WebstaurantStore

WebstaurantStore
Privately held company
Industry Foodservice
Founder Fred Clark
Headquarters Lititz, Pennsylvania
Area served
 United States
Website www.webstaurantstore.com

WebstaurantStore is an online restaurant supply company based in Lititz, Pennsylvania. The company offers commercial-grade equipment to the food service industry through online ordering and commercial shipping. WebstaurantStore is a division of Clark Associates, Inc., which was rated as Central Pennsylvania's fastest growing company in 2013 by the Central Penn Business Journal.[1] In 2014, Clark Associates, Inc. was also rated as the fourth largest distributor of restaurant supplies by Foodservice Equipment & Supplies Magazine (FE&S),[2] and was awarded FE&S' Dealer of the Year Award in 2015.[3] WebstaurantStore was chosen as the featured e-commerce business for Pennsylvania in Google's Economic Impact Report for 2013.[4]

History

WebstaurantStore was founded in Lancaster, Pennsylvania as a business-to-business (B2B) sales company. The company is now led by President Dave Groff who helped establish the business in 2004. In 2012, WebstaurantStore expanded to Madisonville, Kentucky[5] followed by other expansions to Dayton, Nevada[6] in 2013 and Cumberland, Maryland[7] in 2014. Also in 2013, the company moved headquarters from Smoketown to Lititz to accommodate a growing number of employees.[8]

Charitable initiatives

As a subsidiary of Clark Associates, Inc., WebstaurantStore is a contributing member of the Clark Associates Charitable Foundation. The foundation raises money through donations to give back to the local community in a number of ways, including academic scholarships.[9] Independently, WebstaurantStore organizes "Volunteer Days" on a monthly basis to aid local organizations. Previous volunteer collaborators include Water Street Ministries, the Sierra Club,[10] and Relay for Life. WebstaurantStore has also opened its doors to host local professional organizations such as Lancaster Young Professionals.[11]

References

  1. ↑ "Central Penn Business Journal announced the rankings of the seventeenth annual Top 50 Fastest Growing Companies program: Central Pennsylvania Business Awards | PennLive.com". blog.pennlive.com. Retrieved 2014-05-23. horizontal tab character in |title= at position 166 (help)
  2. ↑ "2014 Distribution Giants - Foodservice Equipment & Supplies". fesmag.com. Retrieved 2014-05-23.
  3. ↑ "2015 Dealer of the Year: Clark Associates, Inc.". fesmag.com. Retrieved 2015-06-05.
  4. ↑ "Economic Impact United States 2013" (PDF). Google. Retrieved 2015-07-30.
  5. ↑ "Clark Associates to Hire 95 for Distribution Facility - Lane Report | Kentucky Business & Economic News". lanereport.com. Retrieved 2014-05-23.
  6. ↑ "WEBstaurant adds Nevada site to serve western states - LancasterOnline: Business". lancasteronline.com. Retrieved 2014-05-23.
  7. ↑ "Restaurant supply store to hire 150 - Cumberland Times-News: News". http://www.times-news.com/. Retrieved 2015-06-18.
  8. ↑ "Kitchen supply firm expanding - LancasterOnline: Business". lancasteronline.com. Retrieved 2014-05-23.
  9. ↑ "The Clark Grant | Pennsylvania Technology Student Association". patsa.org. Retrieved 2014-05-23.
  10. ↑ "Newsletter for the Lancaster Group of the Sierra Club June 2013 Vol. 6, No. 1" (PDF). 8 June 2013. Retrieved 2014-06-01.
  11. ↑ "Annual Holiday Mixer | Lancaster Young Professionals". lyp.org. Retrieved 2014-05-23.
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