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The number of restaurants in the U.S. fell again in the year ended March 31, 2016, according to the latest data from The NPD Group’s…

A number of you kindly wrote to comment on my September 7 FER Dealer Report opinion piece, “Where do we find the next generation?” Everyone…

Thanks to support from FEDA’s Diamond Donors, the association’s Education Foundation is once again offering scholarships as an incentive for dealer employees to pursue Certified…

Autumn isn’t just time for football and college applications, it’s time for foodservice equipment manufacturers to apply for the 2017 Kitchen Innovations Awards. The NRA program,…

Heritage Foodservice Group has hired industry veteran Tom Szafranski as Executive V.P.- Commercial Business Development.  Szafranski is directing the Chain, Service Agent and International business…

The recipients of FER’s 2017 Industry Excellence Awards for the Dealer category have been unveiled. Two dealerships and two individuals have been recognized for excellence…

Fiskars has sold Spring USA, the suburban Chicago maker of buffet systems, cooking stations and heat lamps, to a Minneapolis private equity company. The new…

Specifi LLC, the Chicago-based software design program for the foodservice industry, has named Suzanne Supplee to its advisory board. Supplee recently completed a short-term assignment…

The 310-unit Wetzel’s Pretzels snack chain was acquired September 8 by Dallas-based private-equity firm CenterOak Partners. The chain’s previous owners Leichtman Capital Partners exited after…

One feature of FER‘s annual E&S market forecast, unveiled August 9 at the magazine’s President’s Preview E&S Market Forecast meeting, is detailed data on manufacturer…