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AWARDS
FOOD VENDOR DISTRIBUTOR
OF THE YEAR OF THE YEAR
Direct Pack Inc was recognized as the The 2017 Distributor of the Year recipient was
IHOP’s “Vendor Partner of the Year.” The Gordon Food Service. Not only did this year’s
award distinguishes excellence in service winner excel in making daily contributions
to the system, and 2017 nominees were in the form of reliability, accuracy, and
selected from across the food, non-food, service, but they went above and beyond to
and distributor categories. This year’s award respond in the face of an historic disaster to
winner was introduced as a new supplier ensure continuity of supply. We don’t think
in 2017 and played an instrumental role of disaster response plans every day, but
with the IHOP Meals To Go program. They they make all the difference between the fine
came to CSCS and IHOP with an exclusive line of devastation and survival in the face
and innovative product, and then delivered of something as fierce as Hurricane Harvey.
for the system by meeting an aggressive Gordon Food Service’s response included
implementation timeline. Direct Pack’s transitioning all of their business from their
communication, creativity, and ideation with center in Houston to supporting us out of their
IHOP resulted in fantastic to-go packaging Dallas facility and flying in personnel from all
that truly stands out from the competition. over the country to assist. Truly remarkable
performance. While Harvey only impacted one
region of the country, we can all appreciate
the level of planning and execution displayed
because of their commitment to the IHOP
system.
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