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Colleges & Universities · Cleveland
Dean Supply is a family-owned distributor in Cleveland, in business since 1950. We stock more than 50,000 items across foodservice and janitorial and deliver on our own trucks five days a week.
Dining halls, retail concepts, c-stores, catering, athletics, housing and facilities — one account, one invoice, one place to call.
How to Buy
Purchasing rules differ by institution and dollar threshold. We are set up for all four routes and will send whatever documentation your procurement office needs on file.
What We Stock
Pans, lids, serving utensils, scoops, food storage, prep tools, sheet pans, racks.
Cups, lids, clamshells, cutlery kits, napkins, portion cups, bags, wraps. Branded printing available.
Can liners, floor care, restroom paper, soap, dispensers, chemicals, matting, receptacles.
Insulated carriers, food pans, holding cabinets, transport carts.
Ventless and rapid-cook, refrigeration, warewashing, serving lines. With design help, Rent-Try-Buy, financing and extended warranties.
By Venue
Different venues, different lists. Set up each one on the account and they order separately.
High volume with a dish room. Reusable ware, pans, serving tools, warewash chemicals and racks.
Packaging is part of the concept. Branded or plain.
Unattended, so everything is sealed, labelled and dated.
Has to travel and has to look right.
Volume in two hours, run by people who are not dining staff.
Terms
Questions
$150 in merchandise, plus a $2.99 fuel surcharge, on local truck delivery. Commercial and institutional addresses only. See local truck delivery.
Order by 3:00 PM the day before your delivery day and it makes your next scheduled stop. Your delivery days depend on which route you are on.
Faster than that, the showroom is open to the public and you can collect the same day.
Depends on your policy and the amount. We are set up for a cooperative contract, your own solicitation, or a purchase order under threshold. We will send the documentation your office needs.
Yes. Institutional accounts order by PO. Your office issues against the account and receives invoices as usual.
Yes. Send the certificate at account opening and it applies to everything after.
Yes. Dining, athletics, housing and facilities can each order to their own dock with invoices going to one office.
Yes. We can be an approved local supplier alongside a national programme — which is usually where fill-in, emergency and specialty orders end up anyway.
Both. Equipment comes with design and layout help, Rent-Try-Buy so you can trial a unit in a live venue, financing, and extended warranties.
Yes — cups, napkins, bags, boxes and wraps. Minimums apply and lead times run in weeks, so start well before the semester you need it.
Call 216-325-0994. If your route runs tomorrow we can put it on the truck; if not, the showroom is open to the public and someone can collect the same day.
Phone, email, the website, or our ordering app. The app shows your usual items and more than one person can be set up on it. See ordering by app.
Tamper-evident containers, seal labels, and date and ingredient labels. With no cashier on the floor, a visible seal is the only evidence the item is still what your kitchen made.
Sustainable Packaging
We stock compostable service ware alongside conventional and reusable. Straight advice on which makes sense: compostable only helps if your hauler takes it to a compost site, and where you have a working dish room, reusable beats every disposable on cost per meal.
Quotes
Email a spreadsheet, an RFP, last year's award, or a photo of the storeroom. We price it line by line, mark anything we do not carry, and send it back in a form your procurement office can file.
Dean Supply · 3500 Woodland Ave, Cleveland
We will price what you buy now, tell you what we do not carry, and have the account open before your next order.
Call 216-325-0994 · Email help.desk@shopatdean.com · 3500 Woodland Avenue, Cleveland OH 44115
