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Wholesale produce distributors in Tampa

Every other city in this directory has a market district. Tampa has the farm as well. Hillsborough County grows about fifteen percent of the nation's strawberries and nearly all of its winter berries, and the warehouses that supply the city's kitchens sit inside that same county line. It is the only metro we cover where the field and the loading dock are the same place.

  • 14 distributors, each verified against the company's own website, a federal certification list or a chamber of commerce directory, in September 2026.
  • Two wholesale markets, 22 miles apart, founded five years apart and run by different owners. No other city here has both.
  • No paid placements and no rankings. Filter by what they carry, who they sell to and how you can buy.
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14
Suppliers listed
Each verified against its own website
12
Independent houses
Local specialists and regional distributors
0
Walk-in options
Cash and carry, so no delivery minimum
1948
Oldest still trading
FreshPoint West Coast Florida

Every produce distributor we verified in Tampa

Filter by what they carry, how the business is set up, who they sell to, how you can buy, and where they are. 13 of 14 publish a phone number and 14 publish a street address; where a company does not, the field is left out rather than filled in.

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CK's Wholesale Produce

Local specialistTampa Wholesale Produce Market

Calls itself a wholesale supplier of premium, farm-fresh fruits and vegetables to restaurants, markets, farmers' market vendors and grocery stores for over 30 years. It is USDA GMP certified, listed as PSA-0392 on the federal register and audited in July 2026. Its market sales hours are open to the public from 3am to 9am, which is a working terminal market schedule rather than a retail one.

  • USDA GMP certified, PSA-0392
  • On the Tampa Wholesale Produce Market
  • Market sales hours open to the public, 3am to 9am
  • Ordering app

Serves: restaurants, markets, farmers' market vendors, grocery stores

Address
2801 E. Hillsborough Ave., Tampa, FL, 33610
Phone
(813) 237-6893
Visit ckproduce.com

Sanwa Food Group

Local specialistTampa Wholesale Produce MarketEst. 1981

Delivers what it calls farm to fresh produce alongside a diverse selection of ethnic foods and flavors to restaurants, produce markets and other food businesses. Its corporate entity is Sanwa Growers, Inc., which is the one company on this page that evidences both growing and distributing. It also runs an indoor farmers market on East Hillsborough Avenue in Seminole Heights, open to the public all week with no club fees.

  • Founded 1981 as Sanwa Growers, a farm on 160 acres in south Hillsborough County
  • Indoor farmers market at 2621 E Hillsborough Ave, open to the public with no club fees
  • Branches in Atlanta and at the Sanford State Farmers Market
  • Specialty Asian and multicultural produce

Named programmes

Sanwa FreshSanwa Specialty HerbsSanwa's Retail Market

Serves: restaurants, produce markets, small wholesale markets, delis, families buying wholesale

Address
2801 East Hillsborough Avenue, Tampa, FL, 33610
Phone
(813) 642-5159
Delivers
restaurants from Fort Myers to Gainesville, including the entire Tampa Bay area
Visit sanwafoodgroup.com

G.P.I. Tampa

Local specialistTampa Wholesale Produce Market

Describes itself as Central Florida's premier whole produce distributor and a family-owned business that has been growing for over 20 years. It sits behind the Tampa market, invites buyers to shop in both Tampa and Plant City, and publishes fifteen refrigerated trucks covering what it calls fifty miles around Tampa Bay.

  • Family owned for over 20 years
  • Second counter in Plant City
  • Fifteen refrigerated trucks, all drivers DOT certified
  • Plantains ripened in house
  • Mexican, Asian and Central American tropicals

Named programmes

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Serves: restaurants, neighborhood quick-marts, chain grocers, food service, retail

Address
2908 E Mcberry St., Tampa, FL, 33610
Phone
813-539-4201
Delivers
fifty miles around Tampa Bay, with limited capacity to around one hundred miles
Visit gpitampa.com

Coosemans Tampa

Local specialist

Part of a produce wholesaler that calls itself a leader since 1982 with over 40 years of experience and three main warehouses in Tampa, Cleveland and Miami, specializing in the distribution of high quality vegetables to wholesale producers. Its published hours open at 1am and close at 9am, and it shares a street address with another wholesaler on this page.

  • Specialty produce
  • One of three group warehouses, with Cleveland and Miami
  • Counter open 1am to 9am
  • Baby vegetables, fresh herbs, dried chiles, microgreens

Serves: (the site says "ALL BUSINESSES" and "wholesale producers", it names no customer type)

Address
5106 North 30th Street, Tampa, FL, 33610
Phone
813-238-9500
Visit coosemansinterproduce.com

Worldwide Produce Direct

Regional distributor

Supplies fresh produce to restaurants, distributors and retail outlets and says it delivers anywhere in the United States and Canada. Its own copy positions it as a restaurant produce supplier for premier national chains. It publishes a Tampa number, a separate orders line and a Miami number, and shares 5106 N 30th Street with another wholesaler listed here.

  • Supplies national restaurant chains
  • Ships anywhere in the US and Canada
  • Second number published for Miami
  • Orders on (855) 891-2535

Serves: restaurants, distributors, retail outlets, national restaurant chains

Address
5106 N 30th Street, Tampa, FL, 33610
Phone
(813) 871-5368
Delivers
anywhere in the U.S. and Canada
Visit wwproducedirect.com

Bliss Produce

Local specialist

A wholesale fresh fruit and vegetable house that says it services a number of school districts throughout West and Central Florida and works with local Florida farms to support the Florida Fruit and Vegetable Programs. It also names restaurants and specialty markets in the West Central Florida region, listing peppers, avocados, chilis, limes and cactus leaf among what it supplies.

  • Supplies school districts across West and Central Florida
  • Supports the Florida Fruit and Vegetable Program
  • Separate order forms for Polk and Pinellas county schools
  • Peppers, avocados, chilis, limes and cactus leaf

Serves: school districts, restaurants, specialty markets

Address
3119 E 3rd Avenue # from the page title tag only, see caveat, Tampa, FL, 33605
Phone
1-800-215-4236
Delivers
West and Central Florida
Visit blissproduce.com

FreshPoint West Coast Florida

National broadlineEst. 1948

A FreshPoint operating company, which is Sysco's produce division. Its own page says it was founded in 1948 as a fresh produce stand and has served the region for more than seven decades, from a 60,000 square foot facility with over 32,000 square feet of refrigerated space, a fleet of 30 trucks and more than 300 key drop deliveries a week. It names healthcare, export, foodservice, education and travel customers.

  • Founded 1948 as a fresh produce stand
  • 60,000 sq ft with 32,000 sq ft refrigerated
  • 30 temperature-controlled trucks
  • Over 300 key drop deliveries weekly
  • SQF level 2 certified
  • Publishes a coverage map you navigate by county

Named programmes

myFreshPoint.com

Serves: Healthcare, Export & Wholesale, Foodservice, Business in Industry, Education, Travel & Leisure

Address
5445 Bonacker Drive, Tampa, FL, 33610
Phone
813-316-4500
Delivers
a coverage area published as a county map
Visit freshpoint.com

What Chefs Want

Regional distributor

Trades as What Chefs Want and is registered as Creation Gardens, Inc. Its Florida page names locally sourced produce and gourmet ingredients, six-day delivery in most markets, no minimum order size and split cases on all lines. Both addresses on this row come from the USDA federal certified list rather than the company, because its own locations page returns an error.

  • Legal name Creation Gardens, Inc.
  • USDA GMP certified at Tampa and St. Petersburg
  • Second Tampa Bay site at 1955 3rd Ave S, St. Petersburg
  • Six-day delivery, no minimum order, split cases on all lines
  • Announced the acquisition of Puzycki's Produce of St. Petersburg in December 2025

Serves: restaurants, chefs, schools, foodservice operations

Address
6422 Harney Road, Tampa, FL
Delivers
(from the Puzycki's post) Tampa Bay through Daytona and along the eastern corridor
Visit whatchefswant.com

Mr Greens Produce

Regional distributorPlant City

The Central Florida branch of a produce house that also carries seafood, dairy and specialty goods, naming restaurants, catering operations, healthcare facilities and private clubs as customers. It publishes ordering 24 hours a day, late cutoffs, seven day and Sunday delivery, 365 days a year, and operates eight branches including Miami and Jacksonville.

  • Eight branches across Florida, Georgia and Texas
  • 150+ local farm partners
  • Sunday delivery, 365 days a year
  • Late cutoffs

Serves: local restaurants, catering operations, healthcare facilities, private clubs, hotel operations, restaurant groups

Address
1702 Jim Johnson Rd, Plant City, FL, 33566
Phone
863-279-1370
Delivers
Central Florida
Visit mrgreensproduce.com

Sysco Tampa Bay

National broadlinePlant CityEst. 2025

Sysco's sixth broadline facility in Florida, opened at Plant City on 24 July 2025, which the company said would create more than 300 jobs and cater to a 100 mile area of Florida. Its own portfolio line names fresh produce first. On a produce page it is the default first quote and the benchmark the specialists here get measured against.

  • Opened 24 July 2025
  • The sixth Sysco broadline facility in Florida
  • Over 300 jobs
  • Built because Sysco outgrew its Orlando facility

Serves: restaurants, healthcare and educational facilities, lodging establishments, entertainment venues

Address
475 Charlie Taylor Road, Plant City, FL, 33566
Phone
(813) 359-5800
Delivers
a 100-mile area of Florida
Visit sysco.com

Lily Jo's Produce Delivery

Local specialist

A family owned wholesale produce distributor based in Clearwater, serving restaurants and commercial kitchens in Pinellas County with delivery seven days a week. It names its range as Clearwater Beach to Safety Harbor and Palm Harbor through Dunedin down to Largo, and says it was founded by the Otto family and named after their daughter.

  • Family owned by the Otto family, named after their daughter
  • Delivery seven days a week
  • Deliberately tight service area around Pinellas
  • Offers to review your last three invoices against its prices

Serves: restaurants, commercial kitchens, chefs, restaurateurs

Address
22103 US Highway 19 N, Clearwater, FL, 33765
Phone
727-300-1940
Delivers
Pinellas County and Tampa, from Clearwater Beach to Safety Harbor, from Palm Harbor through Dunedin and down to Largo
Visit lilyjosproduce.com

Eighty Deuce Produce

Local specialist

A wholesale supplier that hand selects daily fresh produce, citrus and specialty items and delivers to restaurants, cafes, venues, residences, businesses and bars in the Tampa Bay area. It publishes that it is veteran and female owned, and that its produce specialist served with the 82nd Airborne Division. It also runs a produce marketplace in central Pinellas County offering cold storage and pickup.

  • Veteran and female owned
  • Named for the 82d Airborne Division
  • Buys at the International and Florida produce markets at 5am Monday to Saturday
  • Electric delivery vehicles
  • Cold storage and pickup at a marketplace in central Pinellas County

Serves: restaurants, cafes, venues, residences, businesses, bars

Address
4747 28th Street North, Saint Petersburg, FL, 33714
Phone
727-426-4297
Delivers
the Tampa Bay Area
Visit eightydeuceproduce.com

Tropical Sales of Florida

Local specialistPlant City State Farmers Market

This row comes from the Plant City Chamber of Commerce business directory rather than a company website, because the company publishes none. The chamber's text describes a wholesale fresh produce distributor to independent grocers in Florida, employing almost 50 people primarily in Polk and Hillsborough counties, and 100% family owned. The address is on the Plant City State Farmers Market.

  • On the Plant City State Farmers Market
  • Almost 50 employees
  • 100% family owned
  • Publishes no website

Serves: independent grocers in Florida

Address
1305 W Dr MLK Jr Blvd Ste 7, Plant City, FL, 33563
Phone
(813) 704-6060
Delivers
primarily Polk and Hillsborough counties

Fresh Pak Produce

Local specialistPlant City State Farmers Market

This row comes from the Plant City Chamber of Commerce business directory rather than a company website, because the company publishes none. The chamber lists it under produce sales, brokers and packers, and its entire about text is four words: wholesale produce company. The address is on the Plant City State Farmers Market.

  • On the Plant City State Farmers Market
  • Listed by the chamber under Produce Sales, Brokers & Packers
  • Publishes no website
Address
1307 W MLK Jr Blvd, Plant City, FL, 33563
Phone
(813) 754-7657

The county that feeds this city also grows the crop

Hillsborough County produces about fifteen percent of the country's strawberries and nearly all of its winter berries, and the growers association puts the impact at more than a billion dollars across over fifteen thousand acres. Plant City, where most of that sits, is inside the same county as Tampa. When a broadliner describes its site there as a 158 acre property in Hillsborough County off Interstate 4, it is describing a warehouse in a strawberry district.

That is genuinely unlike the rest of this directory. Chicago, New York, Baltimore, Philadelphia and Cleveland all have a market district and none of them has the farm. In those cities produce arrives. Here, for part of the year and part of the catalog, it does not have to.

The practical consequence is seasonal rather than constant. Most of what a Tampa kitchen buys still comes from the same national and Mexican supply chains as everywhere else, and nobody on this page claims otherwise. What the location buys you is a genuinely short chain on the crops this county grows, in the months it grows them, which is worth asking any supplier here about directly.

SupplierProduceSeafoodDairyDeliversWalk-in counterSame-day availableShips nationally
CK's Wholesale Produce
Sanwa Food Group
G.P.I. Tampa
Coosemans Tampa
Worldwide Produce Direct
Bliss Produce
FreshPoint West Coast Florida
What Chefs Want
Mr Greens Produce
Sysco Tampa Bay
Lily Jo's Produce Delivery
Eighty Deuce Produce
Tropical Sales of Florida
Fresh Pak Produce

A blank cell means the company does not list that line on its own site, not that it cannot get it. Most of these houses will source outside their published range for an account they want. Columns showing only one supplier are hidden to keep the grid readable.

Two wholesale markets, 22 miles apart, and only one is in Tampa

The Tampa Wholesale Produce Market on East Hillsborough Avenue is privately run and dates to 1934, when the trade was consolidated out of a scattering of open-air dealing in Ybor City into one enclosed terminal. It runs Monday to Saturday from 3am to 10am. Five of the suppliers on this page work from that address or the street behind it.

The Plant City State Farmers Market is a different animal entirely: established 1939, twenty-one acres, and one of twelve markets the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services operates directly. It houses wholesalers, growers, shippers, packing companies and truck brokers together, and turned over thirty-three million dollars in a recent reported year.

One private terminal and one state-run market is a combination no other city in this directory has. For a buyer it means two different mornings with two different characters, and it is worth knowing that the state market is where the growing side of the trade sits while the city terminal is where the distributing side does.

Supplier typeCatalogCuttingMinimumDeliveryBest for
Local specialist9 hereNarrow, protein onlyCuts to your specificationUsually negotiableScheduled, local routesMenus where the cut is the dish
Regional distributor3 hereBroader, may run past proteinSome, varies by houseSet per accountMulti-state or multi-marketGroups wanting fewer accounts
National broadline2 hereEverything, one invoicePortion programs, fixed specsDrop-size drivenFixed schedule, wide coverageConsolidating staples and dry goods

The count column is computed from the listings above. The rest describes how each business model typically works, not a term any individual company has published. Minimums and delivery days are always set per account, so treat this as a shortlist tool, not a quote.

The big suppliers went to the strawberry district, not the city

Every large delivered supplier with a Tampa Bay facility put it in Plant City rather than Tampa. Gordon Food Service took over a one-million-square-foot distribution center there in January 2010. Sysco opened Sysco Tampa Bay there on 24 July 2025, describing it as its sixth broadline facility in Florida and saying it would create more than three hundred jobs and serve a hundred-mile area. Mr Greens runs its Central Florida branch from the same town.

Meanwhile the independents stayed put on East Hillsborough Avenue, inside the city, on and around the 1934 market. So the geography of this trade is the opposite of the usual pattern: the big boxes are twenty-two miles east and the specialists are the ones close in.

What that means when you are shortlisting is that distance is a poor proxy for service here. A Plant City broadliner running a hundred-mile radius reaches you more reliably than the mileage suggests, and a city-market specialist may be five minutes away and expect you to come to it at four in the morning. Ask which it is before you ask about price.

The bay splits this metro into two buying areas

Tampa Bay is not a single market to buy in, because the water is in the way. The Pinellas independents on this page stay in Pinellas: one describes a tight service area around Pinellas and Tampa and names its range as Clearwater Beach to Safety Harbor and Palm Harbor down to Largo, and another runs a produce marketplace in central Pinellas County. Neither is pretending to cover the whole bay.

The cash-and-carry trade read the same split years ago. When a national warehouse chain opened in Largo in 2012, the local reporting framed it around Pinellas customers who had been driving across the bay bridges to shop at the Tampa store. That is a real cost in time, and it is the reason a Pinellas kitchen should shortlist Pinellas suppliers first.

Our listings sit in six separately named municipalities across Hillsborough and Pinellas counties, and each row shows its own city rather than being relabeled as Tampa. Florida is the one state on this site where the county rather than the city is the working unit, and this metro is the clearest illustration of why.

The shape of Tampa's supplier base

Counted from the 14 listings above. Change the view, then narrow by supplier type to see how the mix shifts.

Produce14
Dairy2
Seafood2
Asian1
Dry goods1
Meat1

14 suppliers in view. Bars count suppliers carrying each product line, so they add up to more than 14: most suppliers carry several.

Where each of these rows actually came from

Twelve rows are written from the company's own website or from the USDA federal list of certified operations, and two are not. Those two come from the Plant City Chamber of Commerce business directory, because the companies publish no website at all, and each card says so. That is the same treatment as the fourteen Baltimore rows sourced from a state market directory: thin, declared, and better than absent.

Three details in this metro would have become wrong facts if we had trusted an extraction instead of reading. The chamber publishes its own phone number identically on all nine of its member pages, so an automated pull puts one number on nine businesses. One company's local number is labelled as its fax on the same page that lists it in a grid of numbers. And one large chain's only matches for the word produce in this metro's captures are image filenames, which is exactly the defect that once shipped on our Baltimore page, so it is not listed here.

Two pairs of companies share a street address and both pairs are legitimate: these are market buildings, and two businesses at one market door is the normal arrangement rather than a duplicate. Several growers were excluded for the opposite reason. A farm that makes no wholesale claim on its own site is not a distributor, however much produce it grows, and only one company here evidences both in the present tense.

Unfiltered

What people say about buying produce in Tampa

24 comments quoted verbatim from public threads, researched specifically for this city rather than reused from elsewhere on the site.

r/tampa12 points
If you're not from Tampa or St Pete, you should know there is an area nearby called plant city that is home to probably close to a hundred farms where you can get fresh, local produce for next to nothing. Especially if you buy in bulk
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r/tampa7 points
Yes. There's a monthly market at keel and curly. They actually grow some of the produce sold there. But honestly, one of my favorite hobbies is googling and making a list of farms in plant city and just stopping by on a Saturday and checking out what they have. I don't think most of us realize how much food is grown about 30 minutes away and they sell their produce for realistic prices
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r/tampa16 points
High chance that any roadside fruit/veg stand will have Plant City strawberries at this time of year. Even Sanwa farmers market on Hillsborough will Have them.
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r/tampa8 points
They could have gotten the strawberries from one of the many local strawberry farms around the area. Just because they were good last time does not mean they are as good today and depending on the delivery, they come from different farms.
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r/tampa3 points
They just aren't really financially feasible for the majority of the population. Great place to go if you make six figures and don't mind spending $10 on a drink and paying double for local produce that you can get in plant city for pennies on the dollar.
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r/tampa2 points
Detwiler's does a lot of business with Mennonite farms in Michigan, Ohio, etc. They do buy local as well but they definitely fill quite a bit from up north.
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Pulled from r/tampa and r/StPetersburgFL, collected in September 2026 and quoted unedited. Unlike most corpora here this one is mostly buyers rather than operators: exactly one of the 24 is an insider. It is published because the question it keeps asking, whether a stall grew what it sells or bought it from a wholesaler on Hillsborough Avenue, is the same question a kitchen asks about a supplier. Its own corpus: no comment here appears on any other page of this site. Comments are unedited and link back to the original thread. They are individual experiences, not evidence about any distributor in general, and we deliberately do not aggregate them into a score.

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Questions

Produce distributors in Tampa: common questions

How many wholesale produce distributors are there in Tampa?

We verified 14, across Hillsborough and Pinellas counties. Twelve are written from the company's own website or the USDA certified list, and two from the Plant City Chamber of Commerce directory because those companies publish no site. That is not the number in the metro, which nobody knows; it is the number whose details we could read from a source and stand behind.

Where is the Tampa wholesale produce market?

There are two, and only one is in Tampa. The Tampa Wholesale Produce Market is at 2801 East Hillsborough Avenue, privately run, dating to 1934 and open Monday to Saturday from 3am to 10am. The Plant City State Farmers Market is 22 miles east, established 1939 on a 21-acre site, and is one of twelve markets the state agriculture department operates directly.

Can I buy produce at the Tampa market without a business account?

At least one supplier on the city market publishes market sales hours open to the public, from 3am to 9am, and another runs an indoor farmers market that says it is open all week with no club fees. Terms are each company's to set and the hours are genuinely early, so call before you drive. Several other suppliers here are delivery businesses that expect an account first.

Why are the big distributors in Plant City rather than Tampa?

Because that is where the land and the crop are. Plant City is in the same county as Tampa and sits in the strawberry district, and every large delivered supplier with a Tampa Bay facility built there: Gordon Food Service from January 2010, Sysco from July 2025, and Mr Greens for its Central Florida branch. The independents stayed on East Hillsborough Avenue inside the city.

Do Tampa suppliers deliver across the bay to Pinellas?

Some do and some deliberately do not. The Pinellas independents here describe Pinellas service areas in their own words, naming ranges like Clearwater Beach to Safety Harbor and Palm Harbor to Largo. The bay is a real constraint on a delivery route, so a Pinellas kitchen should read the published service area on the listing rather than assuming metro-wide coverage.

Are any of these companies growers as well as distributors?

Only one evidences both in the present tense: its corporate entity is registered as a growing company and it also distributes. Several well-known local farms were excluded because a grower that makes no wholesale claim on its own website is not a distributor, which is the same rule that kept a bakery off our Philadelphia page. Being in a growing region does not make a company a grower.

How were these Tampa listings verified?

Each was read off the company's own site, the USDA list of certified operations, or the Plant City Chamber directory, and captured to file in September 2026. Where a company publishes no address or phone, the field is empty because it published none. Five domains in this metro do not resolve at all, including one whose company the trade press names as a market receiver, and that absence is a finding rather than a gap.

Is this directory paid or independent?

No distributor paid to be listed and there are no affiliate links to any of them. The directory is published by VoiceOrder Solutions, an ordering software company, and that relationship is disclosed in the footer of every page and on our about page.

A note on what is missing

Two known gaps. Greco and Sons, a large Chicago Italian foodservice distributor now being acquired by Sysco, is not listed because its site blocked our capture and we would not write it up from third-party sources. Stock Yards is a US Foods brand rather than an independent distributor, so it appears under US Foods rather than as its own listing. If you run a Tampa produce distribution business and we have missed you, that is an omission rather than a judgement.

Listings verified September 2026. Details change; always confirm terms on a call.