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Fisher Wins ACEEE Energy Champion Award
Major kudos to Don Fisher of Fisher-Nickel Inc. and the team at PG&E's Food Service Technology Center, for being one of four recipients of the "Champion of Energy Efficiency" award at the recent biennial conference of the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy. The award recognizes leadership and accomplishment in the energy efficiency field.

Those of you who read our sister print publication, Foodservice Equipment Reports, know that Fisher and his team have for years been tremendous champions of foodservice energy efficiency, which is why their groundbreaking work has been regularly featured in the magazine.

"I'm overwhelmed and very pleased," said Fisher, the only winner affiliated with the foodservice industry. "This award is really shared with Judy [Nickel], our FSTC team and PG&E for their 20-year commitment. Everybody—utilities, organizations, the EPA and Energy Star, industry and media like FER—has been behind us, so the credit goes to everyone who supported us."

Fisher, whose company celebrates its 20th anniversary this year, was nominated by both PG&E and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory for his leadership in changing national markets for energy-efficient foodservice technologies.

"In this field, you don't often have the luxury of seeing the results of what you do put into practice so quickly," Fisher said, "but the foodservice industry has been pretty quick to adapt and take advantage of what we learn here at FSTC."

Other winners at the ACEEE conference include Cheryl Harrington, director, Regulatory Assistance Project, for her lifelong leadership on energy efficiency policies in the utility field; the Bonneville Power Administration for its long-term and renewed commitment to energy efficiency as an electricity resource; and a team of four power-supply efficiency champions—Chris Calwell, Ecos Consulting, Andrew Fanara, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Noah Horowitz, Natural Resources Defense Council, and John Wilson, California Energy Commission—for their research, advocacy, management, and partnership abilities in working to transform a key technology market, electronic-device powers supplies.

NRA, Healthy Dining Build Web Guide To Better Eating
The National Restaurant Association recently joined forces with California-based Healthy Dining Program and created a Web site that promotes restaurants with healthful menu choices.

HealthDiningFinder.com will let consumers search for restaurants based on price, location, type of cuisine, availability of takeout and other criteria. Detailed nutrition information for each participating restaurant's menu items also will be available on the site. Restaurants that have already signed on include Arby's, P.F. Chang's, Buca di Beppo, Cracker Barrel, Round Table Pizza, El Pollo Loco and Famous Dave's.

You can see a demo of the site at www.healthydiningfinder.com/demo.

The site officially launches on Aug. 28.