The Foodservice Equipment Distributors Association is amping up efforts to boost its members’ professionalism and credentials. The FEDA Education Foundation will present 30 scholarships each for Certified Foodservice Professional and ServSafe certification. Dealers who earn CFSP or ServSafe certification in 2012 are eligible to apply for the scholarships. The CFSP scholarship provides $200 and the…

The demonstration kitchen at Accurex headquarters has added three new customer training programs. The Greenheck Product Center in Schofield, Wis., now hosts overviews on kitchen ventilation systems; energy-saving kitchen ventilation, including variable volume systems; and kitchen ventilation design. The latter includes discussions on proper design strategies and different applications involving hood sizing, grease-filtration selection, utility…

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Fire up your synapses and read all about the latest heavy-duty or restaurant model full-size gas ranges from 13 manufacturers.

Full-size gas ranges are kitchen workhorses. But horses come in all sizes, from Shetlands to Clydesdales. Make sure you get the right horse for the job.

I was in Miami, at the Doral Country Club during a monsoon, at the annual meeting of the Association of Healthcare Foodservice June 21, when I heard Mitch Schechter had died. Our dear friend, and Mitch’s, Donna Boss, was with us in Miami, and filled us in with what she knew. (And helped write the…

At the 11th hour, our excellent unit design article, which was all laid out and printer-ready, fell through. The chain’s PR department ultimately determined information on its new prototype was too new to be publicized. We honored the request to pull the story, despite how late it arrived in the process. And so Janice Cha,…

Culver’s pursuit of LEED certification led to a host of restaurant and operational improvements, both green and otherwise.

“Sure, it’s an economic and political environment fraught with uncertainties,” Foodservice Equipment Reports Publisher Robin Ashton told attendees at the magazine’s annual E&S Market Forecast President’s Preview meeting, held in Rosemont, Ill., on July 24. “But the fundamentals for continuing growth of the equipment and supplies market remain strong, not just next year,” he continued,…