Everything your kitchen runs on, here tomorrow.
Palo Alto Foods is a family-owned wholesale food and restaurant supply distributor serving the San Francisco Bay Area since 1968. We’ve got over 4,000 items in stock and tens of thousands more on request, with a reliable scheduled delivery to restaurants, caterers, coffee houses, and corporate cafeterias
Featured Category
Office Pantry & Microkitchen Supplies
Keeping a breakroom stocked shouldn't be a full-time job. We supply Bay Area offices with curated snacks, drinks, dairy and compostable supplies on a recurring schedule — so your office manager stops making grocery runs.
Curated to your team
Choose the mix once; we keep it stocked and swap in new items as tastes change.
Any size office
One microkitchen or pantry service across several floors and locations.
Dietary coverage
Organic, gluten-free and vegan options sit alongside conventional favorites.
One point of contact
A rep who learns your building, your cadence and your standing order.
Delivery at a glance Bay Area
Warehouse
Union City
2850 Volpey Way
Delivery
Next day
on stocked items
Catalog
4,000+ items
across seven categories
Special order
Tens of thousands
available on request
Ownership
Family owned
and operated
Who we deliver to
If you buy food for a business anywhere in the Bay Area, we’ve likely already built a route past your door.
Restaurants
Catering operations
Corporate cafeterias
Office pantries & microkitchens
Coffee houses
Frozen yogurt shops
Delicatessens
Corporate snack programs
Ghost kitchens
Schools & institutions
A family business, still run like one
Palo Alto Foods has spent decades learning what Bay Area kitchens actually need — which means we stock the specialty item you can’t get from a national distributor, and we pick up the phone when something goes sideways on a Friday afternoon. We’d like to welcome you into our food distribution family.
The Team at Palo Alto Foods
Starting an account takes three steps
Most new customers are set up and receiving deliveries within a week.
1
Tell us about your business
Fill out the new customer form with your location, volume and what you’re buying today.
2
Talk to a rep
We’ll confirm we’re the right fit, walk through pricing and set your delivery day.
3
Order online or by app
Place standing and one-off orders from the catalog, then track them from your phone.
