Food & Beverages - Boise, Idaho, United States
Direct Local Food provides an online wholesale marketplace for local food. Our customers are local farmers and wholesale buyers – specifically grocers and restaurant managers. We will be beta testing our product in Boise, Idaho, with launch expected in early June of 2013. We plan to expand to additional cities by the end of 2013.\\Farmers, grocers, and restaurants rely on relationships and reputation to buy and sell the highest quality food products, at affordable prices. Direct Local Food's online platform simplifies transactions, while building quality long-term relationships between farmers and local grocery stores and restaurants. \\Direct Local Food makes it both easier and more profitable for grocers and restaurants to offer the best local food and prices on the market. Farmers are able to locate multiple buyers in a single marketplace and move product at optimal freshness.\\Users benefit from:\• Expanded access to buyers and sellers\• Streamlined transactions with a simple and easy to use technology\• Improved record keeping and traceability\• A greater level of inventory management control\• Ability to purchase the best local food at the most competitive prices\• Increased sales, revenue, and profits for purveyors of local food\• Long-term growth of the overall market for local food