Canadian Restaurant and Foodservices Association. Dooher will head a volunteer board of 30 restaurant industry leaders; CRFA has 30,000 members. The $63-billion restaurant industry is the fourth-largest employer in Canada, providing more than 1.1 million jobs. Atlanta-based Del Taco has appointed David Pear, formerly of Domino’s Pizza and Yum! Brands, as senior v.p.- operations. He…
As a special thank-you to equipment and supplies dealers, the National Restaurant Association, in cooperation with the Foodservice Equipment Distributors Association and Foodservice Equipment Reports, is hosting its second annual dealer-only Kitchen Innovations Dealer Cocktail Reception. The event will be held Sunday, May 6, 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. in the Kitchen Innovations Pavilion’s new…
What is it worth to establish your dealership’s credibility before more than 20,000 multiunit operators and design consultants? That’s the point of Foodservice Equipment Reports’ annual Top Dealer Report. The magazine will again publish a listing of leading equipment and supplies dealers and distributors in its June issue. And you don’t even need to pay…
These are busy times at the
A few days ago, a couple senior-level dealer friends in the sportcraft industry were commenting on how tough the market’s been lately. An almost snowless winter in this part of the country has dropped snowmobile sales to almost nothing. That, topping a couple years of economy-related slowdowns in a variety of categories, has made life…
It’s a new lineup of officers at the
The warm winter weather must have led to an early bloom of optimism for restaurant operators. The Restaurant Performance Index maintained by the National Restaurant Association fell back in January after surging in December. Still, in spite of a 0.8 point decline in the overall index, it remains at 101.3, well above the 100 level…
Noting the “direct correlation between disposable income and foodservice spending,” Technomic Inc. Executive V.P. Bob Goldin says the run-up in gasoline prices “could not have come at a worse time for our slowly recovering economy. Speaking somewhat ‘provincially,’ we are especially concerned about the almost certain adverse impact rising gas prices will have on foodservice…