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PUBLISHER'S VIEWPOINT
November 2002
So What's A MUFES?
A
successful event is fun. Everyone—the operators and suppliers
who came, NAFEM and NRA who supported us, our sponsors—tells us
the first Multiunit Foodservice Equipment Symposium was a great
meeting.
The editors
give you only a hint in this issue of what went on in Utah. But
stay tuned: The plan is to use material from the symposium as a
base for more in-depth editorial throughout 2003.
In the
meantime, I just want to thank everyone who made it possible. It
took a lot of us.
First I want
to thank everyone who came. You made the meeting. Then, I must
thank our sponsors (in the order they signed on); they made it
all possible: Jack Hake and Doug George of Duke; Jack Antell and
Wally Kisling at Manitowoc; Dave McCulloch and Ken Goodwin of
Enodis; Ron Rosati and Lynn Bay of Dover; Karalyn McDermott at
Fetco, Bob Utech and Cheryl Aderhold of Greenheck; Danielle
Burenstein and Mike DeLuca of Philip Morris; and David Hatch,
Mike Whiteley and Phil Tondelli of Hatco. It takes courage to
commit money to something untried. We appreciate it and hope the
sponsors got their money’s worth.
Also I must
thank our entire staff and in two cases their spouses. This took
everyone we could muster.
Here’s a
partial list of others who deserve thanks:
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Dave Brewer
from Yum! Brands, Roy Hook from Wendy’s, Steve Jones at Triarc
and Greg Richards, who three years ago in Las Vegas all
thought having a meeting for top chain E&S people was a great
idea. It spurred us on.
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Jerry
Delventhal and David Shaw, friends and co-chairs of NRA’s
Multi-Unit Architects, Engineers and Construction Officers—and
the entire MAECO membership—who strongly supported the concept
and actually co-located their fall meeting with ours. We must
also thank NRA’s Steve Grover and Christine Andrews.
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John
Nackley, Mike Carpenter, Deirdre Flynn and all those at NAFEM
for underwriting operator attendance and providing endless
encouragement and support.
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All the
folks, too numerous to mention by name, who helped us with the
program. I don’t want to single out a few because everyone was
great.
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Our partner
Ken Gill, who championed the idea and then, as he always does,
encouraged us to take the risk in the toughest business
climate in 30 years.
But most of
all, I want to thank Chris, who handled logistics, and Brian,
who did the program. Rich, Pat and I just sold what they made.
And we had a lot of fun.
Cheers,
Robin Ashton
Publisher
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