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BACK STORY: Right Menu, Wrong Equipment
Before any big equipment purchase, you should talk to the dealer to make sure you’re getting the right piece of equipment for the job. One concessionaire is still learning this lesson the hard way after deciding to use three deep-fat fryers to boil saltwater instead of oil. Duffy’s Equipment Service, Sauquoit, N.Y., was repeatedly called…
PRODUCTS: March 2014
APP OF THE MONTH Beer drinkers know there’s nothing more refreshing than a good brew served at the perfect temperature. But different brews actually taste best at different temperatures. “For some beer drinkers, real refreshment begins at a frigid 32°F-38°F. And, while draft macrobrews serve well at that temperature range, many of the popular draft…
PRODUCTS: July 2014
APP OF THE MONTHBefore Metro engineers sat down to refresh their classic cart design, they had some serious conversations with users—not the folks who specify carts, but the people who actually use the carts. What users had to say had a huge effect on Metro’s design, resulting in the new MyCart. Users said that when…
FER FOCUS: Panning For Gold In Nugget Ice
Ice can make or break your drinks—and your sales, too. What’s the draw of nugget ice?
Most Major Markets Saw Flat Or Falling Third Quarter 2013 Traffic, Reports NPD
“Glorious” fall weather helped drive a 2% gain in restaurant traffic in the third quarter in the United Kingdom, versus the year-earlier third quarter, but traffic was flat or negative in nearly all the other markets tracked by The NPD Group’s global foodservice practice during the quarter ended September. Traffic was negative in Italy, Spain…
Toast Made Fast And Smart
It’s spot-on technology, not to mention speed and versatility, that creates the best toast in town. Hatco’s new Intelligent Toast-Qwik holds up to 18 product settings for everything from bagels to Texas toast to hash browns. The ITQ features individually controlled top and bottom heating elements, and a multispeed two-directional conveyor belt with Hatco’s patented…
Middleby Opens Office In Dubai
Middleby Middle East opened in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, last month. The grand opening coincided with the Feb. 23-27 Gulfood Show at Za’abeel Hall in Dubai. The new location serves the Middle East with technical support, design services and a test kitchen for customers while covering all three Middleby platforms: commercial foodservice, food processing and…
Americold Appoints Fred Boehler As President
Americold, the Atlanta-based maker of temperature-controlled warehousing and logistics, has named COO Fred Boehler as its new president. Boehler will hold both titles as he assumes the senior executive leadership role at Americold. Jeffrey Gault, president/CEO, is retiring; he’ll continue to serve on the company’s board of trustees and work with Boehler to ensure a…
Blanco’s AirServe Trolley Offers Broad Flexibility
The new Blanco AirServe Trolley makes food delivery a reliable, multidimensional process whether an operator is making 50 or 5,000 meals a day. The compact hot-air regeneration cart gives operators varied flexibility when loading hot and cold meal portions. The interior thermal partition wall is set asymmetrically and can be positioned at different depths in…
Golden Gate Inks $2.1 Billion Deal To Buy Red Lobster
Darden Restaurants announced Friday that it had agreed to sell its 700-unit Red Lobster chain and related real estate assets to private equity firm Golden Gate Capital for $2.1 billion in cash. Darden said the sale—which defies activist investors who opposed plans to shed the struggling seafood chain— was not subject to shareholder approval and…
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