The Greater Chicago Food Depository (GCFD) is a non-profit organization that receives donations of food and distributes the food products to charitable organizations in the greater Chicago area. Epstein architects, engineers and material handling engineers worked with the GCFD to prepare a conceptual design of a new 200,000 square foot dry and perishable distribution facility. Because the food products are donated from numerous sources, and there is no way to predict the type and volume, Epstein designed a material handling system that is extremely flexible.