What's the collective name for flour, sugar and so on?

[Mister_Rik]

@xnylder

In my experience, in the food service trade, “dry goods” refers to anything a food provider (restaurant, caterer, or so on) can receive that doesn’t need to be refrigerated. As Agnostic Pagan points out, it’s the stuff you could keep in a pantry. Rice, flour, oil, ketchup, takeout containers… anything like that could be part of a dry goods order. Part of my job as a cook was to check those orders. In our restaurant’s case, the other thing everything on the list had in common was that it came from one general supplier.

And it’s all kept in a room or other designated area called “dry storage”.