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January 6, 2014
Forty-Hour Workweek Bills Introduced In Congress
Congress has adjourned for the next month, but left behind in both houses are bills that seek to establish the Affordable Care Act’s definition of full-time as 40 hours per week. The ACA currently establishes that businesses with more than 50 full-time workers must provide health insurance for full-time employees who work either 30 hours…
January 6, 2014
Austin Considers Ban On New QSRs
Austin, Texas—home to great music, great food and FER‘s own MUFES program—is considering a ban on the building of new quick-service restaurants. The Austin city council is considering a resolution that, if passed, would “restrict fast-food restaurants from locating near areas that children frequent.” Those areas would include schools, municipal parks, child-care centers and libraries….
January 6, 2014
Ron Snyder Joins Robot Coupe
Ronald Snyder has joined Robot Coupe U.S.A as the Jackson, Miss., company’s market solutions adviser. Snyder, a degreed culinary chef, has spent the last 11 years working as a regional sales manager or manufacturer sales representative for Rational USA, Jay Mark Group and Mirkovich & Associates. At Robot, he’ll focus on expanding multiunit business—including in…
January 6, 2014
Trio Establishes New England Rep Firm
Three well-known industry names have joined forces under one roof as manufacturer’s sales representatives. GMV Sales, based in Westboro, Mass., represents 16 factories and covers the New England states of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont (MAFSI Region 1). The trio include 30-year industry vet Kevin Golden, who has held leadership posts…
January 6, 2014
First Impressions From This Year’s Top Dealers
Chris Palmer and I will compile the numbers for this year’s FER Top Dealer Report this week. We want to first thank all those who reported and verified, especially those dealers who verified for the first time this year. We had a significant influx of new verifiers. Thanks again. And though I haven’t reviewed all…
January 6, 2014
Top Dealers Had A Very Good 2012
We’ve now toted up the results from our third annual Foodservice Equipment Reports Top Dealer Report. The 46 companies that verified their volumes this year had a very good year in 2012, at least on the top line as a group. The Top Dealers had combined revenues of nearly $4.4 billion last year; half of…
January 6, 2014
Greg Wait, Salvajor Sales Chief, Passes Reins To Huston
Greg Wait, who spent 30 years as v.p.-sales and marketing at The Salvajor Co., is moving on. Amy Huston, director of sales, now will be leading the Kansas City, Mo., company’s sales team. Huston has been focused on dealer sales, covering all areas of the country, since 2008. She is a 25-year veteran of the…
January 6, 2014
TriMark Century Concepts Consolidates In Metro Atlanta Operation
TriMark Century Concepts has moved to a brand-new location on Jimmy Carter Blvd. in Peachtree Corners, Ga. The new facility features a 60,000-sq.-ft. warehouse and consolidates the company’s Atlanta and Suwanee operations. “The move has more than doubled the capacity of our warehouse operations,” says Scott Bishop, president of the full-service dealer. “We can offer…
January 6, 2014
Playing With My Friends
I got up very early today to write my FER Dealer Report editorial, because I have to catch a plane this morning from Chicago to Birmingham, Ala., on my way to West Point, Miss. I fully intended to discuss the slow revival of the publicly funded spec-market segments. But after lining up all the research,…
January 6, 2014
McNulty Joins Singer’s National Accounts Contract Division
Singer Equipment Co. has hired Susan McNulty as director of sales-national accounts contract division. She’ll report to division v.p. Brian Morehead, and be based in New York City. Before joining Singer, McNulty worked for more than twenty years for Paramount Restaurant Supply in Warren, R.I. Pres./CEO Fred Singer called McNulty a great addition to the…
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