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Eighteen foodservice industry professionals have been named scholarship recipients by the Foodservice Equipment Distributors Association’s Educational Foundation. The scholarships are for the 2012 University of…

The giant North American foodservice distributors, dominated by broadliners, have been increasing their share of the overall foodservice distribution market for years. A new study…

This will be our last FER Dealer Report e-newsletter of the year. In two weeks, it’ll be Dec. 27 and we’re giving Jan, our news…

The market for automated ordering systems might get a boost in eight states facing big minimum-wage increases on New Year’s Day. Nationally, the minimum wage…

Where there’s a plastic toy desired by small children, there’s a way. As Dec. 1 dawned and San Francisco’s ban on restaurants (i.e. fast-food chains)…

Bricks and mortar, stainless and aluminum all wear out and break down. The foodservice industry has benefited recently from some critical tax benefits on construction…

Both the Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment Index and The Conference Board’s Consumer Confidence Index improved last month, finally getting back to last summer’s…

The national news and business media worked hard parsing last week’s report on employment from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The reasons were simple, if…

October wasn’t a great month for restaurant operators surveyed by the National Restaurant Association, but in spite of soft sales and traffic, they are feeling…

Blended revenues for seven large publicly traded equipment and supplies companies rose again in the third quarter, the sixth consecutive quarter of gains versus the…