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April 19, 2016
Franke’s Espresso Machine Wins Kudos
Franke Coffee Systems’ new premium-class A600 Superautomatic Espresso Machine is one of the recipients of this year’s Kitchen Innovations Awards from the U.S.-based National Restaurant Association. It combines innovative FoamMaster technology with a patented brew unit and a breakthrough fully-automated clean-in-place system. Additionally, the intuitive eight-inch touchscreen, with both image and video capability, allows the…
April 19, 2016
Hanging With Tedde, Jim And The Gang
It’s mid-April and dealer buying group season is in full-swing. PRIDE met a couple weeks ago. SEFA met in Kapalua, Maui, Hawaii last week, and IFED meets this week. ABC and Excell will convene in May. Tedde and Jim Reid, who started SEFA 30 years ago, were kind enough to invite me to Kapalua to…
April 19, 2016
UK Foodservice Sales Growth To Slow Slightly In 2016
A slight slowdown in growth of the British economy, a somewhat more cautious consumer, and the uncertainties surrounding the referendum on the United Kingdom’s continued membership in the European Union are among the “stones in the road” impacting the foodservice market in the UK These factors and others led London-based foodservice research firm Horizons to forecast a…
April 19, 2016
LaForge Gets New Post At Stoelting
Stoelting/Vollrath Co. has appointed industry veteran J. (John) LaForge as Chain Accounts Sales Manager. LaForge will focus on improving Stoelting’s competitive position and chain penetration, direct efforts to support distributors, work with product managers on new product concepts and monitor existing operator programs. He’ll report to Greg Stak, director-sales operations at the Kiel, Wis., manufacturer. In his 17-year foodservice…
April 19, 2016
4Q Sales Rose In Nearly All Major Global Markets
Despite political and economic turmoil in many of the world’s major foodservice markets, sales and customer traffic rose, according to the latest data from The NPD Group’s CREST studies. Traffic rose more than 2% in Australia, China and Great Britain, and also was positive in Spain, Italy and the U.S. Traffic in France had been…
April 14, 2016
Specifi, Equipment Specification Software Firm, Buys UK BIM Supplier
Specifi LLC, the Chicago-based provider of end-to-end design information and solutions supporting the foodservice equipment specification process, has agreed to purchase the business of Schematic Ltd, a UK-based supplier of Building Information Modeling (BIM) software, content creation and repository services to the European foodservice equipment industry. Terms of the agreement, announced April 14, have not…
April 12, 2016
Axel Beck Named To Top Spot At Hobart/ITW Global Ware Wash
ITW Group has appointed Axel Beck, Hobart General Manager and Vice President, as Group President Global Ware Wash. Beck will keep his offices in Offenburg, site of Hobart’s European headquarters. The European and Asian Hobart companies as well as the American and the Italian warewashing group will report directly to him there. Beck joined Hobart…
April 11, 2016
Colorado Might Swap Restaurant Grades For Higher Inspection Fees
With restaurants in some of its largest counties going two years between inspections due to a lack of trained inspectors, Colorado is looking at new ways to pay for ensuring clean, food-safe kitchens. A 14-page bill in the state’s General Assembly would increase the fees used to hire restaurant inspectors, a boon to the coffers…
April 11, 2016
Ontario Clears The Air: No Smoking Means No Vaping
Ontario’s government has proposed changes to its indoor smoking regulations which would prohibit the use of e-cigarettes and the smoking and vaping of medical marijuana in all enclosed public places. The issue came to light recently when Ontario introduced regulations to allow medical marijuana users to be exempt from public smoking bans. At the time,…
April 11, 2016
First-Quarter Blahs Hit Macro Forecasts Again
The consensus forecasts for the general economy slipped in the latest Blue Chip Economic Indicators survey released April 10, as the first-quarter “blahs” undercut the annual forecast again this year. The forecast for annualized growth of real domestic product in the U.S. in first quarter 2016 dropped 0.7 point to 1.3, which pushed the forecast…
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