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Restaurants, stores, and caterers get the tools they need to stay in business from food service distributors and brokers. These products include wholesale foods, spices, specialty food products, food preparation equipment, ovens, and tableware. Restaurants and food service providers have many needs that can be filled by an able food service distributor, and new restaurants, cafes, and food trucks open every day that may need your products.

To get the greatest exposure for your product lines, put them in the hands of an experienced independent food service broker or sales rep. With many possible targets in a territory, tapping into the experience of a commission-only food sales rep can help you get a leg up on the competition, and quickly establish your market presence. The sheer variety of products in the food services industry means that food brokers or sales reps find it easier to carry your products without competing with their other lines.

As a food services distributor or broker, working with food service brokers to move your product into new territories maximizes your sales potential. Brokers readily tap into their existing contacts, helping your business grow faster so you can concentrate on the wide range of products that food service companies need. Like many other businesses, food service companies have been changing in past years, shifting to more eco-friendly products, selling more international foods, focusing on organic and more specialized ingredients, and more. Having commission-only sales agents or reps with years in the industry picking up on these needs and communicating them back to you gives your business an edge.

If you are in the food services industry, as either a food services broker or sales agent or as a manufacturer, broker, distributor, or service provider (in our terminology, “Principal,”) sign up with RepHunter to find the highly qualified sales representatives you want, as quickly as possible. Get started today by clicking on one of our buttons below.

The food service industry is a multi-faceted distribution network catering to businesses that need a variety of products to meet consumer needs. For a foodservice broker or food sales representative, working for several food services distributors can provide an exciting and lucrative career. How can you maximize your opportunities in the food service industry and leverage your experience to sell the widest variety of products as possible? Take a look at our tips below and dive into RepHunter's expansive database of food service brokers and distributors looking for commission-only food brokers and outside sales food reps.

Analyze Your Current Rolodex

Your present lines probably occupy the same territory, but encompass different types of businesses. An Italian restaurant, a bakery, retail grocery store a wholesale grocery chain all need different products that are carried by food service distributors. If you are willing to dive into a new sector of the food service industry, try to figure out how easy it will be to carry over your expertise, and if your current contacts will be able to put in a good word for you with your new food broker sales job / line. It might be easy to expand into bakeries if your restaurant clients have great relationships with their bread and dessert suppliers, and a great relationship with you as the outside sales rep.

Supplement Experience with Education

Running a restaurant is hard work, and many food services businesses fail. To succeed in the restaurant business your end product must be high quality and consistent, and as a restaurant owner you rely on consistency from your suppliers in order to hit these goals. For food retailers, meeting the ever-changing consumer tastes means adding more variety, such as organic, international or whatever-free item is popular at the moment. As a food service, if you have a background in restaurant management or have training in this area, you’ll find your relationship with businesses in the food service industry and ability to sell to their needs will improve, and more food services sales representative jobs and opportunities will open to you. As with any sales niche, keeping up with the times is important, too. Food prices and availability fluctuate constantly, and the more knowledge you have in this area, the more comfortable food service businesses will be in switching to you as their vendor of essential supplies.

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