The National DCP, LLC (NDCP), the Dunkin’ Donuts franchisee-owned distribution and purchasing cooperative today announced that it had signed an agreement to lease a distribution center in Phoenix, Arizona. With a planned opening date of October, the Phoenix center will become the seventh warehouse in the NDCP network and the first located west of the Mississippi. Not only should the new distribution center, which will deliver essentially all food, paper and equipment supplies to Dunkin’ Donuts restaurants, better serve the existing locations in the Southwest, it will also facilitate Dunkin’ Donuts’ ongoing store growth.
In January of this year, the NDCP and Dunkin’ Brands, Inc., the parent company of Dunkin’ Donuts and Baskin-Robbins, announced that they had signed a long-term, performance-based agreement for NDCP to be the exclusive supply chain provider for all Dunkin’ Donuts restaurants in the continental United States.