Buy like a 500‑unit group. Stay independent.

MVP is a purchasing co-op, not a middleman. We pool real restaurants’ buying volume and audit purchases, so you pay what the big chains pay.

For restaurant owners, by restaurant owners.

Or call Dave: (850) 591-5061

Where we look
  • Landed cost
  • Order guides
  • Every line item
  • Contract pricing
  • Price increases
  • Bacon
  • Chicken
  • Burgers
  • Gloves
  • Trash bags
  • Ketchup
  • Cups
  • Containers
  • Chemicals
  • Cleaning supplies
  • Freight
  • Markup over cost
  • Credits owed

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.

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.

Prices that creep up while nobody’s watching.

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

Pick one, pick two, or take all three.

Each program stands on its own. Use one, two or all three, and add another whenever you want. Every one starts the same way: bring us your current bill, and we’ll show you the difference, line by line, before you commit to anything.

  • 500+ items already on contract the day you join
  • Monthly audits of your purchases
  • Market reports on what’s coming down the road

Beyond the price, advice from people who run restaurants too.

Price is where we start, not where we stop. Once you’re set up, we don’t disappear. We run restaurants of our own, and when you want a second opinion, we’re a phone call away.

Help organizing your order guide. We’ll help you clean it up and lay it out so ordering is simpler for whoever does it.

A second opinion when you want one. A vendor that’s slipping, a price that looks off, a new item you’re weighing. Ask people who deal with the same things in their own restaurants.

Your order history, when you need it. We can pull what you’ve been buying and what it’s been costing you, so the next decision starts from real numbers.

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

A call awayAdvice from people who run restaurants too(850) 591-5061

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

Restaurant owners, working together. Big group or single store, every member buys on the same national contract we do, with the buying power of the whole group behind it. We buy against every contract we negotiate, this week, in our own restaurants across South Georgia and North Florida, so when chicken jumps or freight gets weird, we feel it the same Friday you do. Day to day, MVP buys for over 100 member restaurants and convenience stores, Florida to Texas. Consultants tell you how they used to do it. We’ll show you what we did about it this morning.

Southern RoostChicken
Hog-N-BonesBarbecue
Jerry J’sSince 1985
100+ membersRestaurants and convenience stores
500+Items already on contract the day you join.
SleepBe confident your pricing holds. We keep watching it every day, so you don’t have to.
$0What you pay MVP. The distributor pays us. We’re stronger together.

How it works, in four steps.

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

  1. Your current program

    Show us your numbers. We have ours. Your order guide, a distributor invoice, whatever you have, as it is.

  2. A comprehensive analysis

    From top to bottom, every item you buy. We go line by line and into the details, not just your biggest sellers.

  3. You see the difference

    Side by side, landed cost at your back door. We’re confident our program will save you money, and keep saving you money. We’ll show you exactly where.

  4. Sign up, and MVP goes to work

    We work for YOU, not the distributor. Every month we audit to confirm you were charged the agreed percentage over cost, so you can sleep at night.

“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, and we had the contracts reloaded.

Gloves. Every line counts.
Below pre-tariff pricing

Glove costs crept up three quarters in a row. 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.

Let’s make this crystal clear. 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. And every restaurant that joins adds to the buying power we all share. We’re stronger together.

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

The same national contract we buy on. You go on our national account number, with the same negotiated terms our own restaurants get.

We don’t work for the distributor. We work for YOU. 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

35 years in the restaurant business, and still runs restaurants 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 for a second opinion on vendors and operations, 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.

Coming soon for members: a private dashboard with the number that matters on top, what MVP saved you this year. Then what you could still be saving and how every location is doing.

  • Your savings, this year and since you joined
  • A summary for every location
  • 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