After more than a quarter century in business, San Antonio-based foodservice dealer Mission Restaurant Supply has rebranded.The news marks a strategic and long-awaited advancement for Mission, which since its founding in 1988, has grown from selling and leasing commercial refrigeration and ice machines to becoming a full-service foodservice equipment and supplies dealer. With this growth…
MOREBuffalo is home to Gordon Food Service’s first New York state location. The privately held and family managed Grand Rapids, Mich., company debuted its 40,000 sq.ft. Gordon Restaurant Market location in Buffalo late last month. In addition to foodservice equipment, its shelves are stocked with fresh meats, seafood and produce and a full line of…
MOREI’ve spent some quality time during the past month with other parts of the channel. In early October, I hung out with nearly 30 consultants at the Consultants Rock Tour in Seattle, hosted by Cres Cor, Franke Foodservice, Lakeside Manufacturing, Hatco and Wood Stone. They had me out there to moderate a Q&A session that…
MOREDog Haus, the six-year-old Pasadena, Calif., concept, has signed a development agreement which will see the construction of 300-plus new franchise locations in 12 states during the next seven years. Under the deal with American Development Partners, the new locations will be built as stand-alone Dog Haus Biergarten outlets. Dog Haus currently serves its “gourmet”…
MOREAntunes broke ground in October on an expansion of its manufacturing facility in Carol Stream, Ill. The expansion will add approximately 55,000 sq.ft. to the company’s headquarters there, and additional space will accommodate several advancements to Antunes’ operation, including doubling the size of the engineering lab and sheet metal fabrication area, as well as constructing…
MOREStefano Pavesi has joined Stoelting Foodservice/Vollrath as Business Development Manager. He joins the Kiel, Wis., maker of frozen dessert equipment from Carpigiani North America, where he was v.p.-chain accounts after serving as director of sales and marketing. Pavesi’s 15-year foodservice career, includes sales management positions with Bravo North America and PreGel North America. At Stoelting,…
MOREStarbucks Corp. has named its first chief executive officer for China and said it plans to more than double its store count in that country to 5,000 by 2021. Belinda Wong has assumed the title of CEO-Starbucks China. Wong had been president of that operation. Starbucks also promoted Leo Tsoi, most recently v.p.-store development and…
MOREThe Vollrath Company has engaged Katharine Mizla, FCSI, as its new Consultant Sales Manager. Mizla will drive new and existing foodservice projects for a variety of industries and work closely with the director of equipment sales to create commercial kitchen designs. She’ll report to Dennis Park, v.p.-foodservice sales With more than 30 years of experience,…
MOREYou gotta give it to restaurant operators: They are consistent. For the seventh month in a row, restaurant menu prices, as tracked by the Bureau of Labor Statistics for the monthly Consumer Price Index, rose 0.2% in September. Meanwhile, prices at grocery stores and other retail outlets continued to fall last month, down 0.1%. It…
MOREHealth officials in Sacramento County, Calif., are cracking down on pop-up booth restaurants, telling owners that they can no longer operate inside the cafes, bars and other businesses that have regularly hosted them. The county’s dozen or so pop-ups were contacted earlier last month by the Environmental Management Department, which, among other things, enforces health…
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