Alto-Shaam is donating $127,500 to the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society following its annual Jerry Maahs Memorial Golf Outing, held in August in Wisconsin. The event, which brings together employees, dealers, and vendors to honor the legacy of Alto-Shaam’s founder, Jerry Maahs, raises money to fund cancer research. Maahs died of aggressive non-Hodgkin Lymphoma 10 years…
FEDA’s next webinar, on Wednesday, November 2, addresses the aftermarket phase of the sales process, and delivering on all the front-end promises made to customers. Paul Reilly, President-Reilly Sales Training, will guide attendees to create maximum value for the customer. The webinar also will cover value-added reinforcement, recreating value for the customer, and leveraging existing…
Southern California-based Chefs’ Toys has opened its seventh store in the state. The new warehouse store in San Diego is its first there, and serves customers in more than a dozen cities in San Diego County. Chefs’ Toys, founded in 1988, is helmed by Steve Dickler and stocks more than 9,000 products and supplies. Its…
The International Foodservice Distributors Association has hired Brian Lynch as V.P.-Industry Relations. Lynch joins IFDA from the National Grocers Association, where he served as v.p.- membership, business and industry development. “We are excited to have Brian join the IFDA team,” says Mark Allen, IFDA president and CEO. “Brian’s stellar background in association leadership comes with…
NAFEM 2017 is only four months away, and hotel rooms and events are already filling up. Among them are FEDA’s “Box Lunch” seminar, a luncheon and sales training program, slated for February 10 at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Fla. The seminar, aimed at dealer sales teams, will feature sales trainer Sam Richter…
Kelly Cain has joined SEFA as the buying group’s new Chief Financial Officer. She joins SEFA from Matrix Systems Holding in Miamisburg, Ohio, where she was CFO. Her 20-year finance career also encompasses strategic planning, human resources, project management, budgeting, and staff development with Fortune 500 and entrepreneurial companies; she also has buying group experience…
Winners of the 2016 Foodservice Pioneering Concept competition will be on display next month in New York in Booth #1900 at HX: The Hotel Experience. First-place winner Foodesign Associates, of Charlotte, N.C., will show off a working model of its ReFresh-Eatery and Market. The concept provides a retail component for take-home meals, along with a…
Reggie Daniel, Director of Design for Camacho Associates, died unexpectedly September 28. He was 68 years old. A Charlotte, N.C., native, Daniel served in the U.S. Air Force before going on to a long career as a foodservice consultant. He was recognized as an industry leader and innovator in the foodservice equipment and design world,…
La Cima Restaurants, the Twin Peaks franchisee founded by former executives of the rival Hooters chain, is acquiring a majority interest in the casual-dining sports bar chain. Dallas-based Twin Peaks owns or franchises 78 restaurants in 25 states. Atlanta-based La Cima owns and operates 15 Twin Peaks locations across six states. Terms of the deal,…
The South African-Portuguese concept will open three more Chicago-area locations in the next two months. The Skokie, Oak Brook and Hyde Park stores will take the chain to 11 locations in area. Nando’s, which operates restaurants in 23 nations from Australia to Zimbabwe, debuted in the United States in 2008 with a store in Washington,…