealing with?
One rep, who drives this route rather than reading about it, plus an office in Superior where the people who answer can decide things. You are not routed anywhere.
What if something cannot wait until Tuesday?
Call your rep. A lot gets sorted between trucks, and when it genuinely cannot wait you can put it on a will call and collect it from the warehouse in Superior.
We are a small place. Are we too small for you?
The order minimum is $200 and it is set low deliberately. A good share of what our trucks carry goes to kitchens that a bigger distributor would treat as a rounding error.
Do we have to switch everything at once?
No. Plenty of kitchens start with one category — produce, or paper — and go from there. We would rather earn the rest than have it written into an agreement.
Ask us what we would do differently
A rep can be out to walk your kitchen this week. Put your situation to him and hold us to the answer.