Luckiest Men In The World

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

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Darden Restaurants To Acquire Yard House For $585 Million

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Darden Restaurants announced July 12 that it has agreed to acquire Yard House USA for $585 million in an all-cash transaction from private equity firm TSG Consumer Partners, management and investors. The 39-unit contemporary American chain will become part of Darden’s Specialty Restaurant Group, which includes The Capital Grille, Bahama Breeze, Seasons 52 and Eddie V’s.…

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Brainstorming

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In early June, our staff gathered at my house for what I called the Editorial Planning Powwow. We needed all hands on deck to hash out not only the equipment topics we want to cover in Foodservice Equipment Reports in 2013, but also the new features and departments we want to see when we launch our…

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Succession Planning

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In April I had the pleasure of attending the FCSI The Americas Conference in Kansas City, Mo. In one of the sessions, consultants, allied members, students and the media had an open discussion about “what keeps you up at night?” Succession planning came up pretty early in the conversation. In our industry, we tend to…

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Going, But Not Gone

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Greetings, all, and welcome to my last editorial written as chief editor. Not that I’ll be gone gone. Just semi-gone. I’ll still be stopping in from time to time, working on a variety of projects and writing some stories. But it’s time for me to explore some other functions here in the foodservice universe as well.…

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Correction: Action Sales Is A 2012 FER Top Dealer

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Sometimes we make a big goof. Somehow, with all the forms flying back and forth, we misplaced Action Sales and left them out of our FER Top Dealer Report article in the June 2012 issue. The oversight was particularly galling because Action Sales has been a Top Dealer, verifying its volume, since we initiated the…

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When To Revit?

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For some, it’s now. For others, maybe later.

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LEED’s Uphill Battle In Foodservice

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Some new incentives would get us over the hump.

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Better Ideas, Better Living

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What makes good innovation?

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When Voluntary Becomes Mandatory

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Regulatory self-perpetuation is almost a law of physics.

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