In This Section:
Tour With FER Fortnightly At NRA Show's KI Pavilion
NRA To Debut New ServSafe Edition At Show
Dei Dolori Promoted To Group President At Middleby
FCSI Names Legge New Executive Director
MAFSI, FEDA Offer Upcoming Seminars
ITW Names McDonough President, Food Equipment Group-North
America
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Tour With
FER Fortnightly At NRA Show's KI Pavilion
Just a final reminder here: If you're going to the National Restaurant Association Show May 20-23 at Chicago's McCormick Place, you're invited to check out 17 of the hottest new products with FER and FER Fortnightly
Chief Editor Brian Ward at the Kitchen Innovation Pavilion.
Festivities begin at 10 a.m. Sun., May 21
at the pavilion. That's when our own jefe will host a brief discussion with three of the KI program judges—Martin Cowley, Disneyland; Robert Forrester, Quizno's; and Bob Pacifico, Romano/Gatland—before leading a tour of the products on display there.
What better way to optimize your time on the show floor as well as have a good time, too? See you there.
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NRA To Debut New ServSafe Edition At Show
Seen the new ServSafe
course book? If not, get down to the National Restaurant Association Show in Chicago this month.
The National Restaurant Association Education Foundation will be there introducing its new materials for the ServSafe food safety program. ServSafe's Fourth Edition course book, which debuted in April, includes 2005 FDA Model Food Code updates and a host of new tools and expanded content. Other new materials you can review at NRAEF's booth (#6300) include the ServSafe Essentials book, toolkit and CD-ROMs for instructors and a ServSafe employee guide.
Food safety experts will be onhand to answer any questions you may have about the materials or safe food handling practices. NRAEF also will offer a trivia game in the booth that will test your food safety knowledge and give you a chance to win prizes.
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Dei Dolori Promoted To Group President At Middleby
Philip M. Dei Dolori has been promoted to group president for its Blodgett, Pitco, Magikitch'n and Southbend operating divisions, Middleby Corp. has announced.
In his new position, the 22-year industry veteran will concentrate on expanding cross-selling opportunities between all Middleby divisions. He will also focus on new product development, leveraging the resources and technologies from all four divisions to develop and deliver customer energy and labor saving commercial cooking equipment.
Current management at the divisions
will stay in place with the division
presidents reporting directly to Dei Dolori,
and Dei Dolori reporting directly to CEO
Selim Bassoul.
Dei Dolori joined Middleby in 2002 as president of the Pitco/Magikitch'n division, based Bow, N.H. In '03 he added to his responsibilities when he was promoted to oversee the Blodgett operations in Burlington, Vt.
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FCSI Names Legge New Executive Director
Scott D. Legge, consultant member of Foodservice Consultants Society Int'l. for 18 years, past association president and partner in LTD Consulting Group, will assume the mantle of FCSI Worldwide Executive Director, association Pres. Kenneth Winch announced early this month.
Legge has departed from his consulting practice at LTD, based in Guelph, Ontario, and resigned his professional membership to undertake this senior staff position. Legge will work with staff in Louisville, Ky., to manage the society's affairs.
As the new executive director, Legge will work further implement a branding initiative that will deliver greater industry awareness for the Society, continue to add value to membership for both consultant and allied members and in general spearhead the association's worldwide development.
Legge assumes the role vacated by David L. Drain in February.
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MAFSI, FEDA Offer Upcoming Seminars
Interested in the new AQnet e-commerce network? How about honing your sales skills? The Marketing Agents Association for the Foodservice Industry and the Foodservice Equipment Dealers Association have upcoming seminars addressing both.
MAFSI is sponsoring seminars in both basic and advanced AutoQuotes, the system and content provider for AQnet. Both are scheduled on May 19 at McCormick Place, Chicago, in conjunction with the National Restaurant Association Show. The course on AutoQuotes basics, including online capabilities, catalog search techniques and how to print, fax or e-mail quotes using AQnet, runs from 8 a.m. to noon. The advanced class, which runs 1-5 p.m., covers how to manage projects on AQnet. For more info, call MAFSI at 770/433-9844.
FEDA is sponsoring two sales seminar series presented by distribution sales guru Dave Kahle. The Kahle Way "sales academy," a crash course including 28 sales techniques, will be offered in Chicago June 8 and 9. Dave Unplugged for Sales Managers, a two-day seminar, will be held in three locations this year—Los Angeles, Detroit and Dallas. For locations, dates and times, go to www.davekahle.com or call 800/331-1287. You also can call FEDA at 800/677-9605.
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ITW
Names
McDonough
President,
Food
Equipment
Group-North
America
Time to
paint up
the sign
for the
new
parking
space:
John
McDonough
has just
been
promoted
to the
newly-created
position
of
president
of ITW
Food
Equipment
Group-North
America.
The
announcement
was
released
yesterday
by
ITW
Chairman
and CEO
David B.
Speer.
McDonough,
who’s
being
promoted
from his
position
as
president
of
Hobart
Foodservice,
in his
new role
will
have
full
responsibility
for the
breadth
of FEG-North
America
operations.
In
addition
to
retaining
direct
responsibility
for
Hobart
Foodservice
operations
including
Hobart
Warewash/Waste
Division
and
Traulsen,
McDonough
will now
be
responsible
for
•
Hobart
Retail -
North
America
•
Hobart
Service
- North
America
•
Vulcan-Hart
•
Mixing,
Hobart
and
Berkel
brands
•
Slicing,
Hobart
and
Berkel
brands
•
TW
Foodservice
Businesses
Gaylord,
Kairak,
Somat,
Stero
and
Wittco
McDonough
joined
Hobart
in 1991
as a
market
segment
director
for the
Hobart
foodservice
business,.
Since
then,
he’s
served
as a
product
line
director
for
warewashing/waste
equipment
division,
and
later as
vice
president
of sales
and
marketing.
In
October
2000 he
was named
president
of
Hobart's
North
American
Foodservice
division.
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