Better Than Costco! - US Foods Chef Store

Better Than Costco! - US Foods Chef Store
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[@lisagalloway-nw5qz]

I raised 4 children and was very frugal. The kids are grown and I am still frugal....I love finding a good deal when grocery shopping even now with just my husband and I. I read all ingredient labels too. It made me laugh when you showed the 35 lbs. of peanut butter. Thank you for sharing this!!!

[@808rocker808]

I didnt think I needed this type of video but I love them now!

[@leilareggie1826]

I still have my sturdy Panpered Chef Pizza Cutter for ten years....pizza, pita, biscuit, cookie bar cutter. My grandmother's kitchen was filled with restaurant supply mugs, dishes, utensils and huge pots for her huge family and Sunday suppers for 20-30 people. Torani syrups are great for ice cream, yogurts, cake and cookie baking as well as for drinks.

[@MaribelZavala-mi7le]

Love these grocery videos and eating while watching 🤌🏽

[@reeseamberr]

omg me too! doing it rn!

[@pinschrunner]

Chefs stores are busy at 6am. At 5pm, chef are feeding people and been cooking for 11 hours

[@BenjiManTV]

Totally. Respect to those who feed us!

[@rachelnguyen6872]

This video is the only reason why I know this store exists O:

[@facedefacede1164]

I know them from taking a bus and checking instacart

[@KJDogluv]

I grew up eating pickled eggs and pickled onions, my dad was English !

[@keithsadler5260]

I have a pizza cutter without the handle because we do thin crust gluten free pizzas. I don’t have a drip coffee maker anymore, I switched to a French press. I love the US Foods Chef Store. They are supposed to open one close by (within an hours drive). I’m very excited to have one of these closer to home. The one I go to now is about 1.5 hour away. Great video.

[@terryhenderson424]

Those #10 cans have a Lot of food in them for use at one time. A number of the foods can be portioned out and frozen. It is also a good thing to plan for big batch cooking, making freezer meals, and the like when opening a can. The savings can be significant.

[@Bethihearyoucalling]

I don’t know why I don’t see more people shopping at restaurant supply stores, especially the large family vloggers. After 30+ years in the restaurant business, I guess it seems more normal to me. It’s definitely worth it to investigate what your area has to offer in the way of these types of purveyors. My area also has a produce purveyor that not only sells cases of produce to restaurants, but also breaks up the cases and sells to the public for incredibly cheap and the variety is fantastic. I agree that this is a great way to equip your kitchen if you want to skip the thrift stores.

[@CryingWolf_225]

As a former EMT, We had a patient who died from eating fries cooked in peanut oil. The coconut oil turns to a solid below 75 °F. Institutional blend four is different flours to be able to make many different products. As far as having so much hot sauce, A wing sauce is usually made with liquid butter and hot sauce. As far as the the strainer goes, the reinforcement is good when one filters oil as the sediment and heat will cause it to split. I am a chef and would love to come look at that store compared to Sam's wholesale or other big box stores..

[@brandonknipp3171]

Is this a robot? Say poopie

[@mohamed1104]

I don’t understand a fooking word this person said. Wtf is this nonsense.

[@kingdarkem]

Sadly my local chef place doesnt cater to anyone who isn't a member with a business license given to obtain membership....

[@nokieng6502]

Wow, a trip! What the heck was your point😳😳😳😳😳

[@Will-tm5bj]

And a random string of nonsense to you too, sir

[@kclorzanovan5953]

Benji, my husband and I were just talking about how we wish you could one day appear on a show like Master Chef or Next Level Chef or even Chopped!

[@smartinezxox]

We go here often because my husband works for US FOODS as a delivery driver so we get a discount 🤑 Loved watching your picks , now I have a list for this weekend 😝

[@VeAqSa]

I’m allergic to peanuts but can eat peanut oil because the oil no longer has the protein that causes the allergic reaction.

[@RRaucina]

Foolish. Still alive?

[@MayBlaze0]

I adore the Winco Cleaver I got from there. Dirt cheap, robust, weighty, and made of stainless steel. You can't beat it. I even picked up their 8" Chef's Knife bc I was so impressed.

[@davidwagner5894]

Refilling tapatio bottles on the table, you're welcome.

[@webluke]

Did you spot the Cyber Truck? In a store like this, the people picking up stuff for a restaurant would come in the morning and be doing so quickly as they have other stuff to do. I think there are other versions of these around; I know my sister-in-law got a bunch of food for a re-wedding they had, and they do a lot of the cooking for their large family events.

[@mackavah466]

Thanks Benji. I never knew there is a store like that. Dedicated to restaurants.

[@anicetopontillas8121]

I live in Las Vegas, nv and drive through Carson City or Reno on my way to Sacramento to visit my mother and family. I usually stop at one of these stores to do some shopping for grocery to do some cooking. I like shopping at these stores to get certain items. Once I called them and told them I needed raw turkey wrapped in foil. They said they had a few left and asked to save me at least two of them. They were great helping me out.

[@DSmith-gs4tr]

My dad loved the old cash and carry stores. He hated buying stuff from grocery stores and rarely did.

[@deniceworks6328]

We have US Foods Chef store here in Dallas but I’ve never gone inside. Now I need to😀

[@melaniebeachy1]

Would love to see an Aldi shop. See how you would rate the food and what you would get.

[@BethR-ti6mj]

Unfortunately we don't have Aldi's here in the PNW :(

[@tyeman3039]

Not sure where you are but down south we can get 5 gallon bottles of LouAnn peanut oil. It’s what we use to deep fry turkeys.

[@aimeewynhausen9924]

The solid at the bottom is probably the coconut oil since it is solid at room temperature. that's my guess. I worked at a movie theater a million years ago and we had a huge bucket of the oil for the machine and it had a heater to melt the solids so it could pump the oil in the popper hopper. The machines that they use to squirt "butter flavor" on is also heated to keep it melted so it can squirt appropriately.

[@Anew1008]

Those cold foams are meant to go on top of coffee they are coffee flavoured whipped cream! Juat got some at aldis can't wait to try!❤

[@sharontahir9694]

When I was a kid, the movie theater used real butter and they let you put it on your popped corn yourself. It was in a thing sort of like a crockpot with a spigot. They just dropped the blocks of butter into the pot and let it melt.

[@kikiramch]

They would use the really big bottle of Tapatio (better value per litre’ to fill up their smaller bottles they will have sat on the table (smaller nicer bottles at a higher cost per litre)

[@kikiramch]

That is the same with the kikomann, they will also probably put it in a smaller container then using it to cook but will also fill up containers on tables

[@lightfoot413]

cant wait our chefs store opens this Sat. thanks for sharing gr8 video..

[@veevee6019]

Hahaha who edits the videos 🤣 Benji a Blue Curacao is used for many different cocktails and mocktails .... a AMF is a Adios motherF 😂 Love these videos by the way Benji. I also love the vlogs I've been a long time viewer of the vlog chanel from 2010. Huge fan! Much love from Australia 🇦🇺

[@susanstabio5773]

I have the zyliss red pizza cutter. It is wonderful. Has stayed sharp for 35 years and fits easily in the dishwasher.

[@kaitlynchin1344]

Just found your videos and i’m loving it! I didn’t see any other comments about this but an AMF stands for adios mother trucker* It’s like bright blue and really strong

[@kittyng-yeung8699]

Love watching these videos! Not a shopping related question but is there anything special you do to clean your utensils/cookware after cooking chicken? I have a fear of touching raw chicken and cross contamination. So I totally use cooking gloves and disinfect during/after cooking and wash things with scalding hot water. Are there any other tips you would recommend or do you just use the regular ol' sponge and dish soap?

[@sal4gal]

In St. George, UT the 2 stores are literally right next to each other, it is so convenient!

[@Anew1008]

That store has alot of goodies! The syrup isle is insane! Lol if u drink u know what blue Curacao is😂

[@DMacDaddy]

If anyone is interested, I cooked 9 meals, 120 people, so 1080 servings of food over four days in Myrtle Beach using Chefs Store. Total cost = $5,050. Make sure you place the order 2-3 weeks ahead of time if you are picking it up in store since they can’t guarantee that your pickup will contain everything g you order unless you give them time to get it on a truck ahead of time. Just FYI - this was around 3 pallets of food and we requested them to pick and pallet for us. They even wrapped the pallets for us to keep things stable for a 30 minute drive.

[@CGI929]

Wow…where is the store located?

[@liliana1986ify]

Hi Benji my parents own a restaurant and we use it to refill the little bottles 😂

[@royhughes2854]

I sure do hope I can locate one of these stores near me!!

[@jillbert40]

My parents used to shop at Cash and carry in the seventies. They had to present a business license to shop there.

[@terryhenderson424]

@@jillbert40 Thst varies a bit from state to state. A lot of the states have relaxed thier reasurant supply and other wholesale access too.

[@richardmassey1555]

I've worked in restaurants and commercial kitchens for 30+ years. I've always gone to restaurant supply stores for pots, pans, knives and such. Way better quality and you end up not paying much more for it.

[@caroldocherty6810]

I once worked at a british fish and chip shop and the owner always used peanut oil. His food was the best

[@tonywestvirginia]

Gordon Food Service is a food service distributor based in Wyoming, Michigan serving the Midwest, Northeast, Southeast, and Southwest regions of the United States and coast-to-coast in Canada.

[@alwazabrat]

clarified butter = ghee

[@EdStyer]

I just discovered this video and your channel Benji. Yes I subscribed! :) There's a US Chefs store about 25 miles from where I live...guess I gotta go check it out! Thx for your video!

[@The-Day-Off]

Not sure if you have them near you benji but it does require a membership but check out a restaurant depot sometime. Snag a chef with a card and go

[@angelal6700]

They also sell pots and lids separately!!!! Replace the lid that gets trashed/lost, at lower $$ than the WHOLE pot & lid set.😊

[@ethereal369]

I have one of those stores 5 minutes from our house. I always thought it was wholesale & only sold to restaurants. Definitely going to check it out.

[@TheAnnoyingBoss]

Being non membership is a big bonus to me. Im staunchly anti subscription anti membership to me its just sucking money out every month what if i only shop there twice or thrice a year?

[@ANTOCOOKINGART]

happy with your sharing on us foods chef store❤❤❤

[@angelal6700]

If you cannot use, or freeze, the big chunks of meat, or cheese, etc., shop with a friend!! 😊 And when you get to the 1st home, cut and package the portions. Clean hands for the packaging, dirty hands for the cutting & dropping. No cross contamination, and its fast. It's what works for me.

[@KJDogluv]

Hell yeah it’s a great store!

[@terryhenderson424]

Our Chef's Store 's are often busy. The different times of day and days of the week have different customer demographics.

[@terryhenderson424]

Costco has generally better quality items and "healthier" items. You do have to check unit prices between Costco, regular grocery shelf prices, and grocery store sales prices against the Cjef's Store prices. If ingredient lists are inportamt, it is important to check them at Chefs Store 'cause not all restaursnt food is particularly preservative free.

[@gasoline3597]

US Foods have a list of ingredients they "banned" from their products, something I don't see Costco have although Costco products in general does seem to have better quality than your typical grocery store

[@RogueWave2030]

This is so interesting. There are a couple of them not too far from us. Definitely going to check them out now. New subscriber.

[@zackwilson9905]

35 pounds of peanut butter had me dying

[@pauln6917]

There are some butcher channels that teach buying large uncut portions from the Chef Store and how to break them down into steaks and roasts.

[@richardmassey1555]

Buying in the form you mentioned, and doing some work yourself, saves money. Especially with everything costing so much

[@Anew1008]

Yes i love resturaunt quality stuff why not they are meant to last! That bell is too good! Welcome to benjiman tv diner can i take your order? Order up ding! 🛎🎉❤

[@LaDiables]

The seperation of the popcorn oil is because coconut oil is often a solid at room temperature. So below 75 ish degrees it would be a solid

[@callofdutypro815]

wait until you find about the restaurant store , it’s mainly on the east coast but very similar concept

[@lindaburnside3832]

Love this video. I'm going to go check at one of these stores. I found one an hour from where I live.

[@PNWeucGamer23]

The Costco executive membership fee can be covered by the executive rebate check and credit card reward. So it can be more of a pro if u spend a lot at costco throughout the year.

[@terryhenderson424]

Around here, Chef's Store is THEE place to buy everything portioning including resealablemplastic bags, wrap, disposable plates and containers, plastic cups amd glasses, and disposable silverware related. Almost always Chefs Store is cheaper than Costco. We havent checked out the compsrative prices of thier paper products but they do carry tp, paper towels, paper nspkins of assorted qualities, andcprobably more.

[@BenjiManTV]

Thanks for sharing

[@JeremyLeePotocki]

For sauces, canned goods, cheese, and hard to find stuff (like the clarified butter) these would be worthy to make a five hour round trip to Oklahoma City to visit the store every six to 10 months. However for meats in my area I can get meats like chicken WAY way cheaper at places like "OK Food's outlet store" with fresh chicken coming straight from the plant in less than 48 hours of order in 40lb. bulks (legs or thighs being between $18 to $22 for 40lb.). Not to mention since they make the chicken products for Burger King, Wendy's, Rally's, etc. I can buy them in bulk too. As for Beef & Pork 10Box is cheaper too at times, and some other meat brokers in my area also have similar deals.

[@maxherbert592]

In the Midwest Gordon Food Service. They deliver to restaurants but they also have stores

[@cindyreudter1238]

Love this store.

[@karenseto6128]

The chef store looks really cool! Great recommendation 🤗

[@jessm305]

What about IKEA? I know that place can be overwhelming but I think they have some cooking supplies.

[@jc1400]

Sysco foods has something similar. they are a competor to US Foods. Just check your area for one.

[@angelal6700]

Been to the one in my area, Columbia, SC. There are some really good deals, even for a 2 person household. I price compare with Amazon & Walmart while I am there. I get the 40# cases of boneless/skinless chicken breast or thighs. Or the boneless/skinless box of 2@ 10# turkey breast. I have processed it all in the pressure canner. Sooooo much better than factory canned. 😊

[@GlitterPuffStamps]

You can check all prices before you go on the web , you can see all prices for things before you even go

[@maggiepennington5583]

Wish there was one in Springfield Mo or poplar bluff Mo, maybe some day!

[@DelbertStinkfester]

When I finish off a jar of pickles I like to put a dozen hard boiled eggs in the leftover brine and make my own pickled eggs

[@prairiemakeup8453]

Thank you for referencing peanut allergies.

[@Freedom_Half_Off]

It is down to indiviual preference but I would never use Bar Keepers Friend on a cooking utensil . I won't even use it in a sink where food might get washed later . You can see the beading of water where it resist being "rinsed off" afterwards . Everything else you need to know is printed on the product itself 👀

[@dmmness]

I just googled this place and I have one 6 miles away from my house.. I am definitely checking this place out.

[@joecoolest1968]

Yes chef store is the best We shop there as a family it’s great

[@nicolems]

Monin is used widely in Italian coffee and gelato shops.

[@annnguyenvu]

Movie theatre popcorn always gives me a headache when I eat it so I haven't has it for many years now.

[@PattyRachford]

What is Matt's Utube channel call? I really enjoy watching all of yours.

[@davidneumann4900]

The Cloverdale hot dogs are great so big I definitely recommend these stores are a great place to shop if you have a large family

[@onecalladay]

This is a good place to shop for many items. But most meat prices (sausages) are not quite as good as Walmart and you don't have to buy 5 pounds. Rice is a lot cheaper at Walmart. US chiefs is the third name since I've been shopping there.

[@spmamabear]

I live very rural, so I actually, although I do not run a restaurant, shop very similarly to a restauranteur when I do my "quarterly" shopping spree in our big town, and stock up on frozen and shelf stable ingredients, because cooking everything from scratch My nearest Costco and Walmart are a 4 hour round trip in a neighboring state, but I did see a Chef Store across the street from Walmart, and wondered. Where I used to live, a restaurant supply store near me required a business license number to get a membership card, it seems the Chef Store does not.

[@silmisolani6808]

Our house is in Illinois and the closest store is in Oklahoma....we're going 😁

[@katherinez9654]

The busy time for this store is when it first opens in the morning.

[@8v8n]

“35lbs of peanut butter” sent me😂

[@Theselfiechick]

Monins lavendar is an amazing flavor mix with gin

[@davidmasaoka8455]

Which location is this? These stores are throughout the west but my local one is much smaller and has much less stock. There are online sales flyers. I got the double mesh strainer well under $10 on sale. Green onions in 2# bag. I chop and freeze, price varies a lot, from $3+ to $13+. My local store no longer has pot sticker or egg roll wraps but does still have frozen potstickers. Not Clorox but gallon bleach is like $4. I think the beef Cloverdale dogs used to be used at mariner games.

[@kristinarose4122]

Where im from (Victoria BC Canada) we have a store called the wholesale ckub and alot of restaurant people go there

[@user-gj8ms7jd8v]

Ours used to be crumby. It's still crumby, but a little more options. Nothing like I've seen on YT though. :/ AMF is so good, but it will f u up. Lol. Wherever you shop...show prices!

[@sethswanson9839]

The oil for popcorn was for popping not buttering.

[@yvem3745]

Benji can u give us a video on diff spare rib or short ribs marinades pls

[@221laroux]

Hei Benji those syrups are for cocktailes fyi, monin is the best one an curacao blue mixed with vodka and lime juice 1/1/1 is the best kamikaze drink 👌👌

[@matcha910]

Omg you should do Aldi

[@nellermann]

we need these in the midwest.

[@brendaloper1]

I have several of the square 6 quart containers i use for flour and sugar etc.

[@xdonnamonsterx]

For the syrups, did you see if they carry Bossen syrups for boba?

[@karenblakley7066]

Try the hot chocolate in the envelopes from there. It's called Rituals hot chocolate.

[@russellhixson1692]

I have the garlic press and it’s the bomb.

[@ericvonp]

Frying in peanut oil on your deck or garage went out like 10-15 years ago

[@floggerSG]

Skipped right over that tamari sauce 🤤

[@Marsha-yl8wl]

How much was the 35 pounds of peanut butter? Wheat berry? Please. It's a two hour drive one way....but considering.

[@kimlizotte694]

Was hoping one would be in Denver - no luck