Wholesale Foodservice Program
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Email: wholesale@lightofdayorganics.com
Existing Wholesale Customers: Thank you for partnering with us! To support accuracy and efficiency in processing your order, we require all orders in writing, please. Please email your orders to: wholesale@lightofdayorganics.com. We check emails every day, and when we see yours, we'll prepare an invoice in Quickbooks and email it to you. Once we receive your payment via ACH or paper check, we'll ship out via USPS Priority Mail, unless you have requested a farm pick up. For arranging wholesale order pick ups at the farm, please text 231-730-1529. If you have any support questions, please call 231-228-7235 or text the farm manager at 231-730-1529.. As a very busy working farm that does not employ full time desk staff, we ask that you please leave a message if no phone answer. For emergent matters, please phone the business owner at: 231-590-2035.
NEW FOODSERVICE WHOLESALE INQUIRIES:WELCOME! Thank you for your interest in partnering with us to offer your customers delicious, Michigan made award-winning Light of Day Organics loose leaf Teas. 2025 marks our 22nd year of business, and we are wholeheartedly interested in enjoyable, long-lasting wholesale relationships which work full-circle to support everyone: all customers, partners, staff, as well as the health of our working certified USDA Organic and Demeter certified Biodynamic tea farm and our closely knit farm family.
We are pleased to offer a sliding-scale discount on bulk one pound bags to approved wholesale foodservice partners who can answer “yes” to the following questions:
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Does your business have a licensed commercial kitchen so that you may serve prepared teas?
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Are you comfortable purchasing our loose teas by the full pound? One pound of our teas yields 244 (16 ounce servings).
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Are you agreeable to putting our name on your menus, website, and other marketing materials: “Tea sourced from Light of Day Organics- Traverse City, Michigan". Sun logo or green favicons shown below are also encouraged on our Menus and Website for purpose of brand recognition.
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If yes to ALL of these questions, please complete and email your (1) New Customer Application, (2) Foodservice Agreement form , and (3) a copy of your Resale Tax ID to: wholesale@lightofdayorganics.com. Once your completed paperwork is received in full, we will review each application carefully before. reaching out to you by phone for a personal welcome, answer any questions you may have, provide training materials, and help you create your first order. We can have your first order ready for pick up or shipping via USPS Priority Mail within 2 business days. Here's a link to our Wholesale Catalogue of offerings. Please note that due to extreme labor-intensity, not every tea offering listed on our retail website or our retail-sized tins are part of our discounted wholesale program. We can offer you a very successful and profitable prepared tea program where our teas are sold by the cup, teapot, airpot, Cambro, etc. Our discount is 10% off pound bags 1-5, then 15% off orders of 6 pounds or greater. One pound of our loose leaf teas yields 244 servings if steeped only once, (though we encourage repeat steeps), with an average cost to your business of just 60 cents per 16 ounce cup. Orders must be emailed to wholesale@lightofdayorganics.com for wholesale discount, as there is not a way to issue you a wholesale sliding scale discount on our retail website at this time. Thank you.
- Want to start off slow? An alternative to pound bags (244 servings each) would be starting out your cafe with our retail-size tins (at least 50 servings each) to serve from. You may purchase those directly from our website since there is no discount on our retail-size tins due to labor-intensity and high cost of materials to produce. Once your serving tins are close to empty and are ready for a refill, you can then reach out with an order for discounted pound size bags.