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Restaurant Depot investing $5.3M for first S.C. location in Mauldin ASHLEY BONCIMINO | STAFF
aboncimino@communityjournals.com New York-based cash and carry warehouse company Restaurant Depot is building its first South Carolina location in Mauldin with a $5.3 million investment expected to create 60 jobs in the area. Restaurant Depot plans to complete and open the 56,000-square-foot warehouse in June 2016, according to a company representative. Located on six acres in the Brookfield Corporate Center on East Butler Road, the wholesale store is ideally placed to serve the growing market between Atlanta and Charlotte, Restaurant Depot Regional Vice President Rich Danieli told Upstate Business Journal. “Not only is the market sizeable enough that it was our next priority to go to, but it’s growing as well,” said Danieli, a Clemson University graduate who said he chose the Brookfield site over several others in the area. “There are plenty of local restaurants, and it has good access right there on the highway … it fit all of our criteria.” Founded in 1990, Restaurant Depot supplies independent food businesses with food, beverages, equipment and supplies from members-only store locations 4256_Introducing Ed Stein UpstateBusJournal.pdf
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in 32 states. The company plans to hire around 40 employees locally in addition to relocating several employees from outside South Carolina, said Danieli. “The city is delighted that they chose Mauldin to locate their facility here,” said Mauldin City Administrator Trey Eubanks. “Certainly our demographics and our location demonstrate the strength that we have to benefit a company like that, and we look forward to supporting them as they complete construction and look to open next year.” Eubanks said Restaurant Depot wasn’t the only large company looking to locate in Mauldin. Last year, Fortune 500 company Esurance announced plans to invest $2.1 million and create 450 jobs for a sales and claims office in the same corporate center. The office was the company’s fifth national facility, and its second on the eastern half of the country, said Eubanks.
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