See the true cost of buying coffee through a broadline distributor — then see what a direct, roast-to-order program could look like for your operation.
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Market note, 2025: Broadline distributor coffee costs rose 20–31% in 2024–2025. Sysco and US Foods have publicly confirmed passing full cost increases through to restaurant customers. Your contract pricing may already be stale.
Your Operation
— fill in your real numbers for an accurate picture
Total restaurant or café locations in your group
$/ lb
Check your last invoice or distributor contract — national avg is $13–15/lb in 2025
5 lbs20 lbs / week60 lbs
Industry avg for casual dining: 18–22 lbs/week per location
$/ cup
Regular drip coffee price on your menu — national median is $3.65 (Feb 2026)
Your Program · Annual Projection
Estimated Annual Savings — Direct vs. Your Current Distributor
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Savings Per Location / Year
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Recurring margin recovered annually
Savings Per Location / Month
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What hits the bottom line every 30 days
Cost Per Pound — Your Distributor vs. Java City Direct
Your Current Price$13.50 / lb
Java City Direct$9.50–$11.50 / lb all-in*
At 20 lbs/week per location across 25 locations,
your group brews roughly — cups per year.
At a menu price of $3.50, that's
— in annual coffee revenue.
Your current coffee cost represents approximately — of that revenue.
Java City direct would bring that down to approximately —.
How We Work
The Full Program
— one vendor, one relationship, one invoice
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Roast-to-Order Coffee
Ships within 24 hours of roasting. No warehouse aging. Your guests taste the difference.
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Custom Exclusive Blend
A blend built for your brand and roasted only for you. No one else carries it.
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Equipment & Consumables
Brewers, decanters, filters, syrups — everything under one program.
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Cold Brew Program
Ready-to-serve cold brew, kegs, or concentrate — built for your volume.
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Retail Bag Program
12 oz branded bags sold in your locations. Turns every table into a revenue touchpoint.
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Origin Sustainability Story
Co-branded programs in source countries. A menu story your marketing team can actually use.
Real-World Benchmark
Regional Diner Group · 170+ Locations · Western United States
We run the full beverage program for a regional diner group across the Western US — a custom exclusive blend no one else carries, all equipment and consumables, a cold brew program, and a branded retail bag their locations sell in-store. They left for a broadline distributor once. They came back. The coffee wasn't fresher, the price wasn't meaningfully lower, and the relationship wasn't better. Here's what their program looks like on a per-location basis:
~1,050
Lbs of coffee per location per year
<$11.25
Price per lb, direct roast-to-order
24 hrs
From roast to ship on every order
170+
Locations on the full program
1 vendor
Coffee, equipment, cold brew & syrups
Exclusive
Custom blend — no one else carries it
Free · No Commitment Required
Request a Free Sample Box
We'll build a sample program specific to your operation — roasted to order and shipped within 24 hours. Leave your details and a Java City rep will call you to walk through your custom analysis. No commitment. No pitch deck. Just great coffee, fresh.
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You're on the list!
A Java City rep will call you within one business day to walk through your custom analysis. Your sample box ships right after — no commitment, no pressure.
Savings estimates reflect the difference between your entered current price per pound and Java City's direct-program pricing of $9.50–$11.50/lb all-in, which includes freight and equipment service — costs that are typically billed separately or embedded in broadline distributor contracts. The $10.50/lb midpoint is used for calculation. Actual pricing varies by volume, blend configuration, and program scope. *Freight and equipment service included at no additional charge for qualified program accounts. National average pricing data sourced from Toast xtraCHEF restaurant invoice benchmarks and public commodity reporting (ICO, BLS, CNBC). This calculator is for illustrative purposes only and does not constitute a quote or binding offer.
