Food & Catering Procurement Services
Food Purchasing Expertise
Foodservice procurement is high-frequency, high-impact and highly sensitive to quality and timing. Torg helps you modernize your procurement model while keeping culinary standards, budget constraints, and delivery windows aligned.
Industry-Specific Expertise
We help restaurants, hotels, and QSRs reduce food costs, onboard certified vendors, and streamline sourcing across fresh, frozen, and ambient categories.
Menu-Aligned Sourcing
We align products with menu specs, standardizing SKUs and finding suppliers with matching ingredients, taste profiles, and required certifications.
Centralized Supplier Management
We build structured supplier programs with clear terms, volume deals, audits, and SLAs—ideal for managing multi-site operations.
Waste & Overhead Reduction
We find and fix inefficiencies in ordering, storage, and delivery to cut spoilage, reduce waste, and lower operating costs.
Local & Sustainable Sourcing Models
We support ESG goals by sourcing local, organic, or fair-trade products while balancing price, availability, and logistics.
Procurement Process Automation
We implement digital tools to automate ordering, monitor spend, and reduce manual follow-ups, saving your team time and improving control.
Why Choose Us
Food service procurement is fast-moving, margin-sensitive, and quality-critical. Torg brings hands-on expertise across sourcing, menu cost control, and supplier performance. We don’t just analyze, we act. From spec alignment and supplier audits to bid execution and contract terms, we work directly with your teams to reduce costs, ensure food safety, and build a resilient, agile supply base.
Food Service Procurement Services That Deliver Results
Sourcing Strategy Development
We create procurement strategies tailored to your menu, region, and kitchen setup (centralized or decentralized) ensuring consistent ingredient availability, cost control, and supplier alignment across all your foodservice locations.
Category Cost Benchmarking
Our team compares pricing, formats, and yield performance across suppliers, giving you leverage to negotiate smarter contracts and avoid overspending on essential ingredients, packaging, or ready-made foodservice products.
Supplier Consolidation & Contracts
We analyze your current vendor list to identify opportunities for supplier consolidation, dual sourcing, or better contract terms, driving cost savings, improving service reliability, and enhancing purchasing power.
Supply Chain & Logistics Planning
We fine-tune your delivery cadence, order quantities, and temperature-controlled logistics to reduce inventory strain, optimize freshness, and ensure every location gets the right product, on time, every time.
Recipe & SKU Standardization
We align recipes, ingredients, and SKUs across your outlets, helping reduce prep errors, simplify training, improve order precision, and support more accurate demand planning and purchasing forecasts.
Sustainability & Compliance Management
We help define sourcing standards (from organic to HACCP or Fair Trade) and ensure all vendors meet food safety, documentation, and sustainability criteria to support your brand’s compliance goals.
How We Help
Torg’s consultants work closely with your culinary, procurement, and operations teams to transform how you source, driving margin improvement, supplier performance, and menu consistency at scale.
Spend & Supplier Base Analysis
We analyze your purchasing data across sites, categories, and menus, mapping supplier overlap, cost per portion, delivery performance, and spec variance. This allows us to identify inefficiencies, benchmark pricing, and pinpoint where consolidation or renegotiation will have the most impact.
Strategic Sourcing Frameworks
We create tailored sourcing frameworks that match your food service needs—from fresh produce and proteins to packaging and pantry staples. These playbooks cover vendor tiering, make-or-buy strategies, pricing thresholds, and dual-sourcing protocols to streamline decisions across your locations.
Menu-Aligned Sourcing Design
We align sourcing strategies with your current and future menu plans. Whether introducing new SKUs, rotating seasonal ingredients, or expanding into new regions, we ensure supplier capabilities, delivery windows, and price points support your culinary and brand vision.
Execution & Supplier Transition
We manage new vendor rollouts end-to-end including onboarding, documentation, sample approvals, logistics setup, and QA procedures. From first delivery to full integration, we ensure a smooth handoff so your kitchen operations run without disruption.
Food Procurement Consulting Process
Initial Assessment & Menu Mapping
We analyze your menu, site count, order flow, and procurement pain points, highlighting sourcing inefficiencies, cost gaps, and delivery issues based on current operations and demand patterns.
Spend Analysis & Supplier Mapping
We break down spend by product, site, and supplier, exposing duplicate SKUs, inconsistent pricing, and supply chain leakage, while mapping supplier coverage across your footprint.
Category Strategy & Supplier Shortlisting
We define sourcing goals by category and shortlist certified, compliant suppliers based on proximity, volume capability, and alignment with your cost, quality, and availability needs.
Implementation & Supplier Onboarding
We manage onboarding including covering pricing, delivery formats, QA workflows, and staff training to ensure seamless supplier transition without interrupting operations or product availability.
Digital Tools & Monitoring Setup
We deploy dashboards that track spend, delivery status, and compliance, providing location-level visibility and enabling real-time procurement decisions across your organization.
Our Procurement Consulting Experts
Kim Alvarstein
Kim brings over 10 years of procurement leadership in FMCG and renewables. With an MSc in Supply Chain Management and MCIPS credentials, he specializes in building resilient sourcing systems across Europe.
Hans Furuseth
Hans is the founder and former CEO of Farmasiet and Zalando Norway. An MBA graduate from Harvard, he created Torg to digitize and future-proof procurement and supply chains for the modern era.
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