Operators offer value meals and discount menus to their customers. Now, through the end of the year, dealers can offer some cost savings to the operators.Manitowoc Foodservice is offering a zero-percent financing program for 24 months on purchases now through December 14. Qualified operators can access foodservice equipment from the New Port Richey, Fla., company’s…

Carl Mulder has been appointed by Aladdin Temp-Rite as v.p.-sales and marketing. He will manage the direct sales team, national accounts, customer service as well as marketing communications. Mulder will report to Marty Rothschild, president of the Hendersonville, Tenn., company. Mulder has been with Aladdin for 17 years, most recently as director of domestic sales.…

The Foodservice Equipment Distributors Association is amping up efforts to boost its members’ professionalism and credentials. The FEDA Education Foundation will present 30 scholarships each for Certified Foodservice Professional and ServSafe certification. Dealers who earn CFSP or ServSafe certification in 2012 are eligible to apply for the scholarships. The CFSP scholarship provides $200 and the…

The demonstration kitchen at Accurex headquarters has added three new customer training programs. The Greenheck Product Center in Schofield, Wis., now hosts overviews on kitchen ventilation systems; energy-saving kitchen ventilation, including variable volume systems; and kitchen ventilation design. The latter includes discussions on proper design strategies and different applications involving hood sizing, grease-filtration selection, utility…

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I was in Miami, at the Doral Country Club during a monsoon, at the annual meeting of the Association of Healthcare Foodservice June 21, when I heard Mitch Schechter had died. Our dear friend, and Mitch’s, Donna Boss, was with us in Miami, and filled us in with what she knew. (And helped write the…

At the 11th hour, our excellent unit design article, which was all laid out and printer-ready, fell through. The chain’s PR department ultimately determined information on its new prototype was too new to be publicized. We honored the request to pull the story, despite how late it arrived in the process. And so Janice Cha,…