Cardinal Restaurant Supply to Close Aug. 31



No further information was provided and telephone calls and e-mails to Joe Azzarro, president, have not yet been returned.

Cardinal Restaurant Supply, a member of UniPro, was the 44th largest distributorship in the country with $118 million in sales last year, down from $119 million the previous year and $123 million in 2004.

It staffed 10 DSRs, stocked 5,600 SKUs in a 156,000-sq-.ft. warehouse that were marketed to 13,000 customers.

ID interviewed Azzaro for a company profile in the Sept. 30, 2005, edition of ID Report.

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