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The foodservice channel provides fresh-prepared meals to both commercial and institutional foodservice operators. Foodservice includes all venues where food is prepared away from home: restaurants, hotels, hospitals, nursing homes, schools, military installations, airlines and prisons.
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The convenience channel distributes food, heath and beauty care, and general merchandise products to convenience stores. Although most of the products sold in convenience stores are retail items, foodservice sales have increased in double-digits over the past several years.
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The bakery channel continues to evolve into new outlets for food products. Traditional bakeries have expanded to include frozen doughs and further processed bakery goods to compliment their standard baking items. Dot carries many suppliers in this area. Dot also carries a full line of ingredient bakery items that are used in the everyday production of bakery products.
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The retail channel continues to evolve and expand into new outlets for food products. The traditional grocery store/supermarket is certainly the largest segment, and its distributors are a big part of Dot Foods' current business.
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The vending channel provides food items at an unattended point of sale through the use of monetarily driven equipment. Dot Foods sells products to the vending distributor, who in turn sells to vending operators who actually load the candy, food and beverages into vending machines.
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Ingredient products were the first products ever offered by Dot Foods. Dot sells food ingredients to dairies, bakeries, candy manufacturers, meat processors and other food manufacturers.
Robert Tracy (R.T.), who worked for Prairie Farms Dairy at one time, founded Dot in 1960 to distribute these types of products. Dot expanded into the foodservice channel in 1980.
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