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Founded in 1885, Performance Food Group distributes food and related products domestically. It operates through three segments: Performance Foodservice; Vistar, which focuses on snack foods and beverages; and Core-Mark, providing convenience store services. The company sells a wide range of products including frozen food, candy, cigarettes, and beauty items. PFG engages with a variety of businesses, from small independent restaurants to large institutions like hospitals.

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Good day and welcome to PFG's Fiscal Year Q2 twenty twenty five Earnings Conference Call. I would now like to turn the call

over to Bill Marshall, Vice President, Investor Relations for PFG. Please go ahead, sir.

Thank you and good morning. We're here with George Holm, PFG's CEO Patrick Hatcher, PFG's CFO and Scott McPherson, PFG's COO. We issued a press release this morning regarding our twenty twenty five fiscal second quarter results, which can be found in the Investor Relations section of our website at pfgc.com. During our call today, unless otherwise stated, we are comparing results to the results in the same period in fiscal twenty twenty four. The results discussed on this call will include GAAP and non GAAP results adjusted for certain items.

A reconciliation of these non GAAP measures to the corresponding GAAP measures can be found in the back of the earnings release. Our remarks on this call and in the earnings release contain forward looking statements and projections of future results. Please review the cautionary forward looking statements section in today's earnings release and our SEC filings for various factors that could cause our actual results to differ materially from our forward looking statements and projections. Now, I'd like to turn the call over to George.

Thanks, Bill. Good morning, everyone, and thank you for joining our call today. Our company remained active during the fiscal second quarter continuing to build upon our underlying business momentum, while adding new avenues for growth through targeted acquisitions. I'm very pleased with the results and believe we are well positioned to accelerate our growth through the back half of the fiscal year. This morning, I will review some of the high level trends in our business and industry and touch upon our early accomplishments integrating both Jose Santiago and Cheyney Brothers.

I will then turn the call over to Scott, who will review details of our segment results for the quarter. Finally, Patrick will review our financial position, key priorities and guidance for the balance of fiscal twenty twenty five. Let's begin with an overview of our second quarter results and the industry factors influencing performance. We are pleased to see an acceleration in our underlying organic growth in the fiscal second quarter through a combination of steady market share gains and an improving consumer backdrop. In particular, our organic independent restaurant case volume grew 5% in the quarter stepping up from the 4.3% we reported in the fiscal first quarter.

Keep in mind, this result includes a difficult year over year comparison in December, primarily due to calendar differences compared to the prior year. In October and November combined, our organic independent restaurant case volume was up over 7%. As we move through January, our case volume reaccelerated in part due to easier comparisons, but also reflecting the strength of our underlying business. I continue to believe we can achieve fiscal year twenty twenty five six percent independent case growth with some help from the macro. My confidence is underpinned by several factors including the excellent work of our foodservice teams.

We continue to build our organization through targeted hiring of talented salespeople and have increased the pace of sales force hiring. Turning to our Vistar segment, business picked up modestly in the fiscal second quarter following a challenging start to the year. Total cases grew 1.4% for Vistar in the fiscal second quarter with broad growth across many channels. In particular, the vending, office coffee services and corrections channels saw positive case and sales growth in the quarter. Theater box office revenue was strong in the final months of the calendar year, reflecting high demand content.

This by itself is encouraging for the long term health of the movie theater channel. As we discussed last quarter, we anticipate a better back half of the fiscal year for Vistar due to improving consumer sentiment and easier year over year comparisons. Similarly, our convenience business is building momentum on both the top and bottom lines. As we have discussed on prior earnings calls, the convenience industry has been challenged largely due to significant inflationary pressure in candy and snacks. However, we remained encouraged by Core Mark's ability to win market share and outpace key categories compared to industry peers.

Food service into convenience remains a large driver of our performance, but candy and other key non nicotine categories have also boosted volume performance through low single digit growth. As our legacy business continues to perform well, our integration team has been hard at work welcoming the teams from both Jose Santiago and Cheyney Brothers. Early in the fiscal second quarter, we closed on the Cheyney Brothers acquisition have included their results in our numbers beginning on the closing date. As we discussed when we announced the deal, we have high expectations for Cheyney and I have admired their success for many years. I am pleased to say that they have made substantial progress in the months since becoming part of PFG and early results have been very strong.

The past few months have not been without challenges, particularly in the Southeast markets that have been impacted by weather, including hurricanes and a slow recovery from the consumer. However, the Cheyney Brothers team is proving to be formidable at managing through these challenges and continues to grow at a brisk pace. Jose Santiago has performed well. This organization joined PFG early in the fiscal year and we remain pleased with the results. We believe Puerto Rico will be an increasingly important market and Jose Santiago's strong market position provides an excellent platform for growth.

We are excited to see what the future holds. Keep in mind that both Cheyney Brothers and Jose Santiago have slightly different seasonal patterns than legacy PFG with strong winter selling seasons. As a result, we expect nice contribution to our top and bottom lines, particularly in our fiscal third quarter. Taken together, PFG had an excellent fiscal second quarter with contribution from all three of our business segments. Our diversification strategy across the food away from home market continues to pay dividends and provide significant areas of growth opportunity for the long term, which we believe is unique to PFG.

I'd now like to turn the call over to Scott McPherson. In December, we announced Scott's promotion to Chief Operating Officer effective at the beginning of the calendar year. We were thrilled to welcome Scott to our team through the Core Mark acquisition and we greatly value the high level management expertise he has brought to PFG. In addition to running Core Mark in 2023, Scott assumed oversight of the Vistar segment and in 2024 was named our Chief Field Operations Officer giving him responsibility for all three business segments. In the role of COO, Scott will continue to oversee our business segments and strengthen his influence across our organization and industry.

I've asked Scott to join our earnings calls to provide additional insight into our business operations. He will also be available to take your questions during the Q and A portion of our call. Scott assumed the Chief Operating Officer role from Craig Hoskins. I cannot speak highly enough about the contributions Craig has made to our organization. Craig was the VP Sales of Multi Foods Distribution Group in 02/2002, which was our first acquisition, which later became Vistar.

He also served as the CEO of our Performance Customized division and then also CEO of our Performance Foodservice division before ascending to three years as the President and Chief Operating Aiding Officer of PFG. Craig did an excellent job onboarding Scott into his new role. I'm thrilled to have Craig as our Chief Development Officer as we announced in December. In this role, Craig will work closely with Jose Santiago and Cheney Brothers as we integrate those organizations into PFG. I'll now turn the call over to Scott McPherson.

Thank you, George, and good morning, everyone. I'm excited to join today's call and share some insights into our performance, the broader market and some of the initiatives that will help PFG maintain our long track record of growth and operational execution. Before I jump in, I want to reflect on my journey to the CLO role over the past three years. Coming to a company through acquisition is not always the easiest transition, but it quickly became evident why PFG excels in this space. We target well run companies and leverage that talent and knowledge they possess for the betterment of the Groveland organization.

This approach has created a culture that embraces growth, welcomes change and inspires people to go the extra mile. During the past year, I've had the opportunity to interact with PFG associates across our entire business platform. I've seen firsthand the dedication that our associates bring to work every day, which is instrumental in our ability to exceed the high expectations we set for ourselves. I want to highlight a few examples of the talented and dedicated associates that make PFG different. In our Vistar segment, Jose Luis Arias started as a sanitation specialist with our organization over fifty years ago, advancing to become a CDL driver and this year will eclipse the 3,000,000 mile mark accident free.

Our core market SVP of HR, Ali Marciano was named the top woman in convenience, one of the industry's top honors and at PFS, Jasmine Dan was the recipient of the twenty twenty five Women's Food Service Forum Changemaker Award. It's individuals like Jose, Ali and Jasmine that inspire our 40,000 associates to come to work every day with a passion to succeed. Now let's take a deeper look into our three operating segments starting with our Foodservice business. Foodservice had an outstanding second quarter driven by case volume growth across our independent and chain accounts, solid margin improvement and expense control. Both Cheyney Brothers and Jose Santiago contributed nicely to these results producing double digit top and bottom line performance for the segment.

Stripping out the benefit of these two acquisitions, our underlying business momentum was strong. Organic independent case growth of 5% and low single digit case increases in our chain business produced approximately 3% total organic case growth for foodservice in the quarter. We are pleased to see our chain business adding top line growth and anticipate even better performance in the second half of the year due to new business wins and signs of stabilization from some of the more challenged accounts. We also continue to pick up new independent accounts. Our 5% organic independent case growth was driven by a 5% growth rate in new accounts as penetration across the full quarter was flat.

With that said, excluding the difficult December calendar comparison penetration was up in independent and total food service in October and November. While we're certainly not back to normalized levels of restaurant performance, we are seeing early signs of stabilization. Within our independent business, PFG's company owned brands continue to be a significant growth driver. These brands account for nearly 53% of total sales in the independent channel. As we've discussed in the past, brands growth is a key strategy as they provide high quality and great value to our customers, enhance our margins and increase customer retention.

our brand portfolio will continue to be a key strategic initiative going forward. Also key to our growth is continuing to attract talented sales associates which helped drive our independent case growth. In the second quarter, our sales force headcount increased nearly 7% as we added over 200 new sales associates compared to the same period last year. From a profit perspective, positive mix shift due to faster independent growth along with more profitable chain business drove gross margin performance in the quarter. Our focus on operating metrics including reducing shrink and workforce efficiency produced leverage to our gross profit performance leading us to a 29.4% growth in adjusted EBITDA for the quarter.

In our Convenience segment, the underlying industry fundamentals remain challenged as anticipated. However, a combination of new account growth and market share gains resulted in a positive total volume in the period, outpacing the industry in key product categories. The declines in cigarette carton sales were a drag to top line performance, though these declines have had minimal impact on our bottom line results. Our convenience team continues to roll out new food service offerings for customers, which is becoming a key part of our growth story. In the fiscal second quarter, food service cases in the convenience increased at a mid single digit pace with sales growing at a high single digit clip.

Importantly, this growth is coming from some of our largest accounts including double digit sales growth in three of the top five accounts we service. The number of turnkey convenience food service programs sold has grown steadily since the beginning of fiscal twenty twenty four. We are proud of the progress our Cromart team has made and believe there is much more to come down the road. These efforts produced another double digit performance for the Convenience segment with adjusted EBITDA of 28.5% in the second quarter on a purely organic basis. At our Investor Day in late May, we will cover the progress Core Mark has made since being acquired, which will highlight strong profit growth.

Finally, Vistar made progress in the second quarter despite some difficult industry dynamics. Case growth from some of Vistar's largest channels, including office coffee services, theater and corrections produced low single digit case increases for the segment. Vistar's largest channel, vending also saw case increases year over year. The legacy vending machine business declines continue to be offset by growth in micro markets, which we include in our vending channel reporting. We are optimistic about the micro market channel, which is not only a growth area for the industry, but allows for a wider product assortment and ultimately higher profit realization for Vistar.

The theater business also had a strong quarter despite heightened competition in the market. We are pleased to see strong box office results with high quality content and believe it is a positive sign for the long term health of the channel. With that said, we do expect some near term volatility due to competitive pressures and a lighter box office slate in the fiscal third quarter. This is all included in our projections. Taken together, all three segments contributed a strong second quarter and the outlook is bright.

We are pleased with the standalone results at each segment, but are even more excited with the power we generate when our businesses join forces to serve our broad spectrum of accounts. I will now turn the call over to Patrick who will review our financial performance and outlook. Patrick?

Thank you, Scott. I'm excited to share some of the financial details from our second quarter and first half of fiscal twenty twenty five. As George and Scott have detailed, our business is executing well, driving strong operational results. This translated into another quarter of robust financial performance. Both our sales and adjusted EBITDA came in above the upper end of our guidance ranges we laid out three months ago.

Furthermore, we continue to use our cash flow and balance sheet to drive long term shareholder value. Let's review some highlights from our fiscal second quarter. PFG's total net sales grew 9.4% in the quarter. Our result was aided by the addition of both Jose Santiago and Cheney Brothers. However, excluding the acquisition benefits, all three of our segments produced positive organic case growth in the quarter.

In particular, total independent restaurant cases were up 19.8% in the period. Excluding the acquisition benefit, organic independent cases were up 5% for the quarter. We are pleased with our organic independent case growth result, which was an acceleration from the prior two quarters despite a very difficult December comparison due to calendar differences. As George described, combining October and November, our organic independent case growth was more than 7%. Early in the fiscal third quarter, we saw faster underlying case growth in our independent restaurant business.

We remain optimistic with respect to our growth, though we would note that January was impacted by a number of factors, including an easy comparison due to tough weather last year somewhat offset by a choppy start to calendar 2025 due to unusual weather across various regions of The United States. Looking past the January noise, which is typically the smallest volume month of the year, we are optimistic for the balance of fiscal twenty twenty five. Total company cost inflation was about 4.6% for the second quarter, slightly lower than the 5% we reported in the first quarter. Foodservice cost inflation was 3.2% in the quarter, moving down sequentially and roughly in line with our expectation for long term inflation rates. We would note elevated year over year inflationary prices in poultry, cheese and beef, three of our largest categories in foodservice.

Cost inflation for Vistar was roughly 2% in the quarter, while convenience experienced cost inflation of 6.7%. Keep in mind that convenience inflation is typically boosted by cigarettes and other nicotine pricing, which is typically in the mid to high single digit range. Sequential inflation produced a modest year over year inventory holding gain benefit in the second quarter, though within the normal range of holding gain variances. Given our current projections, we are modeling very little year over year holding gain impact over the back half of the fiscal year. Total company gross profit increased 14.4% in the fiscal second quarter, representing a gross profit per case increase of $0.29 in the quarter as compared to the prior year's period.

We've continued to see excellent cost control producing another quarter of double digit profit performance from our Foodservice and Convenience segments. Both Foodservice and Convenience produced 29.428.5% adjusted EBITDA growth in the quarter respectfully. Vistar's adjusted EBITDA growth turned positive year over year, though the segment continues to be impacted by lower foot traffic and customer specific challenges in some channels. We continue to anticipate Vistar's results will improve in the back half of the fiscal year. In the second quarter of fiscal twenty twenty five, PFG reported net income of $42,400,000 Adjusted EBITDA increased 22.5% to $423,000,000 above the high end of the guidance we announced last quarter.

Diluted earnings per share in the fiscal second quarter was $0.27 while adjusted diluted earnings per share was $0.98 an 8.9% improvement year over year. Our effective tax rate was 25.2% in the fiscal second quarter. We anticipate a higher tax rate in the back half of the fiscal year closer to our historical range. Turning to our financial position and cash flow performance. In the first six months of fiscal twenty twenty five, PFG generated $379,000,000 of operating cash flow.

After adjusting for $2.00 $4,000,000 of capital expenditures, PFG delivered free cash flow of about $175,000,000 We have selectively invested in inventory of candy and tobacco through the first half of the year in anticipation of potential price increases in those categories. Still the team did an excellent job managing working capital to drive the strong cash flow performance in the period. Our capital spending levels remain fairly steady over the first two quarters of the fiscal year with a run rate of approximately $100,000,000 per quarter. In our legacy business, we expect to maintain a similar level of spending over the next several quarters to maintain our growth investments in facilities, fleet and other technology. We will then layer in some additional capital expense to support growth projects at both Cheyney Brothers and Jose Santiago.

These capital projects are important to the long term growth of our company and typically generate a high rate of return. During the fiscal second quarter, we drew down our ABL facility by approximately $2,000,000,000 to fund the Cheyney Brothers acquisition, which closed in early October. As we discussed last quarter, this pushes our net leverage above the top end of our 2.5 times to 3.5 times target range. We feel very comfortable with our current leverage and the available liquidity of our ABL facility. Still as we highlighted in November, we expect to prioritize debt reduction in the short term to move our leverage back within our target range over the next several quarters.

We believe this is the best use of capital at this time and will position us to look at additional M and A and share repurchases opportunistically in the future. In fact, our M and A pipeline is very robust. PFG has a history of successful acquisitions to drive growth and we expect that to continue. At the same time, we will apply our typical high standards and robust due diligence to target high quality acquisition opportunities. Opportunistic share repurchases also remain an important component of our capital allocation strategy.

As we prioritize debt reduction and look out for value creating M and A, we will likely repurchase fewer shares in the near term. However, all of our capital allocation decisions are based on marketplace conditions and we envision a return to higher levels of share buybacks in the future. Turning to our guidance for fiscal twenty twenty five. For the full fiscal year, we now expect net sales to be within a $63,000,000,000 to $64,000,000,000 range, which is a $500,000,000 increase on both ends from the $62,500,000,000 to $63,500,000,000 range we discussed last quarter. Our net sales have been trending favorably and we anticipate this to continue in the back half of the fiscal year.

We also see upside to our profit forecast. We now anticipate full year 2025 adjusted EBITDA to be in the range of $1,725,000,000 to 1,800,000,000 an increase to the bottom end of our previously disclosed target. Our increased outlook to both sales and adjusted EBITDA is based on strong underlying fundamentals of our three business segments, a modestly improved consumer outlook and strong early results from both Cheyney Brothers and Jose Santiago. For the third quarter of twenty twenty five, we anticipate net sales to be in a $15,200,000,000 to $15,600,000,000 range with adjusted EBITDA in a $390,000,000 to $410,000,000 range. As you can see from our third quarter projections, the addition of both Cheyney Brothers and Jose Santiago helps smooth out some seasonal volatility our business has historically experienced.

As George mentioned earlier, both Cheyney Brothers and Jose Santiago typically experienced stronger winter months due to their geographies. To summarize, PFG built upon a strong start to fiscal twenty twenty five with better than anticipated second quarter growth on both the top and bottom lines. Our financial position is strong and we are generating substantial cash flow, which we are investing behind growth initiatives and debt reduction. We also believe both additional M and A and share repurchase activity will play important roles in creating long term shareholder value. The integrations of both Cheyney Brothers and Jose Santiago are going well and we are on pace to achieve the financial targets we set out for these deals.

We are optimistic for the back half of the fiscal year, allowing us to increase our full year guidance. Our diverse business model spanning a wide range of food away from home channels provides growth opportunities that our teams are actively pursuing and we are hiring talented salespeople to capture this growth. Thank you for your time today. We appreciate your interest in Performance Food Group. And with that, George, Scott and I would be happy to take your questions.

And we will take our first question from Kelly Bania with BMO Capital. Please go ahead.

Good morning. Thanks for taking our questions. Just was curious if you could comment a little bit more in-depth about which segments are contributing to the higher sales outlook. Is that kind of broad based across the three segments or the M and A? And maybe you can fold into that just more specifics on the comments that you made about signs of stabilization for the consumer and some signs of stabilization in some of the challenged accounts.

I think that was in regard to foodservice, but any elaboration there?

Good morning, Kelly. This is Scott. Yes, on the second sales piece, obviously, really happy with how our trends look on independent growth. We're up in AM headcount about 7%. We're up in new accounts about 5%.

And the other thing that we feel really good about is our lines per order on our existing accounts continue to go up. So we feel like if the macro swings back a little bit, we're in a really good position. The other thing I'd say that was optimistic in the food space was our chain accounts, our national chains were up as well, which is a little bit of a rebound from what we've seen in the past. On the convenience side, I would say, we just continue to take share and outperform the macro and convenience and we expect that to continue and we feel like really in both of those we have a really solid pipe as well as we finish out the back half of the year. Anything else?

Yes, I would say that we're going to see some continued challenges in Vistar the rest of this fiscal year, although we're up against some easier comparisons. So we see several of the channels that will show some good growth, but that will be kind of our laggard from a sales growth standpoint, the rest of this fiscal.

Okay. That makes sense. And there was a comment about cost of goods optimization and procurement efficiencies. Can you just elaborate on that? It doesn't seem like that has been a focus of the organization as much in the past.

Maybe I'm wrong, but can you just tell us about the work you're doing on cost of goods optimization and also which segments that should impact?

So, Kelly, this is Scott. Yes, I would say it's been something that has always been maybe some we haven't talked about as much, but always something that's been in play. I would say that we've worked a lot harder and collaborating across the segments over the past twelve to eighteen months, which has helped us gain some traction, both in driving sales growth, but also in cost of goods optimization. So definitely something we're focused on, we'll continue to focus on and just part of our strategy around the growing margins.

Thank you. We will take our next question from Edward Kelly with Wells Fargo. Please go ahead.

Hi. Good morning, everybody. I wanted to start on the Foodservice business and just your thoughts on sort of like underlying momentum of the business. You grew EBITDA obviously very well this quarter. I was curious if you could help us with the underlying EBITDA growth of the business.

I think if you take out the deals, kind of thinking like maybe mid single digit EBITDA growth on about 3% organic case growth. Just curious if that's right and how you think about that performance. And then looking forward, to get the 6% independent organic growth for the year, you probably need to do 7% to eight percent in the back half. Just color on your confidence in that outlook?

Yes, you're correct that it's going to take a 7% to 8% increase the back half. And at least our internal measurements how we look at the marketplace and what information we get from outside of our company. It appears there was probably a 2% maybe reduction in traffic, which is probably about where independent was. So if that got just back to normal, we would be running in that 7% to 8% increase in cases. We do expect that to get better.

Have not seen that yet. We thought we would have easier comparisons in January and our January growth looks pretty similar to Q2 and we thought it would be better, but we had bad weather both years. So just the fact that this year we were able to do a little better job of overcoming that bad weather, I think bodes well for us also. But I would say for us to get to that 6% for the year, we're probably going to need some help from the industry and see a little better macro backdrop than what we see today. But we just see signs that that's coming.

Also, the other thing that gives us a lot of confidence is that we're growing our SKUs, our line items at a much faster rate than we're growing our cases. So we're penetrating better within the customers. They're just not buying as much of the product as they were a year ago. So that gives us some confidence too should the industry get a little bit more vibrant. And then as far as underlying, I would call our EBITDA, we were very close to double digit, but not quite without Jose Santiago and without Cheyney.

And by the way, as was mentioned by Patrick, those two are performing well. And I would say that Cheyney is really performing exceptional.

Great. And then just a quick follow-up. I wanted to ask you about inventory holding gains. Just curious if you could provide any color on the second quarter and year over year change there. Was that a material benefit at all?

And then in terms of the guidance, you said that I think this is what you said that there's not you're not anticipating material holding gains in the back half, but then I think after you said you invested in candy and tobacco inventory ahead of price increases. So is that opportunity, I guess, versus guidance if those price increases happen?

Yes. Thanks, Ed. This is Patrick. I'll address those questions. So in the second quarter, we did see some benefit of inventory holding gains as we mentioned.

But I do want to stress all of these gains are manageable. There's nothing outsized about them. We did invest in inventory, but for the back half of the year, we do not expect between Q3 and Q4 to really experience any substantial holding gains. And for the full year, the total holding gains we expect to be very minimal. So there's a little quarter to quarter differences, but other than that it's really manageable and relatively immaterial.

Thank you. We'll take our next question from John Heinbockel with Guggenheim. Please go ahead.

A couple of things on the independent case growth, right?

So the penetration in lines, is that more center store, not center of the plate, right? Non fresh or are you sort of eating into specialty competitor market share? I'm curious because that seemed like a big opportunity. And then when you think about, let's say, if you pick up if you can pick up another 200 basis points or 300 basis points in case growth, do you think that's more you break it down, is it more new accounts, lines or actually cases per line?

Where do you think that comes from? Where are you most optimistic?

Well, we're still fairly reliant on new customers. We're running about 5% more as far as new customers go. Lines, we're doing a couple of points better than we're doing in case growth. So I would say that part of the upside for us would be if they start buying more cases of what they're already using and that of course is going to mean that the market has to get a

I think we'll continue to do well from a line standpoint and will continue to do well with new accounts. I'm also going to have Scott make a couple of comments there.

No, I agree, George. I think I look at the new accounts is right now being primarily the driver of our growth. I think we've done really, really well with same store penetration and as we see the macro pick up, we feel like that's positioned us extremely well.

And then maybe for you Scott, right, since you know the convenience store business so well, I'm curious, you look out over the next, I know the contracts, right, are lengthy. But you look out over the next, I don't know, three to five years, maybe talk to the opportunity to win a lot of these RFPs because it would just seem like your product lineup lines up really well with what most C stores want. So I would think there's an opportunity to meaningfully move the dial on top line as those RFPs come up.

No, I think you make some great points, John. And we've worked really hard to combine our strength in foodservice and convenience to create an offer that's really compelling to our national chain customers, but also to the independents as well. So to your point on top line drivers, most of our contracts are three years, some of them are five years. We feel like we have a really strong pipeline. We worked really hard jointly across our segments to create a compelling offer and we feel like we're going to win our fair share as those come available.

John, I just want to mention that we're doing well within Core Mark in the foodservice business, but we're actually growing even faster in performance foodservice where that operator is using a broader assortment of items than we can handle particularly in the freezer and cooler out of Core Mark. So those products are being delivered on Performance Foodservice trucks and show up in our Performance Foodservice sales.

Thank you. We'll take our next question from Mark Carden with UBS. Please go ahead.

Great. Good morning. Thanks so much for taking the questions. So to start, how are you thinking about the inflation outlook at this point over the next few quarters in foodservice? We've seen egg prices really tick off recently, for example.

And then how do you think about the potential impact if tariffs ultimately go into effect on Mexico or Canada?

Yes, Mark, this is Patrick. On inflation, we're really thinking what we saw in Q2 is what we're expecting to experience by segment going forward and for the latter half of the year. So again, just very similar for foodservice to be in those low to mid single digits. This are in the low single digits and convenience more in those mid single digits. And that's really what we're projecting for the back half of the year.

And that's for us that's a really good place to be. We can manage this inflation and we think it's good for the industry. Now on the question of tariffs, there's a lot of discussion obviously going on around this. We certainly can't predict what's going to happen, which countries, which products, those type of things. But I think if you take a step back and think about this just holistically, we kind of view tariffs similar to inflation.

It's going to potentially increase the cost of goods, but we're largely a pass through organization. And so it's a little bit of a simplistic view, but right now that's how we're viewing it because we don't have any details on it. So just like inflation, we'll manage it and that's pretty much how we're going to handle it.

you guys talked about an acceleration in independent case volume in January. Understand it's a small month, but are you able to quantify at least for January the impact in the winter storms? And then just how did Cheyney hold up given its Southeastern footprint?

January is not a very important month in the year, certainly the least important as far as how it impacts sales results. So I think for us it's going to be more about February and March as far as the third quarter goes. Now, Cheyney obviously impacted by the hurricanes recovered very quickly and still some impact on the West Coast, primarily of Florida where we have many restaurants that are still closed down. But all in all, I mean their sales growth has been great and they just seem to work their way through this. They're very experienced dealing with hurricanes and they did a great job.

Thank you. We will take our next question from Alex Slagle with Jefferies. Please go ahead.

All right. Thanks. Good morning. Had a follow-up sort of along the lines of what Mark was getting to, and maybe the potential implications for the industry and PFG specifically related to maybe the potential immigration enforcement actions under the new administration. I mean, again, a lot of unknowns there, but just curious your initial views there.

Yes. Hey, Alex, it's Patrick again. I think, yes, just it's obviously very important, all of our employees are documented and we can't really speak to what's going to go on with the immigration as well. But we don't see an impact to our company, but there are obviously particular impacts that we just can't predict at this moment. So that's where we are.

And maybe just one tag on to that. We're in a position right now where we've got kind of record low overtime and temp expense. Our workforce is in great shape. Safety performance is really strong and feel like we've kind of created a work culture where people want to be. So we feel really good about being able to navigate in a tough environment.

Thanks for that. Also wanted to ask on your views on new restaurant formation and I guess the focus on new customer acquisitions. Are you seeing any signs of slowing or anything changes in certain regions as we move further past the closures from years ago and facing higher build costs and obviously still a tough traffic environment for the industry?

Yes. There continues to be new restaurants obviously coming around. I think the effect of COVID is pretty much gone. I think that most of those restaurants have gone from dark to maybe not vibrant, but open. And there's been considerable amount of closings of particularly casual dining chain restaurants.

So I think those buildings are single purpose as well and will eventually be occupied by restaurants. So I see continued increase in particularly the independent restaurants and then there's some chains that are growing fast right now and are putting up units at a brisk pace and we're selling some of those.

Thank you. We'll take our next question from Jacob Bacon Phillips with Melius Research. Please go ahead.

Hi. Thanks for the question and congrats, Scott. So I wanted to ask a little bit more about Cheyney. Last quarter, you raised guidance like $100,000,000 which seems a little low when you prorate like the $160,000,000 trailing twelve month numbers. And I understand there was some volatility with the hurricanes.

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