Fortessa Tableware Solutions

Fortessa Tableware Solutions™ (FTS) is an integrated designer, developer and marketer of tableware serving the commercial food service market globally as well as a rapidly growing share of the high-end consumer market. We add value to customers across a variety of industries by identifying their marketing objectives and providing solutions that enhance the profitability of their businesses. This business serves the following key market sectors:

• Commercial Foodservice inclusive of the lodging, restaurant, club, cruise line, assisted living, and distribution channels domestically and internationally.
• Consumer Products inclusive of chain and independent specialty stores, department stores, ecommerce, high end grocery, wine stores, vineyards, and direct-to-consumer channels.

Fortessa Tableware Solutions supports it multi-channel activity with differentiated and well-respected brands. FTS delivers value and business opportunity to the market.

Not only do we have a competitive advantage by being able to meet the needs of our multinational customers, but we recognize that excellence in today’s world means global excellence.

We support this global footprint with operating subsidiaries in Canada, Germany, the UAE, and the PRC as well as with carefully selected distribution partners in key markets around the world.

Rental Resource Partners

Rental Resource Partners (RRP) is a special purpose company serving the event industry, in particular the catering and rental marketplace. As caterers and event planners create memorable and beautiful events for their clients, tableware becomes a focal point of the aesthetic and guest experience. RRP has been developed as an up-market source for caterers and the rental companies that serve them when creating memorable events. RRP provides FTS products as well as industry specific products, including Bella Vita® branded collections of fashion forward designs, all supported by industry leading service.

Sterling Restaurant Supply

Sterling Restaurant Supply (SRS) is a full service restaurant supply company distributing products, including those of FTS as well as third party brands, to foodservice and catering operators. SRS complements FTS in the restaurant channel in particular by providing a convenient solution to smaller restaurant operators, by specifically appealing to the chef as they look to fulfill their creative and operational needs.

SRS operates a cash and carry restaurant supply store based at our corporate headquarters. The store provides our business customers the only place in the world to purchase seconds, overstocks, and discontinued products from our sister FTS operation. The SRS store offers such a compelling value proposition that we regularly draw business customers from as far North as New York City and as far South as the Carolinas.

In addition, SRS operates a full service ecommerce platform to serve the national market at WWW.STERLINGRESTAURANTSUPPLY.COM.

SRS also serves the needs of the value conscious upscale consumer. As a total enterprise we also benefit from this direct interaction with the consumer, as it affords us the opportunity to test new concepts and get direct consumer feedback. After years of word-of-mouth and targeted email marketing, the SRS Store has evolved into a retail destination for customers in Northern Virginia and beyond.