For Restaurant Owners, By Restaurant Owners.

Buy like a 500‑unit group. Stay independent.

We pool real restaurants’ buying volume and audit every invoice, so you pay what the big chains pay.

Or call the office: (912) 490-0144

Where we look
  • Distributor invoices
  • Order guides
  • Top 20 movers
  • Contract pricing
  • Landed cost
  • Bacon
  • Chicken
  • Burgers
  • Gloves
  • Ketchup
  • Freight
  • Rebates
  • Counts and pars
  • Prep, waste and yield

The money you’re leaving on the table.

Three places it slips away, on items you probably have in your walk‑in right now.

Contracts that quietly stop calculating.

A member’s contracts fell off their distributor’s system. Our monthly audit caught it, and the credit posted that week.

Paying more than the big chains pay.

We pool real restaurants’ buying volume, so you buy like a 500‑unit group and pay what the big chains pay.

The small lines nobody watches.

Glove costs crept up three quarters in a row. We put them out to bid and brought them back under pre-tariff pricing.

Three programs. Every one starts with your current bill.

Bring us what you pay today. We show you the difference, line by line, before you commit to anything.

  • 400+ items already on contract the day you join
  • An audit on every distributor invoice
  • Beverage rebates paid quarterly
Beyond the price

We’ll help you run a better restaurant, too.

Price is where we start, not where we stop. Our team still runs restaurants every day, and members get that experience on call: operational consultation from people who work the same shifts you do.

Inventory and ordering. Counts, pars and order guides that hold up shift after shift, so what you buy matches what you use.

Prep, waste and yield. We walk your kitchen and look at how product gets used, like the pre-portioned chicken that cut one member’s prep labor and trim waste in the same move.

Vendors and team execution. Advice from the floor, never from a deck, on the day-to-day that decides whether the savings stick.

Dave Duff and Bengi Crosby walking a member kitchen with an order file

On call People who work the same shifts you do

“By restaurant owners” isn’t a slogan. It’s our P&L.

Every contract we negotiate, we also buy against, this week, in our own fourteen restaurants across South Georgia and North Florida. When chicken jumps or freight gets weird, we feel it the same Friday you do. And the fourteen are just the proving ground. Day to day, MVP buys for dozens of member restaurants, Florida to Texas. Consultants tell you how they used to do it. We’ll show you what we did about it this morning.

Southern Roost6 locations
Hog-N-Bones5 locations
Jerry J’s3 locations
+ member restaurantsFlorida to Texas
14restaurants we run ourselves, across Georgia and Florida
400+items already on contract the day you join
$0you ever pay MVP. The distributor pays us
Four steps

How it works

All you have to do is say yes to a meeting. Most operators know inside 30 minutes.

  1. Show us your numbers

    Your order guide, a distributor invoice. Whatever you have, as it is.

  2. We price your top movers

    Your top 20 items are most of your spend. We price them against our contracts first.

  3. You see the difference

    Side by side, landed cost at your back door. If the math doesn’t win, we shake hands and part friends.

  4. We audit every month

    We audit the distribution center monthly to confirm you were charged the agreed percentage over cost. Misses get chased to a credit. You see it all in your portal.

Member story

“You can’t afford not to utilize MVP. You don’t know what you’re missing.”

Kris “Po” MaronpotPresident of Operations, Rock & Brews (FL / TX)
5restaurants
2states
450employees

A rockstar-owned franchise group that changed broadline distributors with MVP at the table, went direct to manufacturers on burgers, chicken and bacon, and watched food cost track down toward theoretical. In his words: “It was one of the best things we could do for our business.”

What that actually looks like in dollars

Not a best-case percentage. Four real things that happened to real members, on items you probably have in your walk‑in right now.

Gloved hands lifting a pack of raw bacon from an opened case on a steel receiving table, the back door open to duskOne SKU. Bacon.
$250,000 a year, group-wide

Our purchasing team landed a new bacon contract direct with the manufacturer. Members saved between $2 and $10 a case. Across every member who buys bacon, that one item is worth about a quarter of a million dollars a year.

A cook working a flaming pan on a busy line, finished plates in the foregroundOne SKU. Their best seller.
$25,000 a year, five restaurants

A member’s number-one appetizer, the thing going out the door all night. One renegotiated SKU, one line on the order guide, twenty-five thousand dollars back into a five-unit group.

Printed invoices with one line highlighted, on a steel counter under a desk lampNobody would have found that alone.
$2,300 recovered in one audit

A member’s contracts silently fell off their distributor’s system and stopped calculating. Nobody did anything wrong; it was human error. Our monthly audit caught it, we had the contracts reloaded, and the credit posted that week.

Gloves. Nobody’s watching gloves.
Below pre-tariff pricing

Glove costs crept up three quarters in a row, the kind of small line nobody watches. We spotted the trend, put it out to bid with other manufacturers, and brought the cost back under where it sat before the tariffs.

Figures are real member outcomes described by MVP’s founders. Your savings depend on what you buy and what you’re paying now, which is exactly what the first meeting establishes.

You never write us a check.

We’ll say the strange part first, because everyone asks. Members don’t pay MVP. The distributor pays us for the volume we bring them, which means the only way we grow is by making your program worth staying in.

No membership fee, no percentage, no subscription. You will not find a line on any invoice that says MVP.

You pay what our restaurants pay. Ketchup at $10 is $10 for you. Same national account number, same negotiated cost, same freight.

We don’t work for the distributor. We work with them, and we check their work. Every month we audit the distribution center to confirm you were charged the agreed percentage over manufacturer cost. Nothing more.

Dave Duff and Kris Maronpot reading invoices together at Rock & Brews

The people who answer the phone

No ticket queue, no rep roulette. When you call MVP, you get the people whose names are on the work.

Bengi Crosby

Bengi Crosby

President & Co-Founder

Runs restaurants inside Concept 99 Group every day. The reason “by restaurant owners” is on the label.

(912) 550-6295
bengi@mvp-grp.com

James Weathersby

James Weathersby

Co-Founder

26+ years of hands-on operating across multiple concepts. Your call on inventory control, vendor relations and team execution, always from the floor.

Dave Duff

Dave Duff

Chief Operating Officer

Thirty years in foodservice distribution before crossing to the operator side. Your first call on food, freight and contracts.

(850) 591-5061
dave.duff@mvp-grp.com

Watch us work for you. Day and night.

Every member gets a private dashboard with the number that matters on top: what MVP saved you this year. Then what you could still be saving, your rebate history, and how every location is doing.

  • Your savings impact, this year and since you joined
  • Rebate history and your next payout date
  • Contract savings reports, ready to download

Give us 30 minutes.

That’s the whole ask. Bring an invoice, and we’ll show you the money you’re leaving on the table.

Give us 30 minutes

Or call Dave Duff directly: (850) 591-5061