Cres Cor has promoted three key managers. Greg Baggott has been elevated to the position of V.P.-Operations, and now oversees the engineering, manufacturing, purchasing and quality control departments. Baggott, who most recently served as central regional sales manager, has been with the Mentor, Ohio, company for 10 years. Michael Capretta has been promoted to V.P.-Sales…
Diversified Foodservice Supply has acquired Lundco Supply, a Houston-based replacement parts and supplies distributor, adding scale to the organization and boosting its distribution footprint in Texas, Louisiana and Oklahoma. DFSI will complete the transaction, announced September 30, through its AllPoints Foodservice Parts & Supplies brand and merge Lundco with AllPoints into a new, 25,000 sq.ft.…
Tabletop and food prep maker EveryWare Global has appointed Michael J. Sullivan to serve as Senior Vice President of Product Supply and Technical Innovation. Prior to joining EveryWare Global, Sullivan held a number of progressively responsible supply chain positions with Berkshire-Hathaway and Procter & Gamble. Most recently, he was Director of Global Supply Chain Operations…
PRIDE Marketing has moved its Denver office to a new location. As of September 19, the group is located at 6377 S. Revere Parkway, Suite 100, Centennial, CO 80111. Phone numbers and email contact info remain the same. The PRIDE accounting team is NOT relocating and will still be located in Metairie, LA. Contact PRIDE’s…
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Manitowoc Foodservice has announced a number of leadership shifts in its overseas business executive team. Gary Dykstra, V.P. Sales-Buying Groups, will retire from his post at the end of the year, and continue with Manitowoc as a consultant to the business. Chris Karssiens, newly appointed Senior V.P. Sales-USA Buying Groups, will replace Dykstra in the…
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The number of restaurants in the U.S. fell again in the year ended March 31, 2016, according to the latest data from The NPD Group’s ReCount restaurant census. Total net units stood at 624,301, down 1% from the 632,572 total a year earlier. All the losses were among independent restaurants whose counts dropped by more…
One factor that many analysts believe is contributing to falling restaurant traffic and same-store sales is the divergent trends in grocery store and restaurant menu prices. In August, that gap reached its widest spread in nearly seven years, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the National Restaurant Association. And with wholesale food prices…