Erwin Shakin, a man who loved the foodservice industry and said he had to have at least one meal a day in a restaurant, died on Dec. 24. He was 83 years old.Shakin was the founder of Consolidated Restaurant Services, established in 1952, and Consolidated Commercial Controls in 1983, and now known as AllPoints Foodservice.…
MOREAPP OF THE MONTHRobert Regan, owner of Gumbeaux’s Cajun Café, a family-owned restaurant in Douglasville, Ga., is a big fan of the new high-efficiency P 38 convection fryer from Pearl City Manufacturing, Inc. For the past 19 years, he’s relied on conventional 40-lb., 2-basket fryers to cook seafood, his menu mainstay. But after learning about…
MOREAPP OF THE MONTHSometimes you find a tool that makes your life a little bit easier, and you begin to wonder how you ever worked without it. That’s how Chef John Bendzinski, Capital Banquet Center, Washington, Mich., felt when he discovered the Trash-Ease through his neighbor and the product’s inventor, John Cundy, JPC Products. The…
MOREBUNN TRIFECTATrifecta puts full control over the three phases of brewing—wetting, extraction and hydrolysis (separating liquids from solids)—at your fingertips. Each recipe allows you to manipulate a total of 11 variables (recipe guide and recipe-development tools available). After determining an appropriate grind size and dose weight for coffee (or weight for tea), you can enter…
MOREAPP OF THE MONTH Mike West, director of construction and maintenance at West Quality Foods in Laurel, Miss., dared to try something different, and now he gets thank-you notes from his unit managers. In early 2011, West installed a FOG Tank at a local Kentucky Fried Chicken, one of West Quality Foods’ 71 restaurants, after…
MOREECOLOGIC SOLUTIONS Electro-chemical activation (ECA) devices from EcoLogic Solutions allow users to create their own detergents and sanitizers/disinfectants on-site using only tap water, salt, and electricity—environmentally preferable compounds that are non-toxic to humans and aquatic life, work better than their chemical-based counterparts (ECA sanitizers are up to 70 times more effective than bleach), and cost…
MOREAPP OF THE MONTH During the NRA Show a few years back, Peter Fulgenzi, executive chef, food & nutrition at 200-bed Indiana University Health North Hospital, Carmel, Ind., came across Sealed Air’s Vision Safety Solution. Comprised of cameras in the kitchen (at doors and sinks), RFID-embedded employee badges and sensors and reporting software, the system…
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