When we had our all-staff come-together to hammer out the 2013 editorial calendar last June, we also put our heads together to discuss what we’d like to see in an FER redesign. It’s been a few years since our last makeover, and it was time to stop and ask, how can we best deliver information…

We’re very proud that way back in 1984, when we were at what was then known as Foodservice Equipment Specialist, we created the Young Lion Awards. We were younger then. And it’s been fun over the years to bump into our early winners and laugh about how we’ve all grown up in the industry together.…

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We now have seen all the third-quarter equipment and supplies market data, as well as the October Restaurant Performance Index, the November consumer confidence measures, and the like. The pols are in full strutting posture as they peer over the fiscal cliff or slope or whatever you call it. It all adds up to a…

Diversified Foodservice Supply, the parent company of AllPoints Foodservice Parts and Supplies, Tundra Specialties, and other brands in the parts, supplies, equipment and accessories distribution industry, has acquired Franklin Machine Products. Better known as FMP, the 94-year-old Lumberton, N.J., company is a leading distributor of foodservice repair parts and accessories. Current FMP Pres. Joe Grato…

Two months after it strengthened its presence in the South by acquiring Georgia-based Century Concepts, distribution giant

Have you saved the date for FER‘s evening honoring 17 organizations and individuals? The new industry awards event Friday evening, Feb. 8, during The NAFEM `13 Show, includes dinner and awards presentations at the Peabody Hotel in Orlando, Fla. Among the winners are operators Subway and the foodservice operations at the Wexner Medical Center at The…

The looming fiscal cliff appears to have given restaurant operators a case of vertigo. The prospect of rapidly rising prices for key proteins may be adding to the swoon. For the first time in 14 months, the National Restaurant Association’s Restaurant Performance Index fell below the 100 level the index uses to separate industry expansion…