The Restaurant Store has opened a new location in Davie, adding 47,000 square feet of cash-and-carry wholesale supply space to Broward County. Per the company's Instagram announcement, the store is stocked with professional kitchen equipment, commercial refrigeration, cookware, wholesale meats and seafood, and a broad range of hospitality essentials. The target customer is the working South Florida restaurateur — along with food trucks, caterers, and cafés — who needs product in hand the same day they walk in.
The cash-and-carry model runs differently from the broadline distributors that dominate commercial food service supply. No scheduled delivery windows, no order minimums, no waiting on a rep to confirm inventory. Operators drive to the store, select from what's on the floor, and leave with product the same day. For independent restaurants and smaller operations that can't commit to the volume thresholds broadline contracts require — or that need a specific piece of equipment or a case of specialty protein on short notice — the format fills a real gap. It also serves a segment that broadline distributors underserve: startups and newer operators building out their first commercial kitchen who need to move quickly without long-term supply agreements.
At 47,000 square feet, the Davie location is a significant physical commitment. A footprint of that size typically requires substantial and consistent customer throughput to make the real estate work, which reflects the chain's assessment of Broward County's commercial kitchen volume. Davie's central position in the county puts the store within reasonable reach of operators across Fort Lauderdale, Pembroke Pines, Miramar, and the broader South Broward market — a geography that supports a dense concentration of independent restaurants, catering operations, and institutional food-service accounts.
The company describes itself as one of the country's largest cash-and-carry restaurant supply chains, per its own announcement. The inventory span is broad by design: capital equipment and refrigeration alongside consumable food inventory, which lets an operator consolidate what might otherwise require separate accounts with a commercial equipment dealer and a food distributor. For Broward's independent restaurant community — which skews heavily toward owner-operators without dedicated purchasing staff — the single-source model has operational appeal.
No street address, prior-tenant context for the Davie site, or named executives were included in the company's initial social announcement. The store is confirmed open as of the post.
For Broward operators who have historically driven south to Miami-Dade or north to Palm Beach County for same-day wholesale sourcing, the Davie location meaningfully shortens that trip. Whether the company plans additional South Florida locations — Fort Lauderdale's urban core and the Boca-Delray corridor both carry significant restaurant volume — was not addressed in the announcement.
