They may supply nearby restaurants, grocers, or delicatessens with particular style(s) of bread.

Most of the baking is done for Balthazar's wholesale business, which supplies restaurants throughout the tri-state area.

The company also supplies restaurants with custom-designed thermal-plastic food containers.

The company mostly supplies fine restaurants, but its Web site, brokenarrowranch.com, has a growing audience among adventuresome home cooks.

At first, the company supplied primarily natural food stores and small restaurants and cafes.

Companies that supply restaurants are noticing the change.

Soon after, the business also began supplying restaurants.

"We don't want to supply restaurants with their weekly produce," Bob Jones said.

Last year, he supplied stores and restaurants with four million pounds of Chinese crawfish.

She has been supplying restaurants with game and other foods since 1985.