Morgan Tucker
M.Tucker | New York
October 2019
Morgan Tucker was born into the hospitality industry, seeing her father and grandfather lead the largest foodservice equipment and supplies distribution business on the east coast. After graduating from Cornell University’s School of Hotel Administration in 2007, Tucker took on management roles at Danny Meyer’s Union Square Hospitality Group and Steve Hanson’s BR Guest Restaurant Group. In 2008, she joined the family business, Singer Equipment Company, as the director of business development for M. Tucker, the foodservice distribution branch of the business.
Headquartered in Paterson, New Jersey, M. Tucker is metro New York’s largest foodservice distributor, and one of the six largest distributors of wholesale restaurant supplies and equipment in the country. Through M.Tucker, Tucker saw an opportunity to engage chef-driven restaurants by founding LMT, a digital shop that curates a selection of equipment and supplies for culinary driven clients. In 2013, Tucker was awarded the industry’s highest sales honor – Foodservice Equipment and Supplies magazine’s “Dealer Sales Representative of the Year.” She is a contributing writer to Total Food Service Magazine through her monthly column “LMT: Hospitality provisions, thoughtfully curated.”
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