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With a month left in the calendar year, FEDA is reminding dealer personnel to think long-term about improving their professional credentials by working on CFSP and ServSafe certifications. Those who earned these certifications in 2015 are eligible to apply for FEDA’s Education Foundation scholarships, which can help reimburse certification fees. The association’s CFSP and ServSafe…

CookTek has hired CR Peterson + Associates as its sales representative for the New England market, encompassing Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont. CookTek, Carrollton, Texas, a division of Middleby Corp., manufactures induction cooking, warming and delivery equipment. CR Peterson is headquartered in Avon, Mass.

We hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving. We have much to be thankful for. One of those is the continuing strength of the foodservice and equipment and supplies markets. The positive numbers just keep coming. As we report in this issue of FER Dealer Report, the current capital spending indicator in the National Restaurant Association’s…

Thermodyne Foodservice Products’ dealers, reps and customers now can access drawings, diagrams and spec sheets of the company’s slow cooking, holding, and food-warming equipment product lines in Kochman Consultants Ltd.’s AutoCAD-based library. KCL’s AutoCAD library consists of more than 120,000 CAD drawings from 218 individual foodservice equipment manufacturers. With this announcement, Fort Wayne, Ind.-based Thermodyne…