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Alliance Paper and Food Service has changed its name to Alliance Paper & Foodservice Equipment. The 60-year-old dealership says it made the change in July…

Sales trends of foodservice equipment and supplies typically lag operator fortunes. This is certainly true in the second quarter of 2014, as growth slowed for…

Burger King Worldwide announced on Aug. 26 that it would purchase Tim Hortons, the Canadian doughnut and coffee chain, for about $11.4 billion. The deal,…

A new regional show will launch next year when the North Carolina Restaurant & Lodging Expo kicks off Sept. 21-22, 2015, at the Raleigh Convention…

Alto-Shaam hosted its Sixth Annual Jerry Maahs Memorial Golf Outing on Aug. 9, raising more than $100,000 for the

The Middleby Corp. announced on Sept. 8 that it had acquired Concordia Coffee Co., a maker of automated and self-service coffee and espresso machines for…

Singer Equipment Co. has opened a new branch in Bellmawr, N.J. The new 78,000-sq.-ft. facility includes a store, state-of-the-art test kitchen and training facility, sales…

Robust chain and international growth helped juice combined revenues of eight large publicly reporting foodservice equipment and supplies companies 6.6% in the second quarter of…

Things were looking a little dicey early in the year as brutal winter weather battered many foodservice operators in North America. Now that we finally…

Apparently, a lot of dealers are misjudging their company’s competitive edge and not focusing on how their edge likely matches that of their competitors. In…