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Wholesale Playbook

Short reads to start selling wholesale — to restaurants, grocers, co-ops, and buying clubs.

Playbook

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How it works, start to finish

The whole process before you touch a button:

  1. Set your offer. Decide what you'll sell wholesale and at what price (Card 03) — a few cuts or a case pack, priced for a kitchen.
  2. Find buyers. The tool finds restaurants, grocers, and co-ops near you and scores each on fit. Keep your ten best.
  3. Find the right person. A generic info@ address rarely converts. The tool can find the buyer/chef and their email so you reach a human.
  4. Draft the pitch. It writes a short, specific note in your voice — what you raise, why it fits their menu/shelf, and a clear next step (a sample drop, a quick call).
  5. Send. Five a day. "Good and sent" beats "perfect and in drafts."
  6. The pipeline tracks it. Contacted → Replied → Sampling → Won. You always know who's where.
  7. Follow up. Most wholesale yeses come after a sample and a couple of polite check-ins — not the first email. The tool tells you when each is due and drafts it.
  8. Sample and close. Get product in their hands, confirm the cuts, the cadence, and the price, and set up the standing order.
  9. Deliver like clockwork. The account is yours to lose now — consistency is the product. Log it; the tool keeps reorders and check-ins on track.

The mindset: wholesale is a relationship with a built-in delay. A sample today is an order in two or three weeks. Keep the top of the pipeline full and the orders take care of themselves.