Metropolitan Foods Inc

City-funded organization

Metropolitan Foods Inc, operating as Driscoll Foods, is an independent family-owned foodservice distributor headquartered in Wayne, New Jersey, founded in 1971, that distributes fresh produce, meats, seafood, dairy, and grocery staples across the Northeast; it holds $4.1 million in active NYC Department of Education contracts as of August 2026 to distribute food to school kitchens across the five boroughs, and a 2022 NYC Comptroller audit found approximately $9.39 million in overbilling on a pandemic-era food distribution contract.

Industry (per city contracts)
Standardized Services
City contracts (active)
$4,070,875 · 1 contract
Awarded all-time
$737,576,718 · 25 since 2018, incl. expired
Paid to date
$539,477,797
Won without a fresh bid
100% of contract value · $736,794,058 · 13 contracts
Based in
Westbelt Wayne, NJ (out of state)

Holds contracts at

City contracts

Registered city contracts, largest first by current contract value (not amount spent): running now, then registered to start later, then ended. Totals count every registered contract. Each line shows its Checkbook contract ID. The tag on each row is how it was awarded (“no-bid” = non-competitive).

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