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NRA Lines Up Agenda For 2014 Public Affairs Conference
The National Restaurant Association wants operators to go to Washington next month and “Tell Congress That America Works Here.” That’s the theme for the NRA’s 2014 Public Affairs Conference, April 29-30, in Washington, D.C. The association is focused on what it calls an unprecedented number of legislative challenges, from healthcare and taxes to minimum wage…
Minimum Wage Pressures Build, Hourly Wage Jumps To $15 In Seattle
If the federal minimum wage increases to $10.10 an hour from the current $7.25, will fewer entry-level jobs be created and will restaurant unit growth stall? That’s the prediction CKE Restaurants CEO Andy Puzder recently made to CNBC. Puzder said that minimum wage hikes will lead to store closings and slower growth for his company’s…
National Food Safety Month Kicks Off 20th Anniversary
National Food Safety Month begins this week, marking 20 years of promoting best practices for food safety. The 20th anniversary is being celebrated in September by featuring 20 top food-safety tips from the past two decades. NFSM was created in 1994 by the National Restaurant Association to heighten awareness about the importance of food-safety education.…
Motor Freight Reclassification To Affect Shipping Costs On Coolers, Refrigeration, Freezers
Shipping the equipment that keeps food cold or frozen just got a lot more expensive. Citing freight liability concerns, the Commodity Classification Standards Board (CCSB), an autonomous board under the National Motor Freight Traffic Association, has made a major change to the National Motor Freight Classifications covering everything from high chairs to commercial refrigeration. Beginning…
On the Move:
Johannes (Jan) Vergouwen has joined Premium Supply Co., Deer Park, N.Y., as COO. Vergouwen brings more than 25 years of executive, management, operational and corporate finance experience to the company. He joins Premium from N. Wasserstrom & Sons, where he handled facility expansion and infrastructure and staffing improvements while considerably growing revenue. Paramount Restaurant Supply,…
Industry Members Earn Honors:
Two members of Supply & Equipment Foodservice Alliance have earned top status in the buying group’s SEFAPro Program. Jeff Dellon, director of sales and marketing at H. Weiss in Armonk, N.Y., and Cheryl Fichera, equipment specialist at Jordano’s in Santa Barbara, Calif., have earned SEFAPro Level 7 status, the highest achievable level in the training…
Insights From Top Dealers
I’ve been back from Asia for more than a week now, just in time to help Christine Palmer clean up the last of our annual Top Dealer survey. For those laggards who have yet to respond, I’m coming after you this week! But with most of the surveys already in, I’ll share a little of…
NRA’s Performance Index Rises Again In April
It’s now clear that restaurant operators have bounced back sharply from the declines caused by severe winter weather during the first two months of 2014. The National Restaurant Association Restaurant Performance Index rose again in April, as same-store sales and traffic continued to improve. Both capital expenditure measures rose during the month. The overall index…
Advance Tabco Goes Full Circle, Adds Supreme Metal Assets
In 1929, Sam and Morris Schwartz, two brothers from Ukraine, started manufacturing and distributing beer equipment in lower Manhattan. The pair later formed Supreme Metal Fabricators and Advance Food Service Equipment. Eighty-five years later, the two companies are connected again. On July 23, Georgia-based KinMetal LLC, doing business under the name Advance Tabco, acquired certain…
E&S Market Weathered Storms First Half Of 2014
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 have all of the numbers in on the second quarter, we can safely say most suppliers of equipment and supplies weathered the storms. But the reports from MAFSI and from…
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