Gordon Food Service Store — Local services in Champaign

No frills, with limited options for what I needed. We needed help and wanted to sign up as members as we had an almost $200 cart. We bought a lot of #10 cans of food for an upcoming scouting event. The manager was too busy on the phone to help us even though he motioned for us to wait and he would be right with us. My issue was that there was another employee standing right next to him, not doing anything. Couldn't he have helped us? We waited for close to 15 minutes, then decided that it just wasn't worth waiting any more. So we just bought the stuff and will probably never go back. In his defense, they are in the middle of a remodel. However, I would have thought they would have trained other employees how to take care...

Got to say, I'm disappointed. Place used to be much better. Went in there with five things on my shopping list, they had three. Everything coffee related, for a business. They've never had the best price on coffee overall but apparently now they only have generic decaf coffee, and if you want real cane sugar in bags they expect you to buy 25 lb. I'm not running a bakery, just serving coffee. Reasonable size bags of "sugar" made in Michigan. There is no sugar cane in Michigan. I highly suspect it's beet sugar, or some other non cane sugar variety. Plan to move my coffee and coffee supply purchases to the warehouse club...

Had a great labor day sale today. Good deals on large quantities of food and common food service items. It's comparable to Sam's club but without the membership. I come in for mostly their meat when it's on sale, but the bags of chicken nuggets, chicken patties, cheese sticks, etc are all good as well, especially if you're feeding a large family. I buy these in bulk to save money and trips to the other grocery stores. Go to the website, sign up for weekly emails and see what all they...