MVP Group, the Miami-based manufacturer and distributor of prep, cooking and refrigeration equipment, has added four executives.R. Wyatt Dendy, CFSP, has joined the company as V.P.-Business Development. The 30-year industry veteran comes to MVP from Moffat/Ali Group, where he served as national sales manager. He is based in MVP’s Texas office.Art Dunham, CFSP, has joined…

JH Carr, the Kent, Wash., furniture manufacturer and upholsterer serving the foodservice and hospitality industries, has named Shane Patrick as its new General Manager. Patrick joins Carr, a division of Foldcraft Co., from BiNW, a Seattle-based Herman Miller dealer, where he spent 26 years, most recently as supervisor-operations. Foldcraft, headquartered in Burnsville, Minn., is an…

Stoelting Foodservice, the Kiel, Wis., division of The Vollrath Co. and maker of frozen-dessert equipment, has selected The Viola Group as its new manufacturers’ representative for sales of its frozen-dessert equipment in New England. The Madison, Conn., firm, led by David Viola, will cover Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont.

For many of us, it’s back-to-school time. Jan and I took our 19-year-old son, Sam, back to Ohio University, in Athens, Ohio, last week. He’s in the Scripps College of Communication there; he wants to write screenplays, not be a journalist, but who knows? He worked for Gill Ashton Foodservice Media Group this summer, updating…

Accurex’s new Energy Recovery Filter System captures the waste heat produced by cooking appliances that would otherwise be exhausted from a kitchen hood and uses it to preheat a portion of the incoming water supply that is directed into the patented energy recovery filters. The water flowing through the filters captures the waste heat from…

Overnight cooking in an Alto-Shaam Cook & Hold oven can save labor costs. Because the oven automatically switches to holding, chefs like David Sorensen from Sendik’s Food Market in southeast Wisconsin can start work in the morning with a fresh load of ham, roast beef or pork shoulder waiting for service. Sorensen oversees the deli…

Unlike conventional High Efficiency Pre-Rinse Spray Valves (PRSV) that sacrifice cleaning performance for water conservation, the PowerPulse PRSV from Encore Premium Plumbing Products with a 1.05-gal./min. flow rate cleans faster and uses less water than other spray valves. The PowerPulse PRSV is a patent-pending design that uses pulsating jets of water to power off dried…

The new Convotherm 4 oven ACS+ (advanced closed system) ensures peak cooking performance across all its 56 models. It guarantees perfect steam saturation, automatic humidity adjustment in combi-steam cooking and fast, even heat transfer for convection. This delivers an ideal, constant environment in the cooking chamber for all products, from vegetables through meat and fish…

Many facilities that utilize commercial equipment typically produce drain water in excess of 140˚F, which can cause problems with PVC pipes and other safety and environmental issues. The water must be cooled, or “tempered,” before entering drain lines. The patent-pending Cool Trough water tempering system is designed to activate the temperature sensor at 130˚F, cooling…

Recently U.L. listed and certified, FWE’s new generation of Low Temperature Cook and Hold Smoker Ovens features operator-friendly controls that allow you to simply “set the display, load the tray, and walk away!” Smoke – Cook – Hold … just pick the oven setting you need. The addition of the built-in Smoker Drawer in these…