The Chefs’ Warehouse, Inc. (NASDAQ:CHEF) Q1 2024 Earnings Call Transcript

Chris Pappas: Yes. I mean we continue to see demand there across the board. I thought with the gluten-free craze started, we wouldn’t sell any pasta. We sell lots of pasta. We sell a lot of vegetables, too, but we sell a tremendous amount of steak and what we think is the best hamburger in the market. We sell a tremendous amount of chicken. So we’re not seeing anything really change in our — the demand that we saw over the past few years, the trends. So I think it’s kind of spread out. There’s big diversity in menus and people like choices. We were talking about this the other day. Do we think menus are going to shrink? Or — many, many neighborhood restaurants, I mean, they’re serving the same customers week in, week out. They have to continue to be creative and they have to continue to give people a reason to come back.

Obviously, there’s the house favorites, but everybody likes something a little different. And I think that’s what independent restaurants do really well. They’re constantly creative, and they’re constantly making it more interesting for their patrons to keep coming back. So I think that trend continues.

Operator: Thank you. At this time, I would like to turn the call back to management for closing comments.

Chris Pappas: Well, we thank everybody for joining our call today. Chefs’ Warehouse’s team is hard at work, and they’re — I think their success is well earned, and we’re hoping for a great next quarter, and we look forward to everybody to join our call again. Thank you very much.

Operator: Thank you. This does conclude today’s teleconference. You may disconnect your lines at this time. Thank you for your participation, and have a great day.