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January 27, 2015
Winterhalter Innovates With Smart, Efficient Warewashing Heat Pump
Winterhalter’s PT Series warewashers, already impressive when it comes to cleaning results, speed and economic efficiency, now set a benchmark for a better kitchen climate and lower operating costs. Its rack pass-through warewashers are the first to offer the newly developed, highly efficient ClimatePlus heat pump, which takes the thermal energy from the machine and…
January 27, 2015
Pokka Café Plans China Expansion
Pokka Café HK will be expanding its coffee and Western-style casual-dining businesses into China. The Hong Kong-based chain operates 34 restaurants under 12 brands in Hong Kong and Macau, offering specialty coffee and casual dining. Its expansion will be guided by Shanghai-based Xiao Nan Guo Restaurants Holdings, which purchased 65% of Pokka Corp. last November…
January 27, 2015
Hanning’s High-Performance EC Fan Motors Move Hot Air
It takes more than a motor and a fan blade to move hot air. Putting high-performance ventilation in a small package takes smart engineering and design. Hanning Elektro-Werke provides high efficiency and variable speeds within small dimensions in its line of Haventic Varicon fans. The fans, featuring electrically commutated (EC) synchronous motors, excel through engineering….
January 20, 2015
Pittsburgh, Seattle Consider Letter Grades
Pittsburgh and Seattle are the latest large metropolitan areas to consider requiring restaurants to post health department inspection letter grades on their doors. Operators in those two cities want more say in how the process will work Backers of the measures point to the self-proclaimed success of New York City, where the health department boasts…
January 20, 2015
T&S Honored As Top Factory
T&S Brass and Bronze Works has been singled out by IndustryWeek magazine as having one of the best manufacturing plants in North America. The publication recognized T&S last week as one of six winners in its 25th annual Best Plants competition. IndustryWeek editors cited the Travelers Rest, S.C., plant as an efficient manufacturing operation dedicated…
January 20, 2015
Edlund Names Three To Sales Posts
Edlund Co., the Burlington, Vt., company celebrating its 90th anniversary this year, has named B.C. Roberts as its director of chain accounts. Formerly the director of sales-eastern region, he will now manage relationships with foodservice chains and work with chain-oriented dealers. Roberts also will continue managing sales in the Carolinas. Marie Boyd succeeds Roberts in…
January 20, 2015
One More Week To Weigh In On Motor Freight Issues Targeting Warewashers, Air Curtains
Two weeks ago in FER Fortnightly, we gave you the full details on proposed rate changes for shipping commercial warewashers and air curtains. Both segments are targeted for shipping classification upgrades by the National Motor Freight Traffic Association’s Commodity Classification Standards Board. The board meets next Tuesday, Jan. 27, leaving industry members nearly a week…
January 20, 2015
State Revenues Began To Grow Again In Third Quarter 2014, Crossing Fiscal “Trough”
State taxing bodies have finally crossed the fiscal “trough.” State tax revenues grew 4% on a quarter versus year prior basis in the third quarter 2014, according to preliminary data on 48 of the 50 states compiled by the Rockefeller Institute of Government, Albany, N.Y. The return to growth follows a widely anticipated slowing and…
January 20, 2015
Food Prices Forecast To Stabilize In 2015, As Wholesale Prices Fell, Menu Prices Rose in December
Wholesale food prices fell for the second consecutive month in December, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the National Restaurant Association, while menu and grocery-store prices continued to rise, pushed higher by earlier run-ups in wholesale prices. Meanwhile, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and others are predicting food prices should stabilize in the…
January 20, 2015
Gas Prices Still Falling; What Does It Mean For Foodservice?
It’s conventional wisdom that when gasoline prices come down, foodservice sales—at least at commercial operations—go up. It’s conventional wisdom because there is a huge body of evidence to support it. So we were taken back a bit when Joe Pawlak, v.p, at Technomic, told us last week that while lower gasoline prices are indeed a…
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