Julius Silvert

Julius Silvert, Inc. (JSI) has delivered the finest ingredients available to local restaurants for almost 110 years. As a family owned company, JSI is dedicated to providing our partners and customers with personal attention and a means for success. We stock over 5,000 different specialty food items delivering from Philadelphia reaching New York and Washington D.C. areas.

Our story begins in 1915 when a Russian immigrant by the name of Julius Silvert founded JSI after educating himself about the food industry in an agricultural school in New Jersey. He began the business through an opportunity of buying and selling products like eggs and butter through his storefront operation on Lancaster Avenue. As the business started to grow, Julius began to process bulk quantities into sellable portions for retail and larger quantities to some of the biggest names in wholesale like Acme, A&P, Foodfare, PennFruit, ARA Services (now Aramark), and the University of Pennsylvania.

Now, Silvert is a fourth-generation family run business servicing nine states, and we remain the most trusted name in food distribution.