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FEDA’s October Webinar Is Two Weeks Away
Two weeks from today, the Foodservice Equipment Distributors Association will host its fall teleconference/webinar, “Negotiations: Defending Your Price.” The program for FEDA’s dealer members will help salespeople protect their pricing while winning and protecting new and existing account relationships. The Oct. 24 teleconference/webinar (10 a.m. CST) is led by William Walker, founder and president of…
In Memoriam: Alan Berger
Alan Berger, designer of restaurant kitchens and fabricator of stainless steel, as well as a founder and top executive at Fabricators Int’l., Food Service Concepts and Alliance Food Equipment, died Sept. 28. He was 83. In 1947, he began his education in the foodservice industry working for Dallas Sheet Metal Works; he later would acquire…
FER Honors Industry Service Award Winners
Foodservice Equipment Reports has named five individuals to receive the magazine’s prestigious Industry Service Awards. The awards, first given in 2005, honor those who have made substantial contributions not just to their firms and associations, but to the equipment and supplies industry as a whole. The awards are given to a dealer, a manufacturers’ representative,…
Inviting FER’s Top Dealers To The Awards Dinner
With the announcement in this issue of our Industry Service Award winners, we have named all of those who will be honored at FER’s Awards Dinner & Program at the Peabody Hotel, Feb. 8, 2013, in Orlando, Fla. The dinner will be held during The NAFEM Show. We want to extend a special invitation to…
Pecinka Posts Emre To Oversee Dealer, End User Networks
Pecinka Ferri Associates has added Emre Evren to its sales team as an outside sales rep handling the dealer and end-user network. Evren has been a supply-chain manager, manufacturer’s representative, associate consultant and most recently project manager for two of the firm’s major contract dealers, BRC Commercial Kitchens and M Tucker Co., division of Singer…
In Memoriam: Daniel Friel
Daniel Friel, an inventor and the founder of EdgeCraft Corp., died Sept. 21. He was 92. Friel, an engineer, entered the foodservice equipment industry at age 65 after a 39-year career at DuPont, where he retired as the worldwide director of instruments and biomedical products. Frustration with a dull carving knife on Thanksgiving led Friel…
…But Business Leaders’ Confidence Hit Three-Year Low
Consumers may be more upbeat, but according to the Business Roundtable’s third-quarter survey, chief executive officers’ confidence plummeted to its lowest level in three years, putting it on a par with that immediately following the U.S. recession. The group’s CEO Economic Outlook Index fell to 66 in the quarter from 89.1 in the second quarter.…
Go Figure: Consumer Sentiment Spurted In September…
The fiscal cliff looms, worries about the fate of the Euro and European sovereign debt continue and everyone is uncertain about political environments everywhere. But American consumers clearly became more upbeat in September, according to both major research groups tracking consumer confidence. The Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment Index rose to 78.3 in the…
Second Quarter Traffic Gains Anemic In Most Markets– Except China And Canada
Restaurant customer traffic increased in the second quarter 2012, if only slightly, in most of the 10 markets The NPD Group surveys. Still, except for China and Canada, most countries saw anemic gains at best. Traffic in the U.S. market rose less than 1%, with all of the gains going to large quick-service concepts. Independents…
Cap Ex Measures Fall As NRA’s RPI Rises
Foodservice operators’ capital purchasing activity and intentions fell strongly in the August survey for the National Restaurant Association’s Restaurant Performance Index, while nearly all other indicators in the index rose. Big increases in current same-store sales and customer traffic pushed the overall index up 0.4 point to 100.6. It was the 10th consecutive month the…
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