Under the 2010 Affordable Care Act, employers are required to notify employees by Oct. 1 how to obtain healthcare coverage in 2014. Employers must begin notifying employees about the existence of state healthcare “exchanges” that will become the marketplace for many individuals and small businesses to buy insurance. The same notice must tell employees they…
MOREThinking ahead? If you already know you and your colleagues will be heading to Chicago next May to attend the 2014 National Restaurant Association Restaurant, Hotel-Motel Show and International Wine, Spirits & Beer Event, you can save 60% on your registration. The NRA has opened up early-bird online-only discount pricing through Nov. 15. Attendees for…
MOREEleven tabletop, servingware and smallwares products have been honored with awards in Foodservice Equipment Reports magazine’s 12th annual Smallwares & Tabletop Awards. Five judges—two operators and three dealer specialists—made the final selections during a judging session held Aug. 13 at the Boelter Cos. Superstore in Glendale, Wis. Nearly 50 tabletop and smallwares manufacturers submitted entries…
MORER.W. Smith & Co. has appointed Stuart Sharp, the former v.p.-division sales at Carlisle Foodservice Products, as chief operating officer, a new position within the company’s leadership team. Sharp will report to Allan Keck, president and CEO of R.W. Smith. The San Diego dealer reported more than $87 million in sales in 2012, according to…
MOREAlto-Shaam welcomed more than 170 golfers to the fifth annual Jerry Maahs Memorial Golf Outing on August 10. The charitable event, held at Ironwood Golf Course in Sussex, Wis., surpassed previous outings as participants raised a total of $56,000 for the Leukemia/Lymphoma Society. Alto-Shaam founder Jerry Maahs passed away from lymphoma in 2006. The following…
MOREKids are heading back to school and the Let’s Move! healthy-eating initiative continues to place salad bars and steamers in the nation’s school cafeterias. Vulcan has tapped school nutrition specialist Mike Burke, CFSP, as K-12 ambassador for its newly launched “Just 4 Schools” program addressing the changing foodservice preparation needs of the K-12 segment; Burke…
MOREThe FEDA Education Foundation has awarded 2013 ServSafe Scholarships to John Crow and Nora Ramirez of Ace Mart Restaurant Supply and Tiffanny Forgette, Lindsay Hooton and Cody Riebe of Burkett Restaurant Equipment. More scholarships are available to employees of
MOREI’ve been having conversations about changes in the structure of the equipment and supplies market with a number of leading manufacturers the past few weeks. A clear trend is the impact of consolidation. Now that the Great Recession is mostly over and credit is flowing more or less freely, we’ve seen a wave of mergers…
MORETriMark Century Concepts has moved to a brand-new location on Jimmy Carter Blvd. in Peachtree Corners, Ga. The new facility features a 60,000-sq.-ft. warehouse and consolidates the company’s Atlanta and Suwanee operations. “The move has more than doubled the capacity of our warehouse operations,” says Scott Bishop, president of the full-service dealer. “We can offer…
MOREWe released our forecasts for growth of the foodservice equipment and supplies market last week during FER’s annual President’s Preview E&S Market Forecast meeting, held at the Westin O’Hare in Rosemont, Ill. As we wrote a couple weeks ago (see story here), the rest of this year looks stronger than the very weak E&S market…
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