Make your kitchen safer, more sanitary, and more efficient by installing a hose reel from T&S. Offering power and precision for everything from clean-up to ware washing, you’ll wonder why you didn’t get rid of your mop and bucket long ago. Review the many options and accessories available in T&S’s new hose reel brochure, which…
The Josper by Wood Stone Charcoal Broiler Oven is an elegant combination of solid fuel charcoal broiler and oven in one package. Loved equally by steak houses, artisan bistros, tapas cafes and the culinary elite, it finds its home in the serious kitchen.Wood Stone Corp.
I’m fond of saying the foodservice equipment and industry is a very big business and a very small town. When I asked my friend Ken Gill nearly 20 years ago if we could borrow a couple million dollars to start Foodservice Equipment Reports, he asked me what I wanted to do with my life. I…
Private-equity firm Lorraine Capital has acquired all of the stock in Buffalo Hotel Supply Co., the Amherst, N.Y., family-owned dealership with its fourth generation at the helm. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Buffalo Hotel Supply has 70 employees in its three offices in Buffalo, Rochester and Albany. The company also has a custom…
The FEDA Education Foundation has awarded 12 scholarships for the University of Innovative Distribution program next year. This year’s recipients are: Ray Garcia, Ace Mart Restaurant Supply, San Antonio. Kevin Wilkinson, Bargreen Ellingson, Tacoma, Wash. Alan Krakowiak, Buffalo Hotel Supply Co., Amherst, N.Y. Nathan Beucler, Burkett Restaurant Equipment, Toledo, Ohio. Mike Slapak, Central Restaurant Products,…
Joel Kulwin passed away Nov. 10 after a short battle with acute leukemia. He was 61. Kulwin had a long and varied sales career in the E&S and hospitality industries. Most recently, he served as South Florida district manager for Sysco Guest Supply. In the early 1980s, he was merchandise manager of Edward Don Co.…
Check it out, check it off: Membership dues invoices recently sent to FEDA members include a line item to donate $250 to help combat interior design legislation. Over the past few years, a number of bills that would significantly impede dealers’ ability to perform interior design functions have been introduced on a state-by-state basis. FEDA…
Robert Perlick, the former president of Perlick Corp., died Nov. 29 at age 92. After serving in U.S. Navy during World War II aboard the USS New York, Perlick joined his father and two uncles at the family business established as R. Perlick Brassworks in Milwaukee in 1917. He spent his career at Perlick Corp.,…
The lowest gasoline prices in five years have restaurant operators feeling bubbly. The National Restaurant Association’s Restaurant Performance Index jumped nearly two full points in October to reach 102.8. It was the RPI’s highest mark since December 2004. The index has remained in expansion territory—readings above 100—for 20 consecutive months. “The positive same-store sales and…
The Business Barometer from the Manufacturers’ Agents Association for the Foodservice Industry improved modestly in the third quarter 2014. Overall sales rose 3.9% compared to the third quarter in 2013. This was improvement over 2Q’s 3.1% increase and a 3.3% gain 1Q. But the real story is the wide disparities between MAFSI regions. Sales boomed…