Dot Foods is the largest foodservice redistribution company in the United States.
[3] Dot consolidates those products and delivers in less-than-truckload (LTL) quantities to distributors nationwide on a weekly basis.
Distributors can buy a mix of temperatures and products, with a combined minimum of just 5,000 pounds.
[4] Dot Foods was founded in 1960, by Robert F. Tracy, and was originally named Associated Dairy Products to reflect the nature of the business at the time.
Tracy began the enterprise by selling an assortment of dairy products from the back of the family station wagon.