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January 5, 2015
Most Major Markets Saw Flat Or Falling Third Quarter 2013 Traffic, Reports NPD
“Glorious” fall weather helped drive a 2% gain in restaurant traffic in the third quarter in the United Kingdom, versus the year-earlier third quarter, but traffic was flat or negative in nearly all the other markets tracked by The NPD Group’s global foodservice practice during the quarter ended September. Traffic was negative in Italy, Spain…
January 5, 2015
Toast Made Fast And Smart
It’s spot-on technology, not to mention speed and versatility, that creates the best toast in town. Hatco’s new Intelligent Toast-Qwik holds up to 18 product settings for everything from bagels to Texas toast to hash browns. The ITQ features individually controlled top and bottom heating elements, and a multispeed two-directional conveyor belt with Hatco’s patented…
January 5, 2015
Middleby Opens Office In Dubai
Middleby Middle East opened in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, last month. The grand opening coincided with the Feb. 23-27 Gulfood Show at Za’abeel Hall in Dubai. The new location serves the Middle East with technical support, design services and a test kitchen for customers while covering all three Middleby platforms: commercial foodservice, food processing and…
January 5, 2015
Americold Appoints Fred Boehler As President
Americold, the Atlanta-based maker of temperature-controlled warehousing and logistics, has named COO Fred Boehler as its new president. Boehler will hold both titles as he assumes the senior executive leadership role at Americold. Jeffrey Gault, president/CEO, is retiring; he’ll continue to serve on the company’s board of trustees and work with Boehler to ensure a…
January 5, 2015
Blanco’s AirServe Trolley Offers Broad Flexibility
The new Blanco AirServe Trolley makes food delivery a reliable, multidimensional process whether an operator is making 50 or 5,000 meals a day. The compact hot-air regeneration cart gives operators varied flexibility when loading hot and cold meal portions. The interior thermal partition wall is set asymmetrically and can be positioned at different depths in…
January 5, 2015
Golden Gate Inks $2.1 Billion Deal To Buy Red Lobster
Darden Restaurants announced Friday that it had agreed to sell its 700-unit Red Lobster chain and related real estate assets to private equity firm Golden Gate Capital for $2.1 billion in cash. Darden said the sale—which defies activist investors who opposed plans to shed the struggling seafood chain— was not subject to shareholder approval and…
January 5, 2015
Boneheads Makes Major Expansion Plans
Global ambitions are on the agenda at Boneheads Grilled Fish and Chicken. The nine-unit fast-casual chain plans to open 50 stores in the next three years and will debut overseas through a franchise agreement for five stores in Pakistan. Two locations will open by the end of the year. Atlanta-based Boneheads also has inked a…
January 5, 2015
Breville To Distribute PolyScience’ Sous Vide Products
Australia’s Breville Pty Ltd. and Chicago’s PolyScience have inked a strategic alliance in which Breville will acquire the distribution rights for current and future PolyScience Culinary products in both the consumer and commercial channels. PolyScience, originally known for its scientific temperature control equipment, makes foodservice products, including sous vide immersion circulators, vacuum packaging systems, anti-griddle…
January 5, 2015
Popeyes’ CEO Moves Over To Pei Wei
Ralph Bower, pres.-U.S. of Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen, has been named CEO of Pei Wei Asian Diner. It’s a newly created position at the Scottsdale, Ariz.-based fast-casual chain, which has 192 domestic locations in 24 states. Bower, who replaces K.C. Moylan, is a veteran of KFC and Domino’s; he’d been president of Popeyes’ U.S. division since…
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