US Foods CHEF'STORE (formerly Smart Foodservice Warehouse Stores and Cash&Carry Smart Foodservice) is a chain of American warehouse grocery stores located in

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. The company operates 82 stores at the end of May 2022. One store in Arizona, 15 in California, 6 in Idaho, two in Montana, two in Nevada, one store in North Carolina, one in Oklahoma, 21 in Oregon, three stores in South Carolina, one in Texas, one in Utah, one in Virginia, and 27 stores in Washington state. The company is based in West Linn,

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History

Smart Foodservice Warehouse Stores operated as an independent division of Smart & Final, LLC between 2008 and 2020. In March 2020,

US Foods US Foods (formerly known as U.S. Foodservice) is an American foodservice distributor. With approximately $24 billion in annual revenue, US Foods was the 10th largest private company in America until its IPO. It was founded in August 1989. Many ...

agreed to acquire the Smart Foodservice Warehouse Stores from Apollo Global Management for $970 million. In March 2021, US Foods rebranded all Smart Foodservice Warehouse stores as US Foods CHEF'STORE. Cash&Carry was established in 1955 by United Grocers and operated under the name United Grocers Cash&Carry with a single store in Oregon City, Oregon. In 1998, Smart Foodservice was acquired by Smart & Final and became known as Cash&Carry Smart Foodservice. In 2018, Cash&Carry Smart Foodservice announced its rebranding to Smart Foodservice Warehouse Stores. In June 2022, CHEF’STORE named Irfan Badibanga as the company president, succeeding Derek Jones.

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External links

Company website
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