Dormont is showing off its more than 60 years of gas connectivity experience with a redesigned and upgraded

THERMO-KOOL/MID-SOUTH INDUSTRIES has promoted David Whitehead to engineering manager. Whitehead joined the Laurel, Miss., walk-in maker in 2003 as a manufacturing engineer and has held posts as maintenance supervisor and in the IT department.

Manitowoc Foodservice has modernized its culinary center in Cleveland, Ohio, to accommodate more high-tech customer meetings, culinary demonstrations and hands-on training. The re-do included a complete floor-to-ceiling remodeling of the demonstration kitchen, which showcases an A-Z list of Manitowoc brands, including Frymaster fryers; Garland, Lincoln and Merrychef ovens; Varimixer mixers; and Cleveland steamers, combi, kettles…

MANITOWOC FOODSERVICE has promoted Kathy Veder to v.p.-global accounts for Arby’s, Chick-fil-A and Wendy’s. Veder, formerly v.p.-marketing with Frymaster, will focus on marketing initiatives for these customers. Mary Chiarot has been appointed v.p./g.m. at Garland Canada, the distributor of Manitowoc Foodservice products in Canada. Chiarot had been v.p.- marketing with the Garland Group. The manufacturer…

Just when one might fear the foodservice market is heading toward a double-dip downturn, those always hungry American consumers decide to eat out more often. The Restaurant Performance Index maintained by the

Something to chew on: While nearly all the recent losses in net restaurant counts in the United States have been among independent operators, growth last year in Canadian restaurant counts actually came from independents. According to data from The NPD Group’s annual ReCount census, Canada’s independent operators, which account for 63.8% of the country’s 72,721…

Nonfarm payrolls in the United States grew by 80,000 as the unemployment rate fell slightly to 9% in October, according to data released Friday, Oct. 4, by the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics. The numbers were somewhat weaker than most analysts expected. But the government also revised upwards by 102,000 the number of jobs created…

Academic, private-sector and government forces have jointly created the world’s first global food-safety training facility. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the University of Maryland’s Joint Institute for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition and Waters Corp. have opened the Int’l. Food Safety Training Laboratory in College Park, Md. The IFSTL will focus on hands-on lab…

One of the critical realities of the foodservice business is that richer households buy a significant percentage of restaurant meals. And one of the unfortunate effects of the Great Recession is that there are significantly fewer affluent households today than there were in 2007—some 2 million fewer, according to the National Restaurant Association’s Chief Economist…

ALTO-SHAAM has repositioned its regional sales managers as sector vice presidents, along with its culinary and inside sales support teams. Jack Scott, senior v.p.-sales and marketing, heads up the sales team; Michael Aguirre and Todd Griffith both have received sales and marketing v.p. titles; and Warren Casey, Steve Gill and William Groleau now hold sales…