The old joke goes, how do you get to Carnegie Hall? Practice, practice, practice. In this industry, how does a company’s employees achieve a 75% first-time pass rate on the Foodservice Equipment Industry Certification exam required for Certified Foodservice Professional designation?  Commit to a group effort and study, review, repeat.Last month,

We’ve watched NRA’s Kitchen Innovations program grow up, and its 2011 crop of honorees do their suppliers, and the industry, proud.

With a NAFEM Show and other key events in 2011, our rounds at the trade show turned up some smart and unique technologies. Read on for 15 new products we thought deserved another look.

Yale’s challenge was to preserve the tradition of community dining at Stiles/Morse Colleges while leveraging the benefits of shared production and service.

Karen McCain has joined

Rick Brua has joined

FER will once again publish a listing of leading equipment and supplies dealers and distributors in its June issue. To make sure your company is part of this prestigious listing, sent annually to FER‘s nearly 20,000 multiunit operator subscribers, see more details and access the survey web link in Publisher Robin Ashton’s opinion piece below.