Kids are heading back to school and the Let’s Move! healthy-eating initiative continues to place salad bars and steamers in the nation’s school cafeterias. Vulcan has tapped school nutrition specialist Mike Burke, CFSP, as K-12 ambassador for its newly launched “Just 4 Schools” program addressing the changing foodservice preparation needs of the K-12 segment; Burke…

The FEDA Education Foundation has awarded 2013 ServSafe Scholarships to John Crow and Nora Ramirez of Ace Mart Restaurant Supply and Tiffanny Forgette, Lindsay Hooton and Cody Riebe of Burkett Restaurant Equipment. More scholarships are available to employees of

I’ve been having conversations about changes in the structure of the equipment and supplies market with a number of leading manufacturers the past few weeks. A clear trend is the impact of consolidation. Now that the Great Recession is mostly over and credit is flowing more or less freely, we’ve seen a wave of mergers…

TriMark Century Concepts has moved to a brand-new location on Jimmy Carter Blvd. in Peachtree Corners, Ga. The new facility features a 60,000-sq.-ft. warehouse and consolidates the company’s Atlanta and Suwanee operations. “The move has more than doubled the capacity of our warehouse operations,” says Scott Bishop, president of the full-service dealer. “We can offer…

We released our forecasts for growth of the foodservice equipment and supplies market last week during FER’s annual President’s Preview E&S Market Forecast meeting, held at the Westin O’Hare in Rosemont, Ill. As we wrote a couple weeks ago (see story here), the rest of this year looks stronger than the very weak E&S market…

Summertime and the living is easy? Or is it just hectic? The Foodservice Equipment Distributors Association understands both situations and has extended until Aug. 23 the deadline to return the questionnaire for its Annual Profit Survey. FEDA says the additional time will allow more of its members to get in their paperwork and take advantage…

We’re finishing up the eight PowerPoints we present next week at our annual President’s Preview E&S Market Forecast meeting, being held Aug. 7 at the Westin O’Hare in Rosemont, Ill. We thought we’d share a few of the highlights. As far as the general economy in the U.S. is concerned, it’s looking a bit better,…

During its recent spring conference, Allied Buying Corp. recognized more than a dozen member/dealers and suppliers for their outstanding volume growth and supplier support. Seven ABC suppliers were honored: Outstanding Sales Achievement-Volume Growth: Nor-Lake, SaniServ, The Vollrath Co. Supplier Awards of Merit-Sales Effort: Continental Refrigeration, Intermetro, San Jamar, Spring USA. Nine member/dealers were recognized: Outstanding…

Rich Gleitsmann, the president of Ali Group North America, effective September 1. He will transition from his role at Scotsman, a division of the Ali Group. In his new role as EVP, Gleitsmann will be responsible for driving improvement programs throughout Ali Group companies within North America in close, personal collaboration with CEO Filippo Berti,…

The deadline for Foodservice Equipment Distributors Association members to return the questionnaire for the group’s Annual Profit Survey is Thursday, August 1. The survey delivers a wealth of financial and operating guidelines and provides direct comparisons between participating dealer firms. However, this valuable information is only available to firms that participate in the study. The…