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Missouri Court Rules Against Restaurant Equipment Tax Breaks
The Missouri Supreme Court ruled last week that restaurants cannot claim a tax exemption for the purchase of kitchen equipment, nor claim a resale exemption for the purchase of tables, chairs, plates and servingware used by their patrons. The ruling pivoted on a determination that restaurants prepare rather than manufacture food for their customers. Consequently,…
New Energy Star Rules Kick In With The New Year
Equipment manufacturers—and everyone else, for that matter—watch your calendar. Enhanced testing and new verification requirements for equipment wearing the Energy Star label go into effect Jan. 1. As many of you probably recall, a year ago, a Government Accounting Office study revealed abuses in the Energy Star program (on the domestic appliance side), and the…
CHAMPION INDUSTRIES/ALI GROUP
Two new faces at CHAMPION INDUSTRIES/ALI GROUP. The Winston-Salem, N.C.-based warewashing-systems manufacturer has appointed Scott Cherevaty as sales and marketing v.p. for Moyer Diebel Ltd., which includes the Champion, Moyer Diebel and Bi-Line brands for the Canadian market; and Joe Deckelman as sales and marketing v.p. for Champion Industries U.S. Cherevaty previously worked with Hobart’s…
ITW Makes Food Equipment Group Organizational Changes
On Aug. 31, ITW announced it was consolidating leadership and making organizational changes to the ITW Food Equipment Group. In an appointment effective immediately, Chris O’Herlihy takes the reins as president-Food Equipment Group Worldwide, which includes responsibility for all Food Equipment Group operations globally. "We are consolidating leadership responsibility for the Food Equipment Group…
McDonalds Plans Big For S. Africa, India
McDonald’s plans to open 100 more restaurants in South Africa and 120 in India over the next five years as the company seeks out further growth in emerging markets, according to recent interviews with two of the company’s top executives. Tim Fenton, president of the chain’s Asia-Pacific, Middle East and Africa regions, told Bloomberg News…
Camille’s Sidewalk Café
Camille’s Sidewalk Café, part of Tulsa, Okla.-based Beautiful Brands Int’l., is paving the way for increased expansion in the Midwest with the recent appointment of a lead development agent for the region, Jason Lowman. Lowman, currently a Camille’s franchisee in Wisconsin, will serve as operations consultant for stores in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio…
SEBASTIANELLI JOINS EDLUND
David J. Sebastianelli is starting work this week in his new post as v.p. of sales and marketing at Edlund Co., the Burlington, Vt., manufacturer of equipment and smallwares. Sebastianelli is an industry veteran with wide-ranging experience in the distribution chain in the U.S., Europe and Asia. Most recently, he was v.p. of sales for…
HUPFER USA PICKS VIGEANT TO HEAD SALES
Kevin Vigeant has been appointed v.p.-sales of Hupfer USA’s foodservice division. In addition to overseeing all activities related to the sales, marketing and operations of foodservice products sold in the United States, Canada and Mexico, Vigeant will focus on strengthening the 140-year-old German-based company’s distribution network and sales organization. After 17 years at Dinex International…
REMAGEN MARKS 50TH ANNIVERSARY
Remagen Foodservice Solutions, a family-owned and operated E&S distributor, celebrated a half-century in business on Oct. 1. The Eaton, Ohio, company was founded in 1961 by Richard H. Tuggle in an 80-sq.-ft. milkhouse at his farm. His son, John, assumed the post of president in 1972. Originally known as St. Clair Supply Co., the firm…
IN MEMORIAM: FRANK D. STELLA
Frank D. Stella, the founder, chairman, and CEO of Detroit-based F.D. Stella Products Co., passed away Oct. 3 at age 91. In addition to his eponymously named E&S dealership, he was also the chairman and CEO of Stella Int’l., a New York consulting, joint-venture and importing firm. A longtime member of the Foodservice Equipment Distributors…
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