Gator Chef Restaurant Equipment & Supply

What is established and what is not

• legal: not-established (basis: official-record, company-provided) - Legal entity behind gatorchef.com not established: the Sourcewell master agreement names Gator Chef LLC at 1808 Ogden Ave, Lisle IL 60532; the site's terms of service name Gator Chef Inc. Limits: Illinois Secretary of State business entity search answers 403 to curl; browser only; The submitted Gov ID 630.417.3107 is phone-shaped, not a registration number Next: Owner: Illinois SOS Business Entity Search (https://apps.ilsos.gov/businessentitysearch/) for GATOR CHEF: which of Inc / LLC is active, file number, status, formation date
• manufacturing: not-established (basis: official-record, company-provided) - Manufacturing is not established. Official and association records describe Gator Chef as a supplier and distributor of commercial kitchen equipment with installation and kitchen design: a Sourcewell cooperative contract for foodservice equipment, supplies and installation, and the Illinois Restaurant Association member profile (business type: Distributor). The company markets its own Serv-Ware equipment line without naming the factory that makes it. Limits: Serv-Ware: the manufacturing entity behind the brand is not named by the company Next: Ask the company who manufactures Serv-Ware products if a buyer needs it
• finance: not-established (basis: official-record) - Gator Chef is not an SEC registrant: EDGAR company search returns no matching companies. US private companies are not required to publish financial statements, so no official financial record is available. Limits: Absence of SEC filings is normal for a private company and says nothing about its financial health Next: Financial evidence can only come from the company (for example a bank reference) if a buyer needs it
• courts: not-established (basis: official-record) - The name Gator Chef appears in 8 US federal bankruptcy dockets (Northern District of Illinois 2010-2014, District of Minnesota 2019) where the debtors are restaurants (for example Belmont Pizza Inc, Street Eats Cafe Inc, Granite City Food & Brewery Ltd). Gator Chef's role in these cases (for example creditor) is not established from the search results. No case was found under the exact name Gator Chef LLC. Limits: Search covers federal courts only; Illinois state courts were not searched; A name match in a bankruptcy docket usually means a listed creditor, but the role is not read from the docket Next: Open the dockets to read Gator Chef's role; search Illinois state court records (Cook and DuPage County)
• procurement: confirmed (basis: official-record) - Sourcewell, a Minnesota public service cooperative that runs competitive solicitations, awarded contract 040726-GATR for commercial kitchen equipment with related supplies and services to Gator Chef, LLC (1808 Ogden Avenue, Lisle, IL 60532). The award was ratified by board resolution 2026_18 on 2026-07-21; the contract matures on 2030-06-22. Limits: A cooperative contract makes the company an eligible supplier to member agencies; it does not show the volume actually sold; The agreement names Gator Chef LLC, the website's terms name Gator Chef Inc.; which entity operates the business is open (see Legal entity)

A facet absent from this list has not been investigated. Absence of a statement is never a confirmation.

Facts on file, each with its evidence type

• Website domain registered (record type: domain-registered) [our own observation, not an official record; status green] Shows how long this web address has been registered. That is the age of the domain, not of the company: a domain can change owners. checked 2026-10-15. Domain registry record
• Business email on the company's own domain (record type: corporate-mail-on-domain) [our own observation, not an official record; status green] Shows the domain runs its own email rather than a free mailbox. It describes the domain, not who owns it. checked 2026-10-15. Mail server of the company domain
• No match found on the sanctions lists we checked (record type: sanctions-clear) [our own observation, not an official record; name search, no matching candidate] We searched the public sanctions datasets and found no matching candidate. A name search is not full compliance screening. Screened by name only: no legal entity is established for this record, so this is not a clearance. checked 2026-10-14. OpenSanctions
• Takes part in public tenders (record type: public-contract-awarded) [official record; status green] Public contract awarded 2026-07-21: Commercial kitchen equipment with related supplies and services (foodservice equipment, supplies, and installation); buyer: Sourcewell (Minnesota cooperative purchasing agency); contract 040726-GATR; valid until 2030-06-22; supplier named in the contract: Gator Chef, LLC. A public buyer selected this supplier through an official tender. Open the source for the contracts themselves. checked 2026-10-15. Sourcewell cooperative purchasing contract register (Minnesota)
• No match found in the debarment registers we checked (record type: debarment-clear) [our own observation, not an official record; name search, no matching candidate] We searched the public debarment datasets and found no matching candidate. Absence from these lists is a search result, not a certificate. Screened by name only: no legal entity is established for this record, so this is not a clearance. checked 2026-10-14. OpenSanctions

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