Restaurant Daily News in Chicago • May 19, 2019

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How Innovation Moves Food Safety Forward

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NSF Wireless Portion Control Scale Delivers Cost Savings to Food Preparation

Strong Partnership Between Sodexo and Carla’s Pasta

Made in the USA Versus Imported Brick Ovens

RDN: How long have you been with Sodexo, and what are your current responsibilities there?

RDN: Made in the USA versus imported brick ovens. Why are restaurateurs finding this to be such a difficult decision?

An interview with Rob Morasco CEC, Senior Director Culinary Development, Culinary Solutions, Sodexo.

SG: In terms of food safety, innovation is critical for two reasons. Firstly, it enhances the ability of a restaurant to find problems and to find problems sooner. That instantly raises the operation’s food safety profile – they serve safer food more reliably and are

Yamato offers the NSF approved AWWPS Wireless Platform Scale, perfect for portion control in the preparation of pizza, baked goods and other food preparations. It consists of a large 14-inch by 14-inch removable stainless steel platform for easy cleanup. The wireless feature of the WPS allows you to mount the display in the most convenient position using the included wall mounting bracket.

No cable or wires are needed to

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An interview with Steven Getraer, President, CM Systems LLC. RDN: What is the link between innovation and food safety?

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Damascus Bakeries: Bred to Bread

Vertullo Imports Offers Highest-Quality Specialty Items An interview with Paul Vertullo, Chief Operating Officer, Vertullo Imports.

An interview with David Mafoud, Principal and Third-Generation Baker, Damascus Bakeries.

RDN: You have a new bakery. What is your vision for this new facility?

DM: To start, more of the same. More lavash and flatbreads, and certainly, more of our Brooklyn Bred® Bistro breads, which have been a wonderful growth segment for our company.

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RM: Twenty-two years in February – I started as an Executive Chef at the University of Mary Washington and the rest, as they say, is history. I now manage all of the culinary development for Continued on Page 93

Excel Dryer Expands and Enhances Hand Hygiene

An interview with William Gagnon, Vice President of Sales and Marketing, Excel Dryer, Inc.

An interview with Francesco Marra, President and Chief Executive Officer, Marra Forni.

FM: When consumers are not educated about a particular product, they fall for the cheaper price. You might save a little bit of money today, but in the long term, you’re going to spend so much more. If

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Smitty Bee Honey: A Sweet Success Story

PV: Vertullo Imports is a high-end importer and marketer, offering a wide array of specialty products and the highest quality imported items.

RDN: What types of items are you importing?

WG: Excel Dryer is a family-owned, Massachusetts-based company that’s been manufacturing the finest American-made hand dryers for more than 50 years. We revolutionized the industry with the original, patented, high-speed, energy-efficient XLERATOR® Hand Dryer that created

For over 95 years, Smitty Bee has been passionate about producing and packaging high quality honey. That passion has helped create one of the most respected honey packaging businesses in the industry.

Louis Henkelman, who always had a love for honey, started producing honey from a single colony hobbyist kit from Sears and Roebuck. In those days, honey could only be obtained by raising your own bees. At this time, honey was a novelty item and not mass

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RDN: Tell our readers a little bit about Vertullo Imports.

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RDN: What is Excel Dryer all about?

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Amoroso’s Is How Great Sandwiches Roll The quality of the bread you offer customers says a lot about the quality of your restaurant, sandwich shop, supermarket, grocery store, sports or entertainment venue or foodservice operation.

That’s why Amoroso’s Hearth-Baked Bread and Rolls will help attract new customers and enhance the reputation of your business.

For more than 115 years, beginning in 1904 in Philadelphia, Amoroso’s Baking Company and its authentic Italian Hearth-Baked Bread and Rolls have been the stuff legendary Philly cheesesteaks, hoagies, roast beef and roast pork sandwiches made their reputations on. Over the past 40 years, that reputation has spread across the country and around the

world. Amoroso’s now offers its extended shelf-life items that have been inspired

by Amoroso’s sandwich rolls in Philadelphia for commissaries and grab and go applications.

Amoroso’s is “Why Philly sandwiches are world-famous.”™ Now the classic Philly sandwich rolls, synonymous with Philadelphiastyle sandwiches, are available anywhere in the United States or around the world.

So recognizable is the quality of Amoroso’s frozen products, Philadelphia natives immediately recognize Amoroso’s unique taste and high quality.

With the resources and capacity to service both small and large businesses, supply fresh or frozen bread and rolls –

Aardvark Straws Offers Customizable Paper Straws Aardvark® Straws, the original U.S. producer of paper straws, offers customizable paper straws for your brand and can include company names and logos. No other paper straws on the market offer the wide variety of printing that Aardvark does, all while remaining earth and marine friendly. Aardvark is also uniquely positioned in the USA to provide lower minimum order quantities of four cases and a newly published lead time of four weeks.

Foodservice providers, restaurants, businesses and more can advertise their brands on Aardvark Straws through its four-color process print capabilities, which makes for standout logos and designs. Aardvark paper straws are manufactured with a proprietary method that creates superior paper straws and are specifically made not to disintegrate, get soggy or fall apart.

In addition to its customization capabilities, Aardvark patented the one-of-a-

even design custom products tailored to specific company needs – Amoroso’s is the local Philly bakery that’s an international resource.

Now the rolls that made Philly sandwiches world-famous are available worldwide.

Amoroso’s also offers a wide array of specialty goods, including, but not limited to, rye breads and other variety sliced breads, bagels, table breads, burger buns and more.

Visit Amoroso’s at booth #1835. For more information, call sales at 215.863.8815, email sales@amorosobaking.com or go to www.amorosobaking.com.

kind, bendable EcoFlex® paper straw, which can be positioned at an angle that a consumer needs or wants to sip it from. Like all Aardvark paper straws, the Eco-Flex is marine degradable, compostable, elemental chlorine free, and won’t break down in your drink.

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500-plus SKECHERS retail stores in the United States and Canada.

“This cost-free program has some incredible benefits and will provide your employees with a substantial discount on safe, comfortable and durable trend-right footwear resulting in improved worker safety, morale and overall efficiency,” says Harold Surabian, National Sales Manager.

The SKECHERS Direct program is available to companies with 200 or more employees and who are based in the United States or Canada. The program

offers employees a year-round 30 percent discount on SKECHERS slipresistant work shoes and corporate casual styles. All of the SKECHERS slip-resistant shoes are ASTM Mark II tested to meet or exceed a coefficient of friction of 0.50 or greater.

Included in the program is SKECHERS $5,000 Slip and Fall Warranty that helps protect your company from costly slip-and-falls. In addition, employees will benefit from SKECHERS Quarterly Friends and Family Days events on shoes for the entire family, including kids’ shoes, walking shoes, running shoes and even golf shoes (30 percent off on over 3,000 great styles).

Should you choose to participate, you may also offer your employees a payroll deduction program for their shoe purchases, which would enable them to spread the cost of their shoes over multiple paychecks. This part of the program is entirely optional for the employer, and you need not offer a payroll deduction plan to enable your employees to enjoy all the other benefits of the SKECHERS Direct Corporate Shoe Program.

more jobs and boost the economy, along with bringing more manufacturing back to the United States.

Along with its growth location wise, Karat by Lollicup has launched a variety of new products this past year. Brands Karat, Karat Earth® and Tea Zone® have expanded and will continue to do so in 2019. Over the past year, it has focused a lot of attention on its eco-friendly line Karat Earth, launching new products to help customers easily find eco-friendly products they need.

The eco-friendly line welcomed new

paper and PLA straws to help customers find their solution to straw bans; it also launched a variety of PLA take-out containers, allowing customers more eco-friendly disposable options.

Karat launched new take out containers and more supplies to help you get your business up and running. Karat offers stretch wrap film, thermal receipt rolls and even sanitation solutions that goes farther than just foodservice disposables. Karat takes the initiative to satisfy customers by creating products with them in mind.

With Karat’s flexibility, it is allowed to offer customers exactly

what they want. When it comes to operating a business, it hopes to help customers find most of what they would need from takeout containers to warehouse and janitorial supplies.

Tea Zone is the premium beverage ingredient line, and it launched some fun new flavors of popping pearls. It also launched new purees, sweeteners and wafer sticks to help you get creative in the kitchen.

For the first time, operators can deploy a full, single-vendor suite of integrated software applications and hardware solutions to automate their back-of-house operations. Given the priority placed on having employees deliver the best customer experience in an environment with rising food and labor costs, all restaurant and food service companies are focused on adding automation and reducing administrative tasks in their back-of-house operations to increase efficiency and lower costs.

“Over the last several years, we have spent considerable time working with operators across the industry, including in their kitchens, to determine how best to help them address these critical needs.

One of our key learnings was that restau-

rant and foodservice operators want to simplify their processes with a single platform, single portal solution that provides the highest level of relevant features and functionality while eliminating the complexity of managing multiple software and hardware products from multiple vendors. The result of our tireless efforts is the development of BOHA!, an innovative range of products that can address what we believe is a large opportunity to offer automated solutions that streamline critical back-of-house processes. With BOHA!, TransAct is uniquely positioned to deliver a comprehensive ecosystem of cloud-based SaaS apps, hardware and accessories.”

Featuring these beautiful truffles on your menu and in a display case is the perfect way to entice your customers.

As they arrive, they will be greeted by the promise of a high-quality, gourmet dessert. Even if they decide against indulging immediately after their meal, they can purchase truffles as they leave to be enjoyed later. This is an easy add-on sale and has no need for any preparation, just bag or box and go.

DeBrand is also happy to provide artwork and product descriptions for menus, displays and social media advertising.

DeBrand recommends carrying an

ongoing selection of at least four to six different truffles to provide a wide selection and an eye-catching display. Its four most popular truffles are Dark Chocolate, Caramel, Peanut Butter and Raspberry. In addition to selling truffles by the piece, they are also available in prepackaged assortments, ideal for holidays, events and when guests are in a hurry. DeBrand Truffles deliver a high-quality, gourmet chocolate experience that your guests are sure to remember.

Benefits of the SKECHERS Direct Corporate Shoe Program Are you tired of costly slip-and-falls? Are you frustrated with your current shoe program? The SKECHERS Direct Corporate Shoe Program is the answer.

This program is cost-free with no minimum purchasing requirements or setup fees – your employees buy direct from SKECHERS and save.

SKECHERS will put together a custom ecommerce site and will customize the selection based on your company’s uniform policy. Your employees can purchase shoes online with free shipping and free returns or by shopping at any of the

Karat by Lollicup: New Location and Products

By Kendra Cerbasi, Marketing Coordinator, Karat® by Lollicup™

Karat by Lollicup is expanding its efforts all around, from production to service. A second manufacturing plant opened in Rockwall, Texas, this past year and is almost double the size of the current headquarters in Chino, California.

The thought behind the Texas location was to allow Karat by Lollicup more capabilities and to expand its abilities in production, manufacturing and distribution. This new location will help create

TransAct Technologies Introduces BOHA! TransAct® Technologies Incorporated, a global leader in software-driven technology and printing solutions for highgrowth markets, announced the launch of BOHA!™, a comprehensive ecosystem of cloud-based SaaS apps and hardware solutions that will revolutionize how restaurant and food service companies manage their back-of-house operations. BOHA! is the first singlevendor solution to combine applications for inventory management, temperature monitoring of food and equipment, food safety labeling, food recalls, checklists and procedures, equipment service management and delivery management in a single platform. Each BOHA! solution combines

cloud-based SaaS applications with hardware and accessories to deliver superior results for critical back-ofhouse operations. BOHA! offers a onestop solution for restaurants and foodservice companies to address their current back-of-house operating requirements while providing a future-ready platform capable of addressing backof-house operations as they continue to evolve.

Bart C. Shuldman, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of TransAct Technologies, said, “The launch of our new BOHA! SaaS-based software and hardware ecosystem marks a significant milestone for TransAct and the restaurant and foodservice industry.

DeBrand: The Easiest Gourmet Dessert Experience DeBrand Fine Chocolate’s irresistible silky, rich truffles are petite, gourmet chocolate desserts, perfect for the table or to go. DeBrand Truffles boast a minimum shelf life of two months at room temperature, with no need for refrigeration or preparation by your staff. All varieties are guaranteed in stock and are available to ship within one to two business days, all year round. DeBrand packaging is also available for purchase, and its truffle wholesale prices are currently set for resellers to earn a margin over 62

percent. DeBrand makes it easy to offer a gourmet chocolate experience yearround.

These are the perfect dessert to complement your menu that requires no preparation. DeBrand Truffles are the luxurious sweet conclusion that will entice each and every customer. These 12 incredible variations seem almost too beautiful to eat ... almost! Each oversized piece is individually and artistically designed, but their true beauty lies within.

For more information, visit the SKECHERS Direct Booth in the South Hall at booth #3126. After the show, call Harold Surabian at 310.318.3100, ext. 1860 or email haroldsu@skechers.com.

For more information, visit booth #1257, go to www.karatpackaging.com or www .lollicupusa.com, call 626.965.8882 or email marketing@karatpackaging.com.

For more information, visit booth #6657.

For more information, visit booth #10618.

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Renau Introduces New Generation of ARM Cortex-Powered Touchscreens Renau’s new UCM-2000 Series of nextgeneration ARM Cortex-A7 based PCAP touchscreens designed specifically with the foodservice industry in mind give foodservice equipment operators complete control over their commercial foodservice equipment. Unlike older capacitive touch solutions, these state-ofthe-art capacitive touchscreens can easily be used by while wearing gloves.

Available in 4.3-, 6.8- and 10-inch screen sizes, the UCM-2000 Series offers equipment operators a sophisticated control that can be configured and installed either horizontally or vertically on the front of a controlled appliance. Measuring less than 1.91 inches deep, the UCM-2000 Series is compact and versatile enough to allow equipment manufacturers to mount it

on virtually any available panel space.

Each size also offers the choice of bezel or flush mount models. Using Renau’s Single Wire Communication and wireless Renau.Net Networks, the UCM-2000 Series connects to any of Renau’s compact, powerful hybrid micro process controllers to monitor and control even the most intensive and demanding applications, reducing the need for expensive and complicated harnesses.

With the ability to quickly and easily access and select programs and recipes, as well as full support for safety and compliance processes like HACCP, user manuals, job aids and ingredient level and freshness monitoring, the UCM2000 offers unrivalled labor savings and ease of training. Equipment operators can

Norbec: High Quality, Durable Products Norbec is a North American company founded more than 35 years ago.

Specializing in custom manufacturing, Norbec has earned a solid reputation as a solution finder for the production of cold rooms, freezers and storage lines.

Even though cold storage products are Norbec’s cash cow, the company doesn’t want to limit itself to walk-in coolers and freezers. Over the past few years, the company has been increasingly developing its expertise in insulated metal panels and building envelopes.

Jan Lembregts, President of Norbec, explains, ‘’We thrive on building partnerships with our customers. We strive to offer a complete solution from conception to delivery, including support once the project is completed. We pride ourselves on manufacturing walk in coolers and freezers as well as architectural panels for the building envelope and interior

panels and doors.”

Norbec’s mission is to offer high quality and durable products that provide space optimization, work efficiency and security.

NextGrip, Slip-Resistant Floor Having a safe and secure work environment for employees is of the utmost importance in the foodservice industry.

The quest to find a floor that is both safe for employees and optimal for the work environment is constant, especially with the changes in temperature found in walk-in coolers and freezers.

Norbec is proud to present NextGrip, a new slip-resistant floor made up of an embossed pattern, strategically repeated to increase stability and adherence. The NextGrip is the solution you need to increase safety measures, contributing to a productive and enjoyable work environment.

Enhancing the Customer’s Experience, One Coffee at a Time Satisfaction and experience are pivotal factors behind a customer’s decision to visit a location or use a service again.

When customers are satisfied, not only will they be tempted to revisit a hotel or a restaurant, they will also tend to recommend the place to friends and acquaintances, bringing more business opportunities.

In an effort to make the customer’s experience fully satisfying, some restaurants perform better at providing the best value for money, quality of food and drinks or quality of service. But let’s be honest, most administrators will attempt to bring together all these aspects because they know that customers satisfaction is based upon the overall experience.

Take, for example, the case of a seafood restaurant having the best lobster tail in town accompanied with a splendid Chardonnay from the Russian

River Valley, offering only standard percolator coffee that has been standing for hours. Even though the customer may have enjoyed a great food and wine pairing, he will nevertheless remain bitter because the coffee he always orders after a meal is horrible. This detail, as trivial as it may seem, may affect the client’s experience negatively and cause them to never go back or recommend the place.

If that applies to dining, imagine what bad coffees can do to breakfast restaurants. You are remembered because of the coffee.

Three Innovative Brands Great news! Cafection | Evoca Group enters the North American HoReCa market. From the greatest drip coffee technology available to barista-quality espresso solutions, its HoReCa bean to cup brands will make the competition envious.

quickly and easily read the UCM-2000 Series’ high-resolution color display from across the kitchen, and because the screen is the interface, use is incredibly intuitive and easy and designed to help reduce operator error and food waste. The UCM-2000 Series can even help guide a service technician through troubleshooting and repair with advanced diagnostic functionality.

Easily upgradeable and fully reprogrammable, the UCM-2000 Series allows recipe menus and system configurations to be quickly updated through the mediation of Renau’s USB or Wireless Host Adaptors and smart device or cloud-based programming software, which allows for the creation of custom recipe menus, warning alarms, sound files, instruction manuals, user guides and system configurations that can be stored on an authorized Intelliref V2, Refrigeration Control System Thousands of dollars’ worth of food sits in a walk-in cooler and freezer. Guarding it with energy efficient and reliable products is top priority. Food needs to be maintained at cold temperatures to prevent the growth of bacteria and other microbes that make food spoil. If there is a problem with the refrigeration system, knowing as quickly as possible can prevent food and money loss. The IntellirefV2 allows you to control and monitor temperature to make sure food is kept at the right temperature. Options offered with the IntellirefV2 are a cost effective and worry-free solution to prevent food loss, save on expensive service calls and meet health requirements.

For Norbec, it is important to educate its customers on present and future regulations. It attaches great importance to product compliance and the standards of

Gaggia: Founded in 1948, heralding the modern age of espresso with the invention of steam-free coffee machines, Gaggia represents the true spirit and heritage of Italian espresso, taste and culture.

Saeco: As the first company in the world to develop the bean to cup (a completely automatic and innovative Italian espresso brewing system), Saeco Professional Division specializes in the out of home sector.

Cafection: Pioneer company to launch internet-connected and remotely manageable coffee machines, Cafection uses a unique reverse French press brewing system.

Three Flagship Models With a choice of three NSF 4 certified flagship models, Cafection | Evoca Group will help the food and beverage industry enhance the customer’s experience, one coffee at a time. Already a

user’s hard drive for future use and reference, or for larger organizations, shared with a remote location using Renau’s powerful Smart Kitchen Manager™ (SKM™) Software Servers. When it comes time to update the system, the desired update file can be downloaded via a flash drive or over the air update.

In order to perform in the most demanding foodservice industry environments, all Renau products are fully encapsulated for outstanding protection from extreme temperatures, humidity and shock. Designed and manufactured in the United States, all Renau products are rigorously tested and come with an industry-leading threeyear warranty.

For more information, visit www .renau.com, stop by booth #4652 or call 818.341.1994.

the food industry, as well as to energy standards. The company’s R&D team is always up-to-date with the latest changes in the industry in order to always ensure appropriate products and compliance with standards.

Norbec has a dedicated history in supporting its partners in the foodservice industry by providing innovative products and creating tailored solutions.

Like Jan Lembregts, President, explains, “I have always thought of measuring the quality of a partner as being able to solve problems. We know how to react quickly and well to solve any kind of complications, and our customers appreciate it. We are very rigorous in delivery times and offer outstanding technical support.”

Visit Norbec at booth #5457. For more information, go to www.norbec.com.

leader in the OCS industry with units in 80 percent of the Fortune 500, the elegant, affordable and reliable brewers capable of dispensing 65 to 75 coffees per hour are about to revolutionize the HoReCa market.

Kalea Plus: The outstanding throughput and speed of the Kalea Plus with fresh milk will satisfy even the most demanding customers, sip after sip.

Idea Restyle Duo: Equipped with a fresh milk module, the Idea Restyle Duo is undoubtedly the best choice for those who want a highly professional machine with an attractive look.

Encore 29: The fully customizable bean to cup Encore 29 prepares the best perfectly ground drip coffee, anywhere, at any time.

For more information, contact Mike Cochrane, Vice President Business Development and Key Accounts, at mcochrane@cafection.evocagroup.com and 800.561.6162, ext. 267.

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COSTA NOVA Unveils Two Signature Collections for the Hospitality Sector The Portuguese brand of fine stoneware, recognized throughout the retail sector for the quality of its tableware and accessories, begins the year 2019 with the aim of increasing its presence in the hospitality industry through the introduction of two exclusive collections for this market.

Developed in partnership with renowned German designer Carsten Gollnick, NÓTOS is a tableware collection designed exclusively for professionals in the hospitality sector, inspired by the remarkable color contrasts and structures of the Portuguese Atlantic coast.

Textured ceramic forms of pure and flowing lines are combined with metallic structures and organic materials such as cork and wood in a palette of light and dark tones that represent the contrasting

colors of the coastal landscape. From this border between the water and the land, the German designer has developed a collection of tableware perfect not only for presenting dishes with this coastal theme, but also for the presentation of gastronomic experiences of various cuisines and cultures.

Born in 1966 in Berlin, Carsten Gollnick is a reference of quality, innovation and aesthetic improvement in the culture of objects. His professional career is guided by numerous collaborations with companies and brands of excellence, museum pieces and a list with more than 80 awards and distinctions.

The NÓTOS collection is the first partnership developed with COSTA NOVA. The RODA collection was created by

AMPCO and Z-Ventilation Solutions Combine Forces to Offer Full Kitchen Exhaust System Solutions AMPCO and Z-Ventilation Services, a division of Zink Foodservice, have joined forces in a business partnership that offers customers highly customized kitchen exhaust system solutions.

AMPCO is an industry leader and innovator in the design and manufacture of quality, multi-use commercial and industrial venting systems. AMPCO product installations and applications include commercial kitchen grease ducts, dishwashers, pizza ovens, baking ovens, coffee roasters, brew kettles, boilers and more. All AMPCO products are UL test-

ed and listed to the most stringent safety standards.

Zink Foodservice provides comprehensive sales, marketing, distribution and installation services for premier manufacturers and authorized dealers of foodservice equipment and small-wares. Zink has a heavy focus on design specification, ordering, installation and after sale support.

“Our involvement working with the commercial kitchen design community helped us recognize that there was a need for more comprehensive ventilation solu-

Professional Juicers from Zumex An interview with Carlos Quintero, Sales and Marketing Director, Zumex North America.

RDN: What are some of the trends driving the selection of equipment in the grocery retail space today?

CQ: At Zumex®, we are committed to what we call Life Essence, a different way of understanding and enjoying a healthy lifestyle model with benefits for the body and mind. Healthy eating is a current that is gaining strength and it has come to stay.

The consumer is looking for an honest and transparent process, 100 percent natural in terms of fresh products. The objective of Zumex with the new Speed S +Plus has been to create a series of professional juicers that are able to convert supermarket shopping into a unique experience, because they allow con-

sumers to instantly, quickly and easily, prepare freshly squeezed juice by themselves to take away or to drink in the establishment.

RDN: Has Zumex seen increased interest from supermarket retailers interested in adding new equipment to their foodservice areas? If so, what products are they looking for?

CQ: Absolutely, yes. There are steps being taken now to create new spaces for the Zumex experience.

In fact, a great deal of retail chains have had Zumex Speed series machines on their shelves for some years, such as H-E-B, Kroger, Lucky’s Market, Whole Foods and Sprouts Farmers Market among others. The thing is to change the concept and move to the self-service juice station in order to increase the customer experience and transparency, tak-

Grandma’s Fruit & Nut Cake from Beatrice Bakery Packed with 70 percent wholesome fruits and nuts, this is not your average

fruitcake. Cherries, raisins and pineapple are joined by the highest-

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the Portuguese designer Torres Euracini, and is inspired by the “Circle of Friends.” The collection aims to bring everyone together at the table in a circle of friends to share memories and stories as they share a meal.

All the pieces of this collection are produced in the best and most resistant stoneware and have special and organic shapes suitable for demanding hospitality use due to its high level of resistance and performance. The five visual variants of RODA offer a wide range of possibilities to accommodate the best flavors of all seasons, masterfully created by the artists of fine dining and subtle taste. Fish and seafood dishes, meat and vegetables, among others dishes, find in this collection a special support for the irreverent success of the innovation and detail of the great chefs.

Born near the Atlantic, Torres

Euracini has decades of experience in the ceramic industry and with numerous achievement (mostly anonymously) accomplished throughout the world.

The RODA collection is his first signature collection.

COSTA NOVA creates its tableware collections with the same passion and motivation as chefs and caterers create their culinary masterpieces. The unique characteristics of its fine stoneware products, combined with its original design, functionality and durability, make the brand a reference in the gastronomy segment, with customers located in over 50 countries around the world. These new collections aim to provide professionals in this industry with an efficient experience of performance and aesthetics at the highest level.

tions. To that end, we formed Z-Ventilation Solutions (ZVS) in 2016 and we are excited to see the continued development of that business. Our partnership with AMPCO is another milestone, and positions us to better serve the market,” said Mike McGuire, Managing Partner of Zink.

By coming together, both AMPCO and ZVS offer customers complete, customized solutions for all commercial kitchen ventilation needs. By combining their superior products and expert services, the team can effectively support customers from design to commissioning through ongoing operational support and service.

“We are very excited about this new partnership with Zink and the opportuni-

ty to leverage our industry expertise to offer customers best-in-class turnkey solutions,” said Mark Walraven, Vice President of Sales for AMPCO. “We look forward to a long and successful business relationship.”

AMPCO and ZVS are now a leading source for kitchen ventilation solutions.

The companies share a common goal: to leverage product and application expertise to maximize the value created for customers, and to exceed expectations. With a variety of installation services and customized solutions, together they are uniquely qualified to meet all customer ventilation needs, optimizing system performance while saving time and money.

ing the squeezed juice to the freshest level.

Thus, Zumex, leaders for some years in the incorporation of citrus fruit juicers on the shelves of supermarkets in Europe, America and Asia, continues with its commitment to the healthy current, with the new Speed S +Plus series models, prepared to offer the most efficient and safest service on the market, improving experience of use and offering greater speed and convenience for consumers of freshly squeezed juice.

The new Speed S +Plus commercial juicers are the most complete solution for self-service areas.

automatic juicers in their fruit and vegetable section increase: brand positioning reinforcement, healthy food concept; innovation, live experience; an increase in the average of purchase tickets – if selling freshly squeezed citrus juice adds more value for the customer, it adds more margin for the stores; an increase in proximity customers; and greater performance and optimization of perishable products. They also act as an engine to drive the consumption of other fresh products on the shelves.

We work together with the supermarkets to integrate our solutions, in agreement with their business needs and their internal operation to make them more profitable, and the results are amazing.

RDN: Are there certain things retailers should look for when purchasing equipment? How can they make sure they get the best returns on their investment?

CQ: Experience has shown us that chains that commit to the incorporation of our

quality walnuts, pecans and almonds in a batter rich in 80-proof bourbon, rum and brandy. Rings are available in 2-, 3- and 5-pound sizes, and Beatrice Bakery also offers a variety of bars from 3 ounces to 1 pound, perfect for gift bags or gift giving. Each cake is

For more information, visit booth #8618 or go to www.costa-nova.com.

For more information, go to www.ampco stacks.com and www.zinkfsg.com.

For more information, go to www.zumex.com, call 305.591.0061 or email zumexusa@zumex.com.

hand decorated for center of the table appeal.

For more information, call 800.223.2253, email customerservice@ beatricebakery.com or go to www .beatricebakery.com.

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Your Customers will Love this Level of First-Class Service Customer service is an important part of any business, especially when there is so much competition entering the market every day. How can you stand out? What can you do so your customers remember your business? Do they experience something remarkable enough to tell their friends about it?

Give your customers first class treatment with a pre-moistened, 100 percent cotton terry cloth refreshment towel before, or after, their meal. Served refreshingly chilled or soothingly warmed, your customer will remember

that touch of first-class service they received.

White Towel Services offers a full range of affordable pre-packaged, premoistened, single use, terry cloth towels sized from 8 inches by 8 inches up to 12 inches by 12 inches. Each towel comes scented with lemon or lavender essential oils for the ultimate in a luxury towel.

Also available in peach-mango and unscented.

White Towel Services also has a towel warmer for easy heating. Just add its pre-moistened towels at the beginning

Crema Smart: Intelligent Dairy That Doesn’t Skimp on Flavor

By Colby Scharsch, Lead Designer, JoeFroyo

Dairy innovation company JoeFroyo is on a mission to make dairy that is more thoughtful, more functional and more intelligent. With two functional lactosefree dairy beverages under its belt – Probiotic Cold Brew™ and Clean Label Creamer™ – the company is expanding its dairy philosophy into two other dairy staples with its new Crema Smart™ line: ice cream and powdered half & half.

Crema Smart Ice Cream I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream – but mostly about the calories.

And the sugar. And the fat. And, yes, the stomach aches afterward. But it’s ice cream, so we’re all willing to forgive a few (okay, a lot of) transgressions in the health and wellness department to get another scoop of the stuff.

Well, not all of us, as it turns out.

Zach Miller, Founder and President of JoeFroyo, wanted to find a way to add more functional benefits to ice cream, and to tone down the stomach acheinducing lactose. After developing a proprietary process for creating a lactose-free cultured dairy base, Miller saw an opportunity to make ice cream even more scream-worthy, and smarter.

Batter Up: Waring Commercial Enhances, Expands Waffle Maker Line Chicken and waffles. Waffle tacos.

Waffle sandwiches. And just good oldfashioned, fluffy waffles. Waring waffle makers easily add excitement to menus with a mix of trending and classic waffle dishes. Designed with heavy-duty diecast base and pillars, an easy-grip nylon handle, high-efficiency heating components, and other innovative features, they set the standard for waffle-making equipment.

Now, the company that pioneered the first waffle maker with a revolutionary rotary feature for even baking and browning, introduces its Waffle X Series with user-serviceable plates.

While Waring waffle makers are renowned for their durable, long-lasting design, 67 percent of the company’s waffle maker returns are due to scratched or damaged plates. As part of its commitment to providing the highest-quality products at the lowest possible price, Waring will equip all its current and future waffle makers with user-serviceable plates, effective Summer 2019. Replaceable plates will spare operators the expense of having to purchase a new unit and will extend the life of their existing one.

In addition, Waring has expanded its lineup with two new waffle makers.

Inspired by the No. 1 ranked most popu-

The Mighty Badge Experience Customer experience is vital to the success of your establishment in today’s market. Guests expect more than just a good meal. The experience includes the décor, welcoming staff and the presentation of the food. Every detail counts when ensuring the experience is social media ready, while genuinely expressing your brand.

A big part of the experience is creating a memorable connection through exceptional customer service, and this starts with knowing the name of the wait-

er or waitress. Creating a great name badge bridges this gap, because it acts as an ice breaker between your staff and their guests.

Create badges that ignite your brand through distinct fonts and colors.

Select fonts that are easily readable or highlight your server’s skills, such as the language they speak, right on the badge! You can even highlight your company’s branded hashtag or Instagram QR code right on the badge.

These details go a long way to ensure

of service and turn the warmer on. Your towels will be hot and ready all day. Each warmer has a 100 percent money back lifetime warranty, and are UL Listed.

Add Your Name and Logo to Each Package Your company has its own unique identity, from your signature products and services to the special relationships you’ve created with your customers.

Now it’s time for you to build your most precious asset – your good name – by creating your own prestige brand.

Design the towel packaging any way you wish. Convey your marketing The result is Crema Smart Ice Cream, a high-protein, lower calorie probiotic frozen treat that may be pintsized but packs a huge nutritional punch – and doesn’t skimp on flavor.

Launching at the 2019 National Restaurant Association Show, Crema Smart Ice Cream will debut a trio of classic flavors – chocolate, vanilla and cold brew latte – with additional flavors coming soon, including caramel macchiato, espresso chip, cookie dough, Moose Tracks® and more.

Crema Smart Powdered Half & Half Now, while people may not be screaming for it yet, Crema Smart lactose-free powdered half & half is perhaps even more exciting. JoeFroyo is the first company to

lar street snack in Hong Kong, the WBW300X Bubble Waffle Maker gives foodservice operators in the United States a quick and easy way to add bubble waffles to the menu. Crisp on the outside, warm on the inside, bubble waffles are a delicious delicacy when filled with ice cream. The plates on this innovative unit are custom-designed to produce the bubble pattern that makes the hot-and-coldcombo treat irresistibly unique.

To accommodate market demand, Waring has also introduced the WMB400X Mini Belgian Waffler.

Engineered to produce four deep-pocketed, mini Belgian waffles at a time, and up to 100 per hour, the unit features tripleyour brand is being represented consistently throughout all locations, while highlighting your staff’s unique personality.

The Mighty Badge is a reusable name badge that is kitted for ease of use, ordering and implementing into your business. Each kit contains components required to design and assemble a badge with only a computer and printer. With on-site production, all your staff members will be brand ready for when they first greet your guests.

message creatively and stand out from your competition. With first customer class service becoming a necessity for any successful business, White Towel Services is confident that its products will bring you higher sales and a loyal customer base.

White Towel Services, Inc. is the original source for hot and cold towel service.

Visit White Towel Services at booth #3878.

For more information, go to www .wtowel.com, email info@wtowel.com or call 817.868.7900.

powderize half & half – a feat which, frankly, the dairy establishment said couldn’t be achieved.

But not only has it created the world’s first powdered half & half, it’s also lactose-free, cutting down on the stomach aches, and probiotic, adding valuable health benefits from live and active cultures.

“It’s such a great on-the-go option,” says Miller. “Perfect to keep in your bag for rushed mornings or to take with you when you’re camping. We like to say this product lets you have the creamy coffee you love, on the countertop or on a mountaintop.”

Visit JoeFroyo at booth #10216. For more information, go to www.joe froyo.com or call 253.682.8586. coated, nonstick plates that make the release of perfectly proportioned waffles and cleanups easy. Ideal for a wide variety of toppings, including berries, syrup, ice cream or even fried chicken, mini Belgian waffles made with this exceptional waffle maker are sure to elevate

any menu.

“At Waring, we’re committed to continuous innovation in all our product lines,” says Waring General Manager, Dan DeBari. “We’re proud of our latest breakthroughs in the waffle maker category which will allow operators to capitalize on popular waffle trends.”

Visit Waring at booth #2616.

Having a badge that your employees are proud to wear, that highlights your social media presence and is consistent with your brand sustainability promise is key. Like plastic straws, ditch the one-time use badges and reduce your carbon footprint with reusable name badges.

For more information, visit booth #9932, go to www.imprintplus.com, call 800.563.2464 or email customerservice @imprintplus.com.

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Take Order Pick-Up from Awkward to Awesome With digital dining predicted to be a $300 billion opportunity by 2025, foodservice operators are scrambling to meet the demand and make the experience fast, fun and efficient for their operations.

So far, results have been mixed. While digital ordering is usually fast and simple, all bets are off when the customer comes in to pick up that order. Often, it’s an awkward dance in the entrance as they make their way past dine-in customers, bump into employees rushing to take togo orders to a pick-up shelf or counter, and maneuver past customer lines at the registers.

Meanwhile, restaurant staff are juggling orders for eat-in customers while

keeping an eye on all those takeout orders, making sure the right order goes to the right customer. All this inefficiency means orders take too long to pick up, and a convenient option becomes an inconvenient hassle. That’s the kind of aggravation and anxiety that can drive away customers who don’t have the time or patience to deal with it.

It’s this less-than-perfect scenario that inspired the development of 2019’s Kitchen Innovations Award recipient, the AXCESS 2000.H Pick-Up Station from Apex Supply Chain Technologies®. The industry’s first heated, self-serve order pick-up station was specifically designed to make the “last inch” handoff of digital

Behind Every Great Chef, There are Great Knives ZWILLING J.A. Henckels is the cutlery of choice for chefs across the globe. It equips professionals with 278 years of knife expertise – so that you can cook remarkably.

ZWILLING J.A. Henckels started as a small, family-owned German knife company, and has grown to include international heritage brands to bring its customers the best from across the globe.

Respected as an innovator in the industry, ZWILLING remains rooted in the foundation upon which it was built: a tradition of quality, craftsmanship and excellence forged nearly three centuries ago.

Proudly crafted in the City of Blades, Solingen, Germany, its knives continue to be the benchmark for premium cutlery.

Inspired by a passion for cooking, ZWILLING has perfected steel selection, blade sharpening, hardening processes and handle manufacturing. The result: remarkably durable, sharp and balanced knives to help you cut with confidence.

The company’s two centerpiece lines, ZWILLING® Pro and ****FOUR STAR, are used in top professional kitchens worldwide. These high-performance knives are known as the “chef’s best friends.”

Award-Winning Flameless Catering Product Makes Serving Hot Food Safer, Simpler & Faster An interview with David Amirault, Vice President of Marketing, Sterno Products.

RDN: Tell our readers about SpeedHeat®.

DA: SpeedHeat is a flameless, wateractivated system that produces high-heat steam, with zero ramp-up time. It is considered by many in the catering industry to be the most innovative portable heat system since the introduction of Sterno chafing fuel more than a century ago.

We spent time in the field with high volume caterers of all types, including social, corporate, chain restaurants and food management companies, testing prototypes and refining the design to get to the best possible flameless, food warming and serving product. Our num-

ber one takeaway was that our customers wanted a buffet-style flameless food serving option that was quick and easy to set up and made the whole process safer, simpler and faster.

RDN: What was catalyst for the development of this product?

DA: A product like this has been top-ofmind in the catering industry for years.

Up till now, the challenge for caterers has always been how to keep hot food at an ideal serving temperature in an environment or location that isn’t necessarily designed for serving food, or in places that have open-flame restrictions.

RDN: Is Sterno getting out of the

Pacific Gold Reserve Line Grows Oberto Brands has added Jerky Trail Mix, Smoked Sausage Sticks and Cracked Peppercorn Turkey Jerky to its Pacific Gold Reserve gourmet craft meat snacks brand. Pacific Gold Reserve’s Jerky Trail Mix (suggested

retail price: $2.99) is made with grass fed, tender jerky and a premium blend of fruits, nuts and fair trade certified dark chocolate and seeds. The trail mix comes in three gourmet flavors, including: Cracked Peppercorn Turkey

orders more convenient for customers – and more efficient for employees.

The lockers feature a smart, two-sided design, meant to be strategically located so that employees can load orders from the back, while customers pick up in front. More importantly, it’s a fast, self-serve experience for busy people who don’t have time to wait in line.

The real genius of the order pickup station is that it continues the fast, efficient experience that begins with the digital order process. Once an employee places the order in the compartment for pick-up, the customer receives a text or email with a unique code. Then they can skip the line and go straight to the pick-up station, You can’t top the durability of ZWILLING’s special formula German stainless steel, a recipe that ZWILLING has been honing since 1731. Precisionforged from a single piece of steel, these SIGMAFORGE® knives have an exceptionally sturdy, balanced and flexible blade.

Thanks to ZWILLING’s signature ice-hardening technique, the FRIODUR® blades start sharper, stay sharper longer and have superior resilience. Along with their compound bevel that enhances strength, these incredibly precise knives stand up to the demands of busy restaurants. Each knife is honed and hand-finished by the most skilled artisans. Their ‘canned heat’ business?

DA: Our legacy line of portable warming products is Sterno’s foundation. We will continue to develop and innovate in this arena.

With SpeedHeat, however, we are able to offer our customers a product that allows them to serve high-margin, hot menu items in venues and/or at occasions where up-to-this-point it was just not possible or practical. For example, at a historic landmark with an openflame restriction, or for a quick-serve corporate catering lunch with a 20minute service window.

RDN: How does the the SpeedHeat system work?

DA: With a simple process that involves two water-activated heat packets and an included base and tray that replaces the traditional water chafing pan, SpeedHeat has zero ramp-up time and starts producing high-heat steam right away to keep

Jerky with Dark Chocolate and Expresso Beans, Bourbon Glazed Beef Jerky with Cherries and Walnuts and Korean BBQ Recipe Pork Jerky with Mango

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where they scan or enter their code. The secure compartment holding their order opens, they grab their order and are on their way in seconds.

Just as importantly, the AXCESS 2000.H also makes order pickup less disruptive and more efficient for restaurant operations.

The flow-through design makes it easy for associates to load orders from the back, and they don’t get in the way of customers picking up at the front.

The AXCESS 2000.H is ideal for a variety of hot foods, including chicken and ribs, as well as prepared meals.

For more information, go to www .apexsupplychain.com/foodservice, email info@apexsupplychain.com or visit booth #5670. ergonomic handles promote fatigue free cutting even after long days on the line.

Why not come feel how good they grip firsthand? You can find ZWILLING at booth #5638, where its team of experts will be available to show you the many knife features up close. Both lines are available in 40 different blade shapes and an array of different kits, so you can pick and choose the knives that best suit you and your kitchen.

Be the best chef you can be with ZWILLING J.A. Henckels.

For more information, go to www. zwilling.com or visit booth #5638. food at the ideal temperature for the ideal length of time.

RDN: Is SpeedHeat a ‘single-use’ product?

DA: There are two versions of SpeedHeat. Our Recyclable line is designed for use with disposable aluminum half pans, and can be used up to three times. There are eight complete units to a case. Refill SpeedHeat packets are sold separately. The SpeedHeat base and tray are fully recyclable; the spent heat packets go into everyday trash. The Reusable line, SpeedHeat HD features a durable, universal base and accepts 1/3, 1/2 and full food pan sizes (disposable or durable), and will provide the same durability you’d expect from a traditional chafer. Refill SpeedHeat packets are sold separately.

Visit Sterno Products at booth #6912.

For more information, go to www.sterno pro.com or call 951.682.9600. and Papaya. All three are made with no artificial ingredients, nitrates, MSG or corn syrup. It retails for $2.99.

For more information, call 877.453.7591 or go to www.oberto.com.

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Wilpack Packaging Provides Cost-Effective Products Wilpack Packaging is a division of AAmerican Companies, which was founded in 1986. Wilpack is a full-service packaging supplier and equipment manufacturer. The company helps customers choose the correct packaging materials and equipment to fit their needs. Its main customers are kitchens, restaurants, startups and large contract packaging facilities. Wilpack’s packaging materials include a full line of polypropylene cups with tamper-evident seals. Its diverse line of equipment ranges from manual tabletop sealing equipment through production-ready Rotary Fill and Seal machines with individual capabilities of up to 80

cups per minute each. Its turnkey solutions also include conveyors and vacuum pack off devices.

Wilpack Packaging began by manufacturing high-speed contract packaging equipment. Through years of experience, it became apparent that there was a need for sealing equipment that would allow start-up and point-of-service facilities to provide those same quality, safe packaging solutions to their customers.

Wilpack’s solution allows entrepreneurs to start using the correct packaging supplies that then transition to a fully automated process once the product line grows. This inspired the company to cre-

Collections from RAK Porcelain RAK Porcelain acts as a partner to leaders in all hospitality categories in search of excellence with those that are convinced that tableware adds value to their table and to their guest experience.

Using cutting-edge technology, RAK Porcelain’s collections are designed to withstand intensive use as well as mechanical and thermal shocks inherent in the profession. By selecting raw materials of the highest quality, its products stand up over time to the heat of traditional or microwave ovens, while retaining the brilliance of their enamel and the fineness of their decorations.

Linked to a solid worldwide distribution structure, RAK Porcelain relies on a network of experts and operators specializing in tableware to serve you wherever and whenever you desire. RAK Porcelain USA organizes and manages the distribution for the North American

market from its headquarters in New York City and logistic facility in Weirton, West Virginia. RAK Porcelain’s other major logistic centers are located in Europe and the United Arab Emirates.

Ivoris Collection Ivoris porcelain sets the table in warm white. With a shade close to ivory, this porcelain provides ultimate resistance against the inevitable knocks in the kitchen or dining room, and to chemical aggression due to maintenance and contact with food products.

This spring highlight will be “Suggestions” designed by Gemma Bernal.

This extensive series (114 items) is not just about shapes; it helps chefs to express and create by fusing shapes with gastronomic ideas in each piece. The range proposes presentation and service

US INC Offers Complete Line of Stainless Steel Products US INC now has a complete line of stainless steel products. These products include compartment, bar, hand sinks, dish tables, worktable, ice bins, shelving, equipment stands, pot racks, dunnage racks and much more. It has added a complete line of stainless steel products at the request of its distributors.

US INC has been perfecting its equipment and developing its designs for the past several years. It does not release

a new product without a thorough testing period to assure its equipment will compete against any manufacturer in the industry.

Pan Racks US INC has added bun pan, meat and pastry racks to its product line. These are available in aluminum or stainless steel – stronger and more durable than others. These are z-style stacking racks in 12, 15, 20 and 30 sheet pan models.

Jasberry Rice Jasberry® rice is a special variety of rice that was developed over a decade through natural cross-breeding. Organic and non-GMO, Jasberry rice is dark purple in color. Jasberry rice has 40 times more antioxidants than brown rice, seven times more antioxidants than kale and three times more antioxidants than red quinoa. Jasberry rice’s amazing antioxidant content makes it the world’s newest superfood.

ate a tabletop tamper-evident sealing line of equipment. Its patented, UL and NSF certified equipment allows any company the opportunity to grow their product line with branding in safe, spill-proof packaging.

Wilpack is able to offer solutions to organizations that are ready to take products to market but perhaps do not have the same expertise in packaging those products that Wilpack has been refining and expanding. The company prides itself on its quality service and exceptional customer support.

The team at Wilpack is proud to provide its innovative, tamper-evident sealing solutions and to provide customer safety and satisfaction to its customers.

Wilpack knows what it takes to be above the crowd and be seen. Wilpack works innovative solutions for each moment of the dinners.

Epic Collection With Epic, a high-end tableware collection, RAK Porcelain offers a completely new product segment to customers looking for extravagant and exquisite dinnerware.

Epic features incredible product ranges designed by some of the most talented designers in the industry. RAK Porcelain presents Epic during the NRA show, showcasing four exceptional series: Sensation, Hide, Sketches and Roks.

Fusion Collection Welcome to an era in which inspiration has no borders, where chefs blend East with West, traditional and avant-garde recipes. RAK Porcelain presents its Fusion collection – a declaration of love to the creativity of chefs everywhere.

The 12-pan model is for meats and is only available from US in a zstyle.

Wire Shelving US INC has just completed its design and development of heavy duty commercial grade wire shelving. The company offers many different sizes in both a chrome and epoxy finish.

Cooking Equipment Products This includes fryers, griddles, grills, char broilers and proofers. These products were introduced late in 2017.

with foodservice providers, educational facilities and contract packagers.

By always improving equipment and determining the best methods of delivering a finished product to market at the most economical and reliable ways possible, Wilpack is the best choice for those seeking positive and cost-effective methods for all levels of packaging product.

Wilpack takes enormous pride in its ability to protect each of its customers’ special products by providing the best materials and packaging.

Visit Wilpack at booth #10438. For more information, go to www.wilpack packaging.com or call 815.490.9235.

Fusion is a collection that regroups all its porcelain reminiscent of sandstone, earthenware, slate, wood or minerals.

The 2019 novelties are Fire, Trinidad, Kintzoo and Wild.

Polaris Collection RAK Porcelain combines the finest raw materials with the expertise of the Research and Development department to make porcelain that is gleaming white.

Every crucial detail has been taken into account in the production of this new material in order to comply with constraints relating to use in the hospitality industry, with high levels of alumina oxides that give strength of a superior quality. As a novelty for the Polaris Collection, RAK Porcelain presents three banqueting series: Helm, Charm and Soul.

Visit RAK Porcelain at booth #6237.

LCD Glass Door Display Reach-Ins The LCD glass door reach-in offers a translucent LCD video screen integrated in the door for advertising your merchandise.

US INC is seeking a few new distributors to represent this new line of equipment.

Please contact the company’s National Sales office at 888.556.2112 for more details.

For more information, go to www.usincorporated.com, call 888.556.2112 or email jchronister@us-incorporated.com.

Minerva Dairy Butter Furthermore, Jasberry rice has been recognized with several international awards for its social impact as it supports over 2,500 small-scale organic farmers in rural Thailand to help them grow their way out of poverty.

For more information, call 414.412.5670 or go to www.jasberry.net.

As Minerva Dairy nears its 125th anniversary, the company is relaunching the brand with a new look and new packaging for its 85 percent butterfat butter.

Slow churned in small batches for a creamier, richer and more flavorful butter, all Minerva Dairy butter is made from milk from pasture-raised cows on family farms, and there’s nothing artificial in it.

While the packaging has a new look,

the butter is still the same as it’s always been. As America’s oldest family-owned creamery, five generations of butter experts have ensured the quality of the product, with the sixth generation beginning to learn the ropes.

For more information, call 330.868.4196 ext 119 or go to www.minervadairy.com.

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Royal Industries Promotes Partnerships Royal Industries, Inc., an innovative leader in the foodservice industry, founded over 75 years ago and located in Chicago, Illinois, serves a nationwide market both as furniture manufacturers and as direct importers of commercial foodservice smallware, s/s worktables and hand sinks, janitorial, baking and pizza products for the restaurant, hospitality, janitorial, mass feeding and institutional industries.

The company works with authorized dealers and resellers rather than offering products to end users. This partnership modality makes the company unique and very successful. It continues to redefine the role of vendor in order to better sup-

port authorized dealer partners within their unique programs and their various marketing service opportunities.

Stavros Moraitis, Vice President of Sales and Marketing, notes that the company’s consistency in being seen as a staple in the E&S industry is an accomplishment that brings tremendous pride. Its innovative partnership program is unique to the industry. Being a true value-added partner to customers is a major facet of the company. Moraitis emphasizes that companies need to be able to resolve daily problems quickly. Being partners allows this to be more effectively accomplished.

This year, the company is focusing

Panasonic NE-3280 Commercial Microwave Sonic Steamer Oven As the nutritional benefits of steaming are becoming more widely known, the Sonic Steamer has become a popular choice in an ever-growing list of channels, from educational institutions, to full-service restaurants and stadiums.

Designed for high-efficiency steaming in foodservice businesses big and small, the Panasonic NE-3280 Commercial Microwave Sonic Steamer Oven combines high-volume cooking capability with every kitchen’s need for speed.

High-Power Cooking Reliably quick, efficient and economical to operate, Panasonic’s 3200 Watt Sonic Steamer Oven uses the power of microwave energy to heat the water content in vegetables, fish and seafood, meats, breads and other foods to the boiling point to produce steam, and preserve

the natural flavors and nutrients customers want and expect in their meals.

Fast and Faster Panasonic’s innovative top and bottom energy feed design uses four separate magnetron heating elements to fuel the Sonic Steamer’s incredible cooking speed and its even-heating abilities.

The Panasonic Sonic Steamer Oven is one of few in its category that can comfortably handle two full-size, 4-inch deep steam table pans with covers, four halfpans or four 12-inch plates, at the same time.

The Result?

Hot, fresh lasagna in under 20 minutes; a 1-1/4 pound lobster in under 2 minutes (55 in an hour); a pound of shrimp in a minute (60 pounds in an hour) and faster steamed vegetables like a pound of

Simple, Elegant Solutions from Unox There is no room for error in professional foodservice. Unox knows this, and provides ovens and services that are designed to meet the most ambitious quality and business challenges.

Unox’s 25-plus years of research lead to cooking solutions that excel in all areas and guarantee the repeatability of the desired result for any load conditions.

Unox provides simple and elegant solutions to the complex problems of the professional foodservice industry, along

with intuitive and reliable technology that has become the benchmark for industry operators.

Present in 110 countries and number one producer for the number of professional ovens sold worldwide each year, Unox operates in the restaurant, patisserie and bakery sectors, and every day it serves professionals throughout the world.

Unox exhibits excellence in just two words: improve and simplify. It is an excellence you recognize at a glance,

CDN Offers Full Range of Kitchen Scales CDN is now celebrating its 35th anniversary as a global category leader in kitchen measurement tools, known for quality and innovation. CDN presents a broad range of scales for foodservice kitchens, from the basic to the unique, including many CDN exclusive options to serve different needs.

A stand-out scale with simplicity and value, the CDN NSF-certified Digital Glass Scale (SD1502) features tare function and sturdy tempered glass platform.

With a 15-pound capacity, it has an easy-

to-read backlit display, showing results in pounds:ounces and grams.

Portion control is vital to the profitability of any foodservice establishment. CDN offers its exclusive NSF-certified Digital Portion Control Scales in six capacities and profiles: 5 pounds (SD0502), 11 pounds (SD1114), 11 pounds (SD1112), 22 pounds (SD2202), 33 pounds (SD3302) and 55 pounds (SD5502). Part of CDN’s Master Scales Series, these scales offer convenience features such as tare func-

on providing new services such as marketing support, new drop ship programs, and bid and quote support. All of these will allow its dealers (partners) to be more time-effective and concentrate on growing sales. The company also offers flyer and promotional materials – anything partners need to sell or market their company or individual brands. The company is focused on quality, not only in its furniture but also in its ability to provide sales collateral materials to partners to help them brand their companies while selling Royal Industries products.

The foodservice industry consists of three categories: Good, Better, Best. asparagus in 40 seconds (100 pounds per hour); a pound of potatoes in just two minutes (30 pounds per hour); a pound of meatballs in 90 seconds (30 pounds per hour); and a dozen hot dogs in 30 seconds (104 dozen in an hour).

No Hassle Setup and Energy Efficient Unlike traditional steamers, the microwave Panasonic NE-3280 doesn’t require extra filters, a vent hood or the plumbing hassle and expense of a dedicated water line (eliminating both deliming and having to replace gaskets).

There’s no recovery time and less load is placed on air conditioning and refrigeration systems so they help an operation’s overall energy efficiency.

A Touch of Simplicity The NE-3280 Commercial Microwave Sonic Steamer Oven keeps things moving with features like eight programmable heating touch pads, five power levels and three cooking stages for timesaving,

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Royal Industries competes as a Better (or second category) company.

This means it offers better quality products at a good level – that is, its price is very competitive for a slightly better product.

If the needed product isn’t from the Royal Industries product line, the company will search and provide what is needed – even to the extent that if/when a competitor has what a Royal Industries’ dealer needs, the company will still source it for them because as Moraitis emphasizes, “we are partners, not vendors.”

For more information, go to www .royalindustriesinc.com or call 773.478.6300 ext. 2840.

two-touch operation. Just select a program, then start.

The eight touchpads can be customized for 16-memory capability, simple and ideal for preparing repetitive key items, as well as twoand three-stage cooking to Defrost for one stage, cook at High power for the second stage, then Low power for the last stage with the single touch of a pad. Manual singlestage heating sets the oven to desired times and power levels for menus that require variation in heating requirements.

Low Maintenance Ease With the Panasonic NE-3280 Sonic Steamer Oven, low, everyday maintenance consists of cleaning two removable air filters, and wiping down the oven’s removable center shelf and the stainless cabinet and cavity surfaces.

For more information, go to www .panasonic.com/cmo.

made up of the same ingredients that your clients insist on: uncompromised quality, innovative and bold choices, proved and measurable efficiency and reliability.

Investing in innovation for Unox means seeing everyday challenges in a whole new light: from giving value to every single gesture to the simplification of the entire production process. For you, this means maximum performance, freedom, ease of use and savings.

Making decisions without making mistakes is a big part of your work. Your job is to apply these decisions in the kitchen, first hand.

Every day you face new challenges, always raising the bar of excellence.

Unox is at your side, helping you to take on these challenges.

“Contributing to the quality, efficiency and simplification of our customers’ cooking processes” is the mission of Unox, with technology that is not an end in itself. It is an invention to serve simplification. Simplification that serves your business.

tion, data hold and field calibration for accuracy over time, as well as measure in pounds:ounces and kilograms:grams.

CDN’s NSF Submersible Scales provide a full range of advanced features, including a coveted IP67 rating that ensures protection against dust, particles and submersion in up to 3 feet of water for up to 30 minutes. Available in 11 pounds (SD1110X) and 22 pounds (SD2210X), these CDN exclusive scales are programmable and come with a tare function, field calibration, and low/high

limit alerts. They operate on a rechargeable battery, and also come with a power adapter for added convenience.

These scales measure in pounds, ounces, fluid ounces, kilograms and grams. CDN also offers 5 kg calibration weights as an optional accessory, plus replacement parts.

CDN measures up with a wide variety of thermometers, timers and scales.

For more information, go to www.cdn kitchen.com, email info@cdnkitchen.com or call 800.338.5594.

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Sharpen Grill Tools On the Go with FMP’s GrillSharp

By Kimberly Salesky, Editor, Franklin Machine Products

The temperature consistency of your grill heating surface is a crucial factor in food doneness. For best product results, your grill surface must heat food evenly. A common cause for improper heating temperatures is carbon build-up. Your grill spatula blade is your best bet for a quick, thorough carbon clean-up; however, dull grill tools don’t scrape up all the carbon

build-up on surfaces and result in inconsistently cooked product, plus more clean-up.

Sharpening your grill spatula blade regularly can help provide a better grill surface clean-up and carbon removal for more thorough heat distribution on your grill’s surface. The GrillSharp® Grill Tool Sharpener sharpens your grill spatula blades so you can effectively scrape carbon from your grill surfaces. It also sharpens pizza rockers and S blades. The

Glastender Celebrates 50th Anniversary Glastender, Inc., headquartered in Saginaw, Michigan, is celebrating its 50th year of providing creative bar solutions to the foodservice industry.

Founded in 1969 when Chief Executive Officer Jon D. Hall invented the world’s first automatic rotary glasswasher, Glastender has since grown to become a full-line bar equipment manufacturer with over 200 employees.

“I am really proud of what my father has accomplished,” stated Todd Hall, President of Glastender. “Many of my father’s designs were industry firsts and some of his ideas have gone on to become industry standards. When we see other manufacturers copying our ideas, that’s how we know the true impact we have had on the industry.”

No stranger to innovation, Jon invented the world’s first ice dispenser while working with his father, William Hall, as an ice machine distributor. Jon combined an ice machine with an auger system and obtained his first patent.

In 1969, when Jon invented the world’s first automatic glasswasher, he called it a “Glastender,” which later became the name for his new company focusing on bar equipment.

Jon released another industry first in 1970, when he combined one of his glasswashers with an ice bin and sink section to create the pass-through cocktail station. A pass-through cocktail station combines nearly all of the cocktail lifecycle steps into one station, but it also gets cocktail servers involved in drink

Lamber Dishwashers – The Economical Choice How do you choose the right ware washing system for your business?

Should it always be about price? What about electrical, water and detergent savings – isn’t that crucial to your bottom line? Perhaps you should consider functionality, quality, certifications and ease of use. With Lamber’s line of commercial ware washing systems, you don’t have to choose – Lamber has it all.

Lamber, with its head office and manufacturing plant in Lodivecchio,

Italy, was first established in 1948 by Mr. Raimondo Affaba, who began production and distribution of dairy washing equipment and gradually moved into the commercial and industrial side of the business a decade later. By 1976, after successfully stablishing Lamber as a leader in technology, innovation and design, Raimondo passed the business on to the five Affaba sons, who currently run all facets of the business to this day.

As the industry continued to grow,

BSI Celebrates 40 Years An interview with Wayne Sirmons, Marketing Director, BSI.

RDN: BSI is celebrating its 40-year anniversary this year. How has the company changed over the last four decades?

WS: Forty years ago, we started out as Brass Smith, making custom brass beds. That quickly evolved into custom fabrication for hospitality. We made everything from luggage carts to bar rails – and of course, we made our share of those big, brass sneeze guards. We saw the problems associated with those cumbersome, welded guards and introduced ZGuard to the market. That

changed everything. It’s still the industry standard for style, quality and adjustability.

RDN: What’s the secret to still being a market leader after all these years?

WS: We never stop innovating. Even though BSI is the industry standard, we still spend a lot of time and resources on developing new products or improving existing products. Our customers appreciate the fact that BSI will try to find solutions to problems that other companies won’t even attempt to address. Just as important as our great products, our customer service sets us apart.

GrillSharp is small enough for easy transport, so it’s readily available wherever and whenever you need to sharpen your grill tool blades. Best of all, it’s available at an affordable price.

You can also store the GrillSharp and your grill tools – as well as other essentials – in the Universal Griddle Rail, now available as a 24-inch wide option in addition to the 36-inch wide option. It fits most griddle manufacturers and models, is easy to install and is simple to remove for cleaning. Maximize your griddle

workspace by conveniently storing toppings and garnishes, squeeze bottles, shakers, breads and rolls and cooking utensils in this handy accessory item.

To learn more about the GrillSharp, Universal Griddle Rail or the other grill accessory items we offer, visit our website at www.fmp online.com. We’re proud to continue to serve you and help make your kitchen’s grilling procedures even easier.

which production, doubles a bartender’s output.

Not long after selling his first passthrough cocktail station, Jon developed a line of stainless steel underbar, which has since grown to become the largest and most flexible line of underbar equipment in the industry.

“My father tends to think outside the box,” stated Todd Hall. “Many of the features associated with our underbar were new to the market and have since been copied by others. For example, our simple, yet beautiful modular bar die design, which we released in 1990, has since gone on to become an industry standard.”

Not content with only stainless steel

fabrication, Glastender expanded into bar refrigeration in 1985 and has since increased its bar refrigeration offerings enough to become the largest and most flexible line of bar refrigeration in the industry as well.

Glastender’s last major foray into the bar equipment industry came in 1995 when it started manufacturing beer line chillers and providing complete remote draft beer systems. However, Glastender does not only produce bar equipment. It has many food service products, including wall-hung hand sinks, ice cream freezers, undercounter coolers, wall-mount coolers, a countertop merchandiser and a lettuce crisper, to name a few.

With its release of Modular Beverage Stations and a line of kitchen fabrication products, Glastender is poised for continued growth and success.

so too did Lamber.

Ensuring that its clients have the most up to date technology, certifications and sophistication, numerous Lamber products are and continue to be listed under the ISO Quality System Certificate standards, the Energy Star certification as well as UL and NSF guidelines. Most recently, Lamber introduced the ECO WASH system, lowering electricity consumption on some machines by up to 50 percent.

Currently, Lamber stocks and dis-

tributes more than 15 models of dish machines in North America – ranging from small glass washers to a vast array of under counter models extending to pass through and conveyor style units.

Whatever your needs require, Lamber has the machine for you.

Lamber remains a global leader in the ware washing industry and currently sells to over 40 countries worldwide. Lamber’s commercial line is imported and distributed in North America exclusively by Eurodib.

RDN: How does your customer service set you apart from other companies?

WS: BSI is known for quality food guards, but that’s just the beginning.

We have in-house stainless fabrication capabilities. We build everything from counters and custom sinks to work tables, floor troughs and custom cold pans. We build custom refrigeration and custom heated merchandisers. We have a state-of-the-art millwork shop that can build pretty much anything you can think of. We even have in-house countertop fabrication. We made our own oven so we can form and bend solid surface material to create stunning counters and carts.

We like to say, ‘From guard to ground, BSI builds it beautifully.’

WS: It feels like a cliché to say we have the best customer service, but we built our business on customer service. It’s what fuels our growth. Every few years, we commission independent market research to see how we stack up – and we invariably come out on top for quality, innovation and customer service. As we enter our 40th year, BSI has committed to up our customer service even more. I think customers are going to be impressed with our new levels of service.

RDN: Besides food guards, what other products does BSI offer?

For more information, go to www.fmp online.com, call 800.257.7737 or email sales@fmponline.com.

For more information, www.bsidesigns.com.

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Blendtec: The Man Behind the Machine Some people were born to do big things.

Blendtec Founder Tom Dickson is one of them. One Christmas morning when Tom was a young boy, the moving parts of his new toy crane captivated him and a seed of passion for engineering was planted.

As a young teenager, he spent his time tinkering with machines and working on his dirt bike. At 15, he snuck off to the drag strip (to his mother’s surprise).

Going sideways halfway down the track, he set a new California record (to his father’s delight).

A lifetime inventor, engineer and incurable tinkerer, Tom was innovating and improving long before Blendtec, but

then a newlywed Tom found himself with a wedding gift blender that broke shortly after he and his bride began using it. Its early demise awoke something in him.

Armed with his insatiable curiosity and passion for engineering, Tom set out on a mission to build a blender that could not only blend without breaking, but that also incorporated the latest technology.

Blendtec was born.

You could say Blendtec is crazy about blenders. Obsessed with innovation. And it’s been that way from the very beginning. Over the years, Blendtec has revolutionized the blend-

Franmara Offers Wine and Bar Accessories For almost 50 years, Franmara, Inc. has been a leader in high quality wine and bar accessories. It particularly specializes in wine and bar service in the foodservice industry with many of its products. All of its items are listed on AutoQuotes.

Seeking higher quality and greater diversity as well as keeping high quantities of inventory in stock are Franmara’s greatest challenges. In terms of wine accessories, Franmara Inc. has the largest line of wine accessories in the world.

With over 200 waiter’s-type corkscrews alone, including the Pulltap’s and Boomerang corkscrews, Franmara leads the way. Franmara’s own Capitano Waiter’s Corkscrew, for instance, is a favorite with waiters. It is very durable and has a long handle for good leverage, and is quite attractively priced. Many in-

room hotel refreshment facilities carry an imprinted version of this or the Pocket or Traveler’s. For room service or minibars, the plastic Pocket and Traveler’s corkscrews are imprintable and used by thousands of establishments worldwide.

Another foodservice favorite (and airline service favorite) is the Cedon bench mount uncorking machine. (It even has its own Boeing product number!)

Lustrum (1mm thick) cocktail shakers are a big foodservice favorite item, as well. Crumb scrapers, wine decanters, wine coolers, cheese accessories, openers, stoppers, pourers (recently expanded) and peppermills are also popular products. The Modularack Pro wine rack line fits a foodservice niche with 31 configurations for storing, or displaying, from 24 up to 408 wine bottles. Very

Egg & Bacon Pans from LloydPans LloydPans®, a U.S. manufacturer of both standard and custom pans, portion control tools and accessories for foodservice needs that span the globe, is introducing its Bacon & Egg Pan line.

Developed for Combi, Speed-Bake and Impinger ovens, Egg Pans are available in both irregular shaped and puck style cavities, and function as griddle replacements to provide an efficient method for serving both fried eggs and egg sandwiches. With four, six and nine cavity standard options from which to choose, dimensions range from 9.5 by 11 inches for a four cavity pan to 12.88 by 17.99 inches for nine cavities.

Innovative Bacon Pans take full

advantage of a highly versatile twopiece baking system that makes it possible for fats to drip through the perforated insert onto which the meat is placed, and into the shallow tray below. Beyond the impressive results they’re known for at major hotel chains where breakfast is served on a daily basis, these pans are also recommended and used for chicken wings, meatballs, ribs, sliders and more. The tray can be used as a stand-alone for bread products, too. Standard options include quarter sheet, half sheet and full sheet sizes, along with a 13-inch round tray and insert.

Egg and Bacon Pans are manufac-

RHEF-75 from Royal Range

By Paul Wilhite, Vice President Sales and Marketing, Royal Range of California

Royal Range has followed its award-winning RHEF-45 Fryer with the best performing 75-pound fryer in the industry.

The RHEF-75 boasts the industry’s highest efficiency of 72 percent, a mark no one thought was possible. Having the best efficiency is only part of the magic, but doing it with a “zero” recovery time is amazing. We did not set out to just be

as good as our competitors, we wanted to set a new standard. By having a fryer with the highest efficiency and zero recovery time, we can produce an eye popping 129 pounds per hour based on independent third party testing.

L. Vasan, the owner and head engineer at Royal, used his 30-plus years of experience designing high quality cooking equipment to create this beast.

“When designing a new piece of equipment, I start with looking at all the best

ing industry with countless innovations and industry firsts, such as lighted touch control interface, five-sided jar design, Stealth™ sound-dampening technology, and interactive SmartBlend™ technology. The list goes on.

Today, Blendtec machines are used in homes and businesses all over the world.

For foodies everywhere, food is more than just nourishment – it’s an art.

With food as their medium, they create new and exciting experiences to share with their friends, families and fellow food enthusiasts.

Blendtec blenders open up a world

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of possibilities for even the most discerning chef, challenging them to explore new tastes, ingredients and techniques in fresh and unique ways.

Blendtec is constantly introducing new products, improving existing designs and pioneering blending technology at a faster rate than ever. It knows the power of a Blendtec goes beyond just horsepower. By creating the most advanced blender in the world, Blendtec is not just changing an industry – it’s helping change lives.

For more information, go to www.blendtec.com/commercial or call 801.222.0888.

strong, Radiata Pine from Australia makes these easy-to-assemble units very special.

After 49 years in business, Franmara, Inc. has become a leader in wine and bar accessories. Since the late 1990s, the 80 million plus Baby Boomers have impacted wine consumption in a big way. As a result, this wine-drinking trend, and all the accessories that go with it, have been a good boost for the foodservice trade. Franmara keeps addressing this opportunity. Barware products have also greatly increased in sales.

Franmara sells only to the trade, with no direct sales to the public. The company ships from its own facility in Salinas, California, where it manufactures, assembles and imprints many of the products it sells. The company has many proprietary items, invented and patented

by Franmara. It continues to search the world to broaden its categories (as will be revealed in Franmara’s new catalog). Creating and manufacturing what’s not available anywhere else in the world has become a big challenge for Franmara.

Franmara, Inc. has outgrown its original plant and now also warehouses in nearby facilities. The company is proud and pleased that many of its employees have worked for Franmara for a decade or more. Franmara strives to provide its employees with the best environment it can for them. Franmara’s facility runs on 100 percent renewable solar energy.

tured from hard coat anodized heavy gauge aluminum and finished with LloydPans exclusive non-toxic and stick-resistant coating.

Unlike other non-stick coatings that wear off over time and with use, LloydPans proprietary finish is permanent and metal utensil safe. It won’t peel, flake, bake or chip off – ever. Because LloydPans is completely self-contained and controls every aspect of the manufacturing and finishing processes, it is often able to meet urgent needs with very little notice.

New and exciting remakes of the beloved breakfast sandwich are on the

rise. Fast food and c-store giants continue to capitalize on the trend with proven staying power by making them available at all hours of the day and night. LloydPans is fully equipped to keep pace with demand and meet heavier production needs with custom design options for virtually any type of oven. When stock sizes do not meet specific requirements, LloydPans can take a project from concept to completion in record time, and always welcomes those discussions.

products available and see what they do right and wrong. From there I use my lifelong experience to figure out how to make it better,” says L. Vasan.

The RHEF-75 uses a specially designed baffle system to achieve its outstanding results.

By using four 33,000 btu in-shot burners, Royal can achieve even heating through the fryer from top to bottom without the massive thermal stress issues competitors face. Our competitors bring in all the heat at one point, creating uneven heating in the tank

For more information, go to www .franmara.com, call 800.423.5855 for the latest catalog or email the company at info@franmara.com.

For more information, go to www.lloyd pans.com, email sales@lloydpans.com or call 800.748.6251.

and huge thermal stress on the fryer baffle system. The RHEF also has a built-in heat retention system, which allows for superior energy efficiency.

The fryers are available with three temperature control options, eight product solid-state computer controls and two product solidstate and electromechanical controls.

For more information, go to www.royal ranges.com, call 951.360.1600 or email paul@royalranges.com.

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Pitco’s Integrated Oil Management System There are three distinct features to Pitco’s Integrated Oil Management System: ROV Fryers with Auto Filtration, the SOS Smart Oil Sensor and the Infinity Touch 7-inch touchscreen controller.

Reduced Oil Volume (ROV) fryer models not only are built with the Solstice Supreme burner technology that is unmatched in today’s market, these models are designed with a more shallow fry area reducing the “cold zone.” This allows the fryer to achieve the same production with 30 percent less oil. ROV fryers also feature an auto filtration function which will drain, filter and refill fill the tank without the need for any staff member to come into contact with the hot

oil. Not only that, but ROV Fryers have a built-in sensor to monitor oil levels and can trigger an Auto Top-Off function that ensures the correct amount of oil is in the fryers at all time.

The SOS Smart Oil sensor is the most accurate oil sensor technology available today and is a key component of the Integrated Oil Management System (IOMS). The SOS sensor provides a numerical readout of the compounds in oil that increase as the oil breaks down. You will know for certain when oil is past its useful life, or more importantly, when it is not. The SOS Smart Oil Sensor saves on oil costs and ensures food quality. The SOS could not

Food For Life Baking Co. Offers Sprouted Grain Breads Food For Life Baking Co.®, makers of the incredibly delicious and nutritious Ezekiel 4:9® Sprouted Grain Bread, has been committed to the health of its customers since its inception over 50 years ago.

Among the many natural sprouted grain breads are its widely popular Ezekiel 4:9 and Genesis 1:29® breads, English muffins, tortillas, buns, cereal, pitas and pasta. Sprouting maximizes digestibility and nutrition while lowering the glycemic index in the company’s flourless bakery products.

Beyond the commitment to superior nutrition, there’s also a commitment to a balanced and protected pH in every loaf.

Why is a balanced pH so important?

Because Food For Life recognizes that a balanced pH is absolutely essential for optimum health. This is why Food For

Life meticulously chooses its ingredients, and refuses to use acidifying agents such as cultured wheat starch, vinegar, calcium propionate and ascorbic acid – all preservatives.

As an amazing benefit of sprouting, grains actually become more alkaline as water and oxygen support the growth of the new plant and naturally balances the pH. While a balanced pH is great for health reasons – helping protect against disease and illness – a higher pH does tend to shorten shelf life. This is why the company primarily sells Food For Life breads frozen.

Because of the popularity of its Ezekiel breads, the company is seeing more competitors now releasing sprouted grain breads, though they are using acidifying agents like vinegar and cultured wheat starch to extend

Data Driven Cooking from Unox Unox MIND.Maps™ ovens are the highest performing tools inside your professional kitchen: they allow you to achieve the highest level of cooking and baking results, and at the same time, they provide real savings in terms of time, energy and labor. Thanks to this innovative technologies, impeccable results are always guaranteed without any need for supervision. Unox technologies have always maximized your return on investment.

For this reason, Unox has applied industry leading 4.0 innovations to its top of

the line combi ovens: the CHEFTOP MIND.Maps. Unox calls it Data Driven Cooking.

Ovens are connected to the internet with Data Driven Cooking (DDC), an artificial intelligence cloud-based technology. It enables ovens to collect data, process information, analyze usage and make useful and personalized suggestions, like new recipes or custom-made cooking and baking processes, which translate directly into new dishes for your menu. DDC also monitors energy con-

Tucs Introduces New EconoChill Cook-Chill System for Existing Kitchens Many foodservice operators understand the benefits a cook-chill workflow provides. Food is kettle cooked to the peak of doneness, pasteurized, then quickly sealed in 5-mil cook-chill pouches.

Subsequent rapid chilling to 40 degrees Fahrenheit in approximately one hour (product dependent) and storage at 34 degrees Fahrenheit within 48 hours an yield a shelf life of 30 days without deterioration in color, texture or nutrient

value.

But what if a new kitchen isn’t in the budget? Or perhaps an organization is interested in testing prior to committing large amounts of time, resources and money. What then?

The new EconoChill Cook-Chill Starter System from Tucs uses an operator’s existing kettles coupled with a volumetric pump-fill station to safely, precisely and gently transfer product from

be easier to use. Built into the filtration system, a reading is taken every time the oil is filtered.

Pitco’s Controlling IOMS is the Infinity Touch.

The 7-inch touchscreen controller features a user friendly and easy to understand program to complete all communications about the fryer. A single touch activates the filtration process from start to finish. The Infinity Touch will data log fryer usage and operator activity, such as number of cook cycles and filtrations per day. It even stores a history of SOS oil quality readings. This is the data you need to manage your oil dollars.

All of these features working togeth-

er are what make Pitco’s Integrated Oil Management System the most effective frying solution on the market. The fryer tank and functionality design of the ROV fryer using Pitco’s Solstice Supreme burner technology, paired with the state-ofthe-art Infinity Touch controller and the SOS Smart Oil Sensor are redefining oil management. Pitco’s Integrated Oil Management System saves labor cost and improves staff safety in the kitchen and also allows operators to reduce oil use, extend oil life and improve food quality.

shelf life. their Unfortunately, these ingredients lower the pH, by increasing the acidity which Food For Life feels often defeats the purpose of sprouting in the first place. To be a truly healthful product, Food For Life strongly believes in protecting the pH level of its sprouted grain bread, targeting a balanced pH. Because of its commitment to health, you can be assured that Ezekiel 4:9 Bread is the pinnacle of nutrition.

Sprouted to maximize nutrition and digestibility! By adding pure filtered water to certified organic grains, legumes and seeds, Food For Life is able to maximize nutrition and digestibility. Enzymes like amylase and protease are released naturally, helping to break down carbohydrates and protein, making them easier to digest while maximizing nutrition and lowering the glycemic index.

Baked to perfection! Food For Life’s

slow baking technique means that every sprouted grain loaf is baked at lower temperatures to help preserve important natural vitamins and minerals and never “flash browned,” which can often trap active yeast.

Loaded with both types of fiber – soluble and insoluble. Food For Life Ezekiel 4:9 Bread is loaded with both important natural soluble and insoluble fiber to help your body function at its peak.

Aren’t all breads just carbs?

Amazingly, Food For Life Ezekiel 4:9 breads often contain just as much protein as the stuff you put on your sandwich, from all plant-based sources.

Ezekiel 4:9 Bread, made with 100 percent organic ingredients. Your body and taste buds will know the difference.

Check with your foodservice distributor for lower cost restaurant pack options.

sumption, water consumption, cooking times, door open time and monitors cleaning activities.

This information is transformed into concrete, measurable, useful and practical information in order to help you eliminate any kind of waste and increase your daily profit.

With Data Driven Cooking, Unox MIND.Maps ovens become much more than just basic commercial kitchen equipment: they become a real partner who will help you build your success.

Your oven linked to the Unox

internet cloud sends data to permit starting the Data Driven Cooking service.

These are then processed by means of AI, artificial intelligence to identify and present you with recipes and personalized suggestions tailored to your specific needs, which you can immediately translate into new dishes for your menu. The results are tangible; after three months from the start of the DDC.AI service, average use of the oven increases by 25 percent and maximizes your return on your investment.

the kettle(s) to preformed, high-barrier pouches.

From there the pouches are sealed using a portable, foot-operated impulse heat sealer. The sealer creates lay-flat pouches that cool quicker and are easier to store. Next stop: The Tucs Liquid Immersion Batch Chiller.

The batch chiller is maintained at 33 degrees Fahrenheit to provide fast, gentle cooling. Integral evaporator coils directly coupled to the refrigeration eliminate the need for costly, bulky ice-builder or gly-

col systems. The chiller system is so efficient it only requires 7HP of refrigeration and can oftentimes be tied into an existing system. A separate refrigeration unit is available for customers that require a dedicated machine.

Once chilled, product can be stored or transported to remote locations.

Product can be rethermalized in the pouches, thereby eliminating any potential for contamination between cooking and service.

Visit Pitco at Middleby booth #4200. For more information, go to www.pitco.com, call 603.225.6684 or email orderpitco@ pitco.com.

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Seviroli Foods: Chef-Inspired Pastas and Sauces An interview with Joseph Seviroli, Jr., Chief Executive Officer, Seviroli Foods.

RDN: Seviroli Foods is a family owned and operated company. Tell our readers how the company started.

JS: We started as a small pastry shop in Queens, New York, in 1960. Making pasta, especially tortellini, was my father’s passion. He purchased equipment from Italy so he could start making pasta at our bakery, and that’s really

where and how it all started. Today, Seviroli Foods is the world’s largest frozen tortellini manufacturer.

RDN: What items does Seviroli Foods offer today?

JS: Seviroli offers a large portfolio of products, including tortellini, ravioli, manicotti, stuffed shells, cavatelli, readyto-eat meal kits, sauces and more. We also offer an extensive variety of fillings, shapes and styles to match the specific

Renau Introduces New Generation of ARM Cortex-Powered Process Controllers Renau’s new T-2000 Series of next-generation ARM Cortex-A7 based P-CAP touchscreen process controllers and timers designed specifically with the foodservice industry in mind give foodservice equipment operators complete control over their commercial foodservice equipment. Unlike older capacitive touch solutions, these state-of-the-art capacitive touchscreens can easily be used while wearing gloves.

Available in 4.3-, 6.8- and 10-inch screen sizes, the T-2000 Series offers foodservice operators a sophisticated display interface that can be configured as a process control or freshness timer and installed virtually anywhere. Measuring

less than 1.91 inches deep, the T-2000 Series is compact and versatile enough to allow equipment manufacturers to mount it on a panel or even separately on a wall or fixture. Using Renau’s wireless Renau.Net Network, the T-2000 Series can wirelessly connect to Renau’s wireless battery powered sensors or remote actuation modules to monitor and control even the most intensive and demanding applications, while significantly reducing labor costs.

With the ability to quickly and easily access and select programs and recipes, as well as full support for safety and compliance processes such as HACCP, user manuals, job aids and ingredient level and freshness monitoring, the T-2000 Series is

Keep Your Customers Cool and Your Profits Hot For many regions, the beautiful blooms of spring also serve as notice that hot summer months are on the horizon. Yes, during the summer people venture out, plan vacations and depending on your region, the economy is bustling from tourism. The rise in temperature, sunny weather and happy activity can have a significant impact on restaurants who naturally benefit from the increase in people traffic. However, if you happen to be in a hot and humid environment, you’re faced with a host of additional challenges: limited indoor seating, increased wait times, unhappy customers

and empty patio seating. Most of the year, customers dining al fresco is a great way to ease the pressure in the main dining room and increase daily profits, but in the hottest, most humid part of summer, everyone wants to sit in cool air conditioning. Normally this meant a sparse outdoor crowd until dusk but that no longer has to be the case. Thankfully, science and technology have a solution for those hot summer days.

Misting tents and fans are nothing new, but soggy food does not seem to have caught on as a huge seller in restaurants. There is certainly a place for mist-

Soft Coffee Pods: Leading Single Cup Alternative Over the last few years, single-cup coffee makers have gone mainstream and become a staple in offices and restaurants across the country. These popular machines use specially made capsules with pre-measured levels of coffee grounds in order to brew anywhere from a single cup to a whole carafe of fresh coffee. However, these capsules aren’t without drawbacks, and many sophisticated coffee drinkers are choosing new, soft coffee pods over traditional plastic capsules.

Soft pods are sweeping the nation because they incorporate traditional brew methods in their brewing process.

Instead of harming the environment, the waste produced makes the world better.

Soft coffee pods require a brew mech that is specially molded to secure the pod during extraction, like Newco’s CX Touch or Fresh Cup Touch. Soft coffee pods are designed to make one cup at a time, but are made with far fewer materials. Instead of a hard plastic shell, most

needs of our customers.

RDN: Tell our readers about your manufacturing process.

JS: We have two state-of-the art SQF certified manufacturing facilities. Each houses authentic, Italian-made pasta equipment. We source only the highest grades of ingredients from a global base of suppliers, while maintaining stringent standards for all of the ingredients we select, such as 100 percent hard durum semolina, eggs, hard cheeses and whole milk ricotta. Great ingredients, quality control and food safety are of utmost importance to us.

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RDN: Are you introducing any new items?

JS: Always! Our R&D department, which consists of a full team of culinary-trained chefs, is hard at work developing a variety of ready-to-eat meal kits. We’re also expanding our pasta line to include items such as Burrata Cheese Ravioli, Sausage & Broccoli Ravioli, Shrimp & Roasted Garlic Ravioli and Crepe Manicotti, just to name a few.

Visit Seviroli Foods at booth #5645. For more information, go to www.seviroli.com, call 516.222.6220 or email customer service@seviroli.com.

a labor saving tool unlike any other. Foodservice operators can quickly and easily read the T-2000 Series’ highresolution color display from across the kitchen, and because the screen is the interface, use is incredibly intuitive, easy and designed to help reduce both operator error and food waste.

Easily upgradeable and fully reprogrammable, the T-2000 Series allows recipe menus and system configurations to be quickly updated through the integrated USB port, sub-GHz wireless transceiver or optional Wi-Fi adapter when paired with smart devices or cloud-based programming software. This allows for the creation of custom recipe menus, animated job aids, warning alarms, sound files and system configurations that can be stored on an authorized user’s hard drive

for future use and reference, or for larger organizations, shared with a remote location using Renau’s powerful Smart Kitchen Manager™ (SKM™) Software Servers. When it comes time to update the system, the desired update file can be downloaded via a flash drive or over the air.

In order to perform in the most demanding foodservice industry environments, all Renau products are fully encapsulated for outstanding protection from extreme temperatures, humidity and shock. Designed and manufactured in the United States, all Renau products are rigorously tested and come with an industry-leading three-year warranty.

ing tents and fans; poolside cabanas, beach patio bars and anywhere where the expectation of getting wet is acceptable. What do you do if your outdoor dining experience doesn’t fit into any one of those categories? You turn to TurboCool™. Developed by Al Erturk, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of ANIKs Outdoor Comfort Solutions, TurboCool is a patented solution guaranteed to keep you dry, while lowering the ambient temperature by 10 to 15 degrees in humid environments and as much as 30 degrees in arid environments.

“Simply put, TurboCool is unlike anything you have ever seen,” says Al

Erturk. “You can be three feet away from one of our patented TurboCool ports and you just don’t get wet.” TurboCool is manufactured in the United States and uses a combination of patented technologies to ensure complete evaporation. Available in white or black aluminum cabinets (additional colors are a paid option), TurboCool can be wall, post or ceiling mounted in addition to recessed installation in new construction.

If you are looking to increase per table revenue in your outdoor dining area during those hot summer days and keep your customers happy and coming back, TurboCool is the ideal solution.

pods are entirely made up of paper or silk, which is sealed in a foil packet to lock in freshness. Their flat, disc-like shape also increases the surface area for water to come into contact with the coffee grounds. This means more flavor and aroma is extracted from the grounds, improving the overall quality of each cup.

Soft coffee pods are fully recyclable and even compostable. This means that the pods not only break down naturally, but also provide the surrounding soil with nutrients in the process. There are no plastic cups to throw away, or compo-

nents to separate. In fact, there are several creative ways to dispose of your recyclable coffee pods and benefit the environment, such as tilling them into your garden or adding them to your compost bin. The future of single cup brewing is here.

Newco is helping its customers succeed – one cup at a time. For more than 40 years, it has pioneered brewing systems for coffee and tea that combine the latest technology and sleek styles.

For more information, visit www.renau.com, stop by booth #4652 or call 818.341.1994.

For more information, visit booth #1678.

Visit Newco at booth #238. For more information, go to www.newcocoffee.com or call 800.325.7867.

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Marra Forni: A Custom Solution When Andrew Dana and Chris Brady created Washington, D.C.’s Timber Pizza in May 2014, its Neapolitan-type pizza was solely available at local farmers markets. Dana and Brady’s newest venture, Call Your Mother Deli, is a Jewishinspired deli in the city’s Park View neighborhood. It specializes in a hybrid, wood-fired bagel that combines the sweet flavor of Montreal style with the boiled, baked and chewy consistency of the New York style.

Call Your Mother Deli has benefited from custom ovens manufactured by Marra Forni’s Metal Fabrication Department, which is capable of accommodating any requested size or shape without compromising the excellent heat consumption and retention of a traditional oven. Although these units are pre-

dominantly used for pizza, they are capable for a wide range of cooking tasks, from proteins and vegetables to unique bagel styles. With its Metal Fab Department, Marra Forni controls the entire manufacturing process. Operators benefit from faster lead time, controlled quality, new equipment and more opportunity for personalization and customization.

“We had a different oven prior, and the change was like night and day,” says Dana. “Marra Forni’s custom built oven is easier to use, and the product quality is great. For a pizza oven, it holds the temperature well.”

In addition to pizza, the oven is used for making empanadas, baking bread and roasting meat and vegetables. On the weekends, pastries and biscuits are pre-

ZIVELO: Your Total-Solution Partner in Self-Service Kiosks Not long ago, restaurant leaders were asking whether or not consumers would use kiosks, and if they did, if it would have a negative impact on customer service. Today, with nearly every major restaurant chain adopting self-service kiosks, those questions have been answered. It’s no longer a matter of if the technology could be applied successful to restaurant, but how it can be implemented most effectively.

The concept is proven, and consumers are increasingly choosing to patronize restaurants that offer effective self-service platforms, resulting in increased sales and loyalty. In fact, kiosks are so effective, some of ZIVELO’s clients have experienced up to 30 percent ticket lift after installation.

Yet, the strongest results come from clients that embraced ZIVELO’s proven successful rollout strategies, learned by successfully deploying kiosks throughout the restaurant industry.

“We’ve shipped tens of thousands of kiosks to some of the biggest brands in the world, and have gathered lots of lessons,” says Healey Cypher, Chief Executive Officer of ZIVELO. “There’s a lot of nuance to urban versus suburban environments or the languages spoken in a community. If you don’t have a conscious strategy for deployment, you fall into a lot of traps.”

Hardware, for example, is one area where many restaurants make mistakes, says Kris Bartel, Chief Business Development Officer for ZIVELO. “You

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pared in these units.

“Even though the oven cooks with live fire, it’s less of a guessing game,” says Dana.

Timber Pizza also includes a mobile operation with two Marra Forni ovens. “With food trucks, we’re dealing with cold temperatures in winter and hot temperatures in summer, so if it could handle the outside elements, we knew the Marra Forni oven could handle our bagel production.”

Call Your Mother’s bagel oven is 8 square feet and custom-painted pink. It is designed to crank out thousands of bagels a day. “Typical pizza ovens are domed and not as big as our bagel oven,” says Dana, who adds that Marra Forni is easy to work with and very responsive. “For the most part, people who make ovens can’t just put a polemounted tablet on the counter and expect it to work and be long-lasting in a commercial setting,” he says. “We’ve found that you need a fully immersive experience provided by a 27to 32-inch screen, which makes customers feel like they can spend time customizing their orders.”

When customers are immersed, they are more likely to consider add-on items, like cookies. “Even if your cookie is only $0.99, if your average ticket is $5, you’ve immediately earned a 20 percent lift,” Bartel says. “Kiosks also never fail to ask a guest if they want a drink, so you can make an extra $1.59 on a high-margin item.”

Placement and scheduling are also important factors. “You don’t want to put it in a corner or down a hallway near the bathrooms, you want the kiosk to be a disrupter – almost right in the way when a customer comes in to stop the guest from going to the counter,” Bartel says.

Plus, when deployed correctly, restaurants see increases for high-margin addon items, like fries, and the kitchen must

are not down for making custom, and Marra Forni went the extra step to create what we wanted. Plus, they’re local to us, so we were able to go to their test kitchen to work with

them.”

Marra Forni is currently developing a fourth custom oven for Dana and his team’s new pizza concept.

Marra Forni is the fastest-growing brick oven manufacturer in the world. All ovens are 100 percent American manufactured and are all ETL, NSF and CE certified.

Questions? Consult with an expert Business Developer at inquiries@ marraforni.com.

Visit Marra Forni at booth #2068. For more information, go to www.marraforni.com. be prepared to handle increased volume.

Additionally, it can help to schedule an employee ambassador to invite guests to use the kiosks, and help customers understand how to use them in the first few weeks, which can speed up adoption rates.

“Collectively, restaurants find that customers love the experience of the kiosks and get to order things at their pace,” Cypher says. “But associates love them, too. It changes their role into a heightened customer service person instead of requiring them to just take orders.”

Finally, software, installation, maintenance and financing are also major factors. ZIVELO is your total-solution partner for all of this. Though each restaurant is different and will require its own plan, partnering with a team that knows the industry and has experience with largescale kiosk rollouts can ensure a smooth transition.

For more information, visit booth #6379, or visit kiosks.zivelo.com/nra.

La Tourangelle Brings New Vinaigrette Line to the West Coas La Tourangelle launched a new line of organic vinaigrettes at this year’s Winter Fancy Food Show. Making their West Coast debut, these rich, flavorful vinaigrettes are the first to use La Tourangelle’s award winning artisan oils to create exceptional ready-to-pour vinaigrettes.

For La Tourangelle, high quality oil is the secret for higher quality and better tasting vinaigrettes. By combining their own award-winning artisan oils with fresh, organic ingredients, La Tourangelle delivers a superior vinaigrette with one easy pour. Each vinaigrette is delicately whipped with herbs, spices and acids like balsamic vinegar or lemon juice for a creamy consistency that doesn’t separate, with no whisking or shaking needed.

“For years La Tourangelle Artisan Oils have been the home chef’s secret

to exceptional dressings, vinaigrettes and so much more,” said La Tourangelle Founder Matthieu Kohlmeyer. “We are excited to say our artisan oils are still the secret to extraordinary vinaigrettes, and now the whisk and work of making them yourself is optional.”

There are currently four La Tourangelle vinaigrette flavors including: Creamy Ranch, made with Organic Virgin Avocado Oil; Classic Balsamic, made with Organic Extra Virgin Olive Oil; Sesame Tamari Vinaigrette, made with Organic Toasted Sesame Oil; and Citrus Chipotle, made with Organic Virgin Avocado Oil. They’re all certified organic by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, vegan, gluten free and low in sodium and sugar. Each is packaged in an 8.5-ounce glass bottle that retails for $5.99.

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Hoffmaster Group, Inc. and Aardvark Team Up Aardvark® paper straws is the world’s leading brand of paper straws made in the USA. Not only are Aardvark paper straws earth and marine friendly, naturally degradable, FDA/EU compliant and compostable, they are also noticeably longer lasting than other paper straws in the market. Hoffmaster®, an industry leader in premium disposable tableware, knew Aardvark was a company worth investing in.

Andy Romjue, President of Hoffmaster’s Foodservice Division, said, “This is an important acquisition for Hoffmaster as Aardvark straws are a nat-

Mia Dolci Crispy Shortbread Cookies PARTNERS®, A Tasteful Choice Company, has introduced Mia Dolci Crispy Shortbread Cookies — a lighter and crispier indulgence than traditional shortbread.

They’re available in Chocolate Swirl, Lightly Lemon, Cinnamon Spice and seasonal Pumpkin Spice. They have no artificial sweeteners, no high fructose corn syrup, no hydrogenated oils, and no artificial flavors or preservatives. They’re made with real, honest ingredients like fresh lemon juice, lemon zest and real butter. They’re also low in sugar, with just 7 grams per four-to-five cookie serving.

For more information, call 800.632.7477 or go to www.partnerscrackers.com.

GloryBee Brown Butter Honey Ghee

GloryBee Brown Butter Honey Ghee is the first of its kind, providing a salty caramelized flavor to the sweet simplicity of honey. A paleo-friendly blend, this spread can be used to provide an unexpected and exciting taste to many dishes. GloryBee Brown Butter Honey Ghee is made by blending nutty and aromatic brown butter from grass fed cows with clover blossom honey – all sourced and made in the Pacific Northwest.

GloryBee Brown Butter Honey Ghee has a slightly sweet and salty caramel-like flavor, and a smooth and creamy texture. Use as a spread on toast, bagels, pancakes and waffles; as topping on popcorn or for roasting vegetables, nuts and meats.

GloryBee Brown Butter Honey Ghee became an instant sensation at the Winter Fancy Food Show and was voted the top ghee present due to its taste and versatility.

For more information, call 800.456.7923 or go to www.glorybee.com.

ural extension of our premium portfolio and complement our line of environmentally responsible products.”

Soon after the acquisition of Aardvark by Hoffmaster Group, Inc., the plans to open a new, larger manufacturing facility in Fort Wayne, Indiana, began. This new state-of-the-art facility, that opened its doors to manufacturing in February 2019, will help to increase production and better support the demand for current and new Aardvark customers.

Bans on plastic straws continue to grow along our nation’s waterways.

Notable foodservice operator brands

have also announced they will begin to eliminate plastic straws from their establishments. Hoffmaster Group Inc’s investment in the infrastructure, assets and employees at Aardvark are all in anticipation to meet the current customer’s demands as well as the forecasted growth of paper straws.

When you already have the top of the line paper straw, what do you do next? Innovate. Aardvark and Hoffmaster are continually looking at new ways to meet the needs of their ever-changing customers. Aardvark’s line of paper drinking and cocktail straws have expanded in lengths and diameters to meet the requirements of all types of drinks, including shakes, smoothies, cof-

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fee and boba teas. Coffee stir sticks, collated pack of boba tea straws and bar stirrers are also new additions to the Aardvark line in 2019. The invention of the one of a kind Eco-Flex™ paper straw allows the straw to bend, providing a solution in the healthcare industry and in-patient care.

Hoffmaster and Aardvark are committed to providing a high-quality alternative to plastic and plant-based (PLA) alternatives, with a focus on reducing waste and saving precious marine life.

For more information, visit booth #2788, go to www.hoffmaster.com, email marketing@hoffmaster.com or call 800.327.9774.

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XLERATOR Hand Dryers Save Restaurant 96 Percent Annually Compared to Paper Towels

By William Gagnon, Vice President of Sales and Marketing, Excel Dryer, Inc.

“It’s my job to spot the latest trends that can help us cut costs,” said Tim Taillefer, General Manager of Max Burger in Longmeadow, Massachusetts. “The best investment we made when opening this location was XLERATOR® hand dryers.”

XLERATOR by Excel Dryer is the original, patented, high-speed, energyefficient hand dryer. For Max Burger, it represented a 96-percent cost savings over paper towels, eliminating extra maintenance and waste while creating a more hygienic restroom environment.

A customized cost-savings analysis revealed that Max Burger used nearly 750,000 paper towels a year, an annual

expense of $5,850. As Taillefer noted, “most folks aren’t going to grab one; they’re going to grab 10 to 20. You’re going to go through multiple boxes a day.”

XLERATOR proved a cost-effective, environmentally friendly alternative. After purchasing two of the highefficiency hand dryers, Max Burger saw its annual hand-hygiene expense plummet to $224.64, a savings of $5,600 per year. In addition, the analysis showed, XLERATOR Hand Dryers reduced the restaurant’s hand-drying carbon footprint by 80 percent. That’s because by throwing in the towel, Max Burger saved approximately 62 trees, 11 cubic yards in landfill space and 72,789 gallons of water – just in a single year.

XLERATOR was not the first hand

Packaging to Simplify Off-Premise Sales Off-premise sales is not only an opportunity for any restaurant to grow their sales and brand recognition, but a rapidly growing sector of the business. Offpremise sales covers an array of exciting ways to get your product out there: takeout, meal kits, catering, kiosks, food trucks, retail and more. Off-premise sales account for over a third of all restaurant sales and is expected to keeping growing.

Lacerta has looked to design packages for the industry that are stylish, practical and unique, with an aim to always put the food first, making the launch of any new project effortless.

With a full tamper evident line, Fresh n’ Sealed includes grab-and-go packages from salad containers, wraps, parfaits, sandwiches and more.

Lacerta’s upscale tamper evident square

bowls offer a contemporary look that gives food stand-out shelf appeal. It’s offered in three different footprints: 4.5-inch, 6-inch and 7.5-inch, ranging from 8 to 48 ounces. The containers were designed with sleek lines for salads, pre-packaged meals, on-the-go foods and more. Both the 6-inch and 7.5-inch also offer a variety of film sealable inserts for all the salad or snack toppings one could ever want.

Having film sealable inserts extends shelf life and offers a lot of options for assembling. With these containers, inventory management is simplified; there is no need for shrink bands, film, inventorying matching lids and other complexities. Lacerta offers multi-compartment snack boxes in two, three or four compartments, along with smaller

Waring Commercial Drink Mixers: Power, Durability, Efficiency The company that introduced America to the “Miracle Mixer,” the first blender on the market, has unveiled its new HeavyDuty Drink Mixer Series. Designed with ultra-durable die-cast metal housing and sealed electronic controls, these units are engineered for high-volume applications to accommodate the growing demand for drink mixers that deliver superior performance and consistency.

“It took thorough field analysis and innovation to develop this series of drink mixers,” said Waring General Manager Dan DeBari. “Our engineers have

removed all failure points by redirecting airflow, removing switches and sealing all splash zones.” The result: a new age of fail-free drink mixing technology that enables operators to produce large volumes of blended beverages with consummate ease and efficiency.

True 1 HP motors with high torque and feedback provide power to spare.

Electronic controls with countdown LED timers, speed functions and MAX pulse make these drink mixers especially easy to use, and two types of agitators handle all different mixes with hard or soft ice

Nutiva Debuts Squeezable Coconut Manna Nutiva®, pioneer of plant-based organic superfoods that nurture vitality, debuted its Squeezable Coconut Manna™ at 2019 Winter Fancy Food Show. Crafted from organic pureed coconuts, this coconut butter spread is available in Original Coconut flavor and, for the first time,

Almond and Chocolate flavors. All three are packaged in an innovative pouch that’s portable, mess-free and allows for better portion control when dispensing.

“With the growing popularity of nut butters, our new Squeezable Coconut Manna is a fresh take on coconut butter

dryer in place at Max Restaurant Group establishments. The company had installed troughstyle hand dryers in the past, a choice that ultimately served as a learning experience. “The cleaning element became an issue, as they fill with water,” explained restaurant manager Laura Katsoulis. “We had to maintain those. With the XLERATOR, it maintains itself.”

As the restaurant’s self-described “Mr. Fix-it,” Taillefer also appreciates the XLERATOR’s durability and reliability, which he notes have made it the industry standard. “I’ve been in the restaurant industry for almost two decades, and after the first year everything begins to break,” he said. “Unlike XLERATOR Hand Dryers, many of our restroom fixtures have needed replacement.”

What’s more, the XLERATOR dries hands three times faster than convention-

handheld packages and parfaits. Grab-and-go packaging is not the only way to get into the sector, though; meal kits and take-home kits are a great way to take your existing recipes and bring them straight to your customer’s kitchen. Lacerta can find smaller packages for the ingredients or supply a large container to fit everything nicely.

With Fresh n’ Sealed, you get both the security and peace of mind, along with a great way to differentiate your product from the competition. The packages are designed so that once closed, they provide security, leak resistance and freshness. In order to open the package, a tear strip must be removed to gain access to the newly exposed tabs to remove the lid. All the containers are 100 percent

al hand dryers – while using 80 percent less energy.

Hygiene is particularly important for the restaurant industry, another reason Taillefer cited for choosing the XLERATOR. “We serve about 4,000 people a week, so it’s great that guests and staff don’t have to touch anything when they use the XLERATOR,” he said, noting that the handsfree approach helps prevent the spread of illness. “[That] is a big advantage for the foodservice industry, because the flu can wipe out half my staff in a day.”

“It’s a logical choice to do it right the first time,” Taillefer said he would advise other eateries. “Get an XLERATOR Hand Dryer, and never have to worry about paper products again.”

Visit Excel Dryer at booth #3476. For more information, go to www.excel dryer.com, call 800.255.9235 or email sales@exceldryer.com. recyclable, have flawless clarity and are easy to use.

About Lacerta Group, Inc. Lacerta is a family-owned manufacturer of plastic food packaging. From concept to prototyping, mold-making and production, it is a turnkey manufacturer of custom and stock packaging, including party trays, on-the-go containers, prepared meal containers and more.

The Fresh n’ Sealed tamper evident line ranges from 1.5 to 120 ounce and has expanded to include parfaits, snack packs, square bowls and even microwavable. With Fresh n’ Sealed packages, you get a refreshingly simple and streamlined design.

For more information, visit booth #10539, go to www.lacerta.com, call 508.339.3312 or email sales@lacerta.com.

creams for exceptional versatility. The smooth die-cast metal housing is not only superbly constructed, but easy to clean and reduces sound during operation. A recessed surface in the base eliminates the need to tilt the cup, reducing operator fatigue and preventing spills. Extra-wide cup rests keep cups securely in place while mixing.

At the touch of a button, low-, medium- and high-speed settings and “count up” and “count down” programmable timing options simplify mixing a wide variety of beverages. The pulse feature provides an extra boost to complete or refresh mixes. From ice cream shakes and smoothies to daiquiris and margari-

tas, these drink mixers elevate any drink menu to help boost bar business and encourage a higher check average in the dining room.

As impressive as the series’ many features are, the most exceptional innovation may be its independent airflow technology, which increases the distance between intake and exhaust to prevent recirculation and ensure machines will not overheat. Thermal protection extends the life of each unit exponentially by preventing the motor from overheating due to overuse.

with tasty flavors and convenient packaging,” said Steven Naccarato, Chief Executive Officer of Nutiva.

“We’re excited to debut our first flavored Coconut Manna pouches, Almond and Chocolate, for even more usage occasions and portable pouch for easy and hygienic squeezing.”

Nutiva Squeezable Coconut Manna is certified organic by the U.S.

Department of Agriculture and certified free of genetically modified ingredients by the Non-GMO Project.

It’s also gluten free, dairy free and contains no added sugar, zero grams of trans fat and no cholesterol. It can be squeezed into oatmeal, spread onto toast or added to smoothies.

Visit Waring at booth #2616.

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Captain Ken’s Celebrates More Than 50 Years

By Mike Traxler, co-Owner, Captain Ken’s Foods, Inc.

Great foods often originate in unlikely places. In fact, Captain Ken Freiberg developed his famous Firehouse OvenBaked Beans while on duty at Firehouse No. 14 in St. Paul, Minnesota. Fifty years later, this signature recipe (plus many others) are made with the same attention to detail and commitment to quality.

The story of Captain Ken’s Foods began in the summer of 1943, when Ken Freiberg joined the St. Paul, Minnesota fire department. In 1953, he was promoted to Captain. As was custom at most fire stations, each fireman took turns cooking meals for his fellow firefighters. Captain

Ken’s specialty was making oven-baked beans with bacon. Word spread, and people from the neighborhood would stop by the fire station hoping to sample some of Captain Ken’s home cooked oven-baked beans.

As Ken’s bean recipe grew in popularity, his fellow firefighters urged him to start a business, but Ken wasn’t ready to give up life as a firefighter. In 1963, though, he used his two-week vacation to sell his oven-baked beans from a food stand at the Minnesota State Fair. The beans were a big hit! A few years later in 1967, at age 55, Ken retired early from the fire department to start Captain Ken’s Foods. It didn’t take long for Captain Ken’s reputation for making quality food products to grow.

Prairie View Industries: A Proven Company

By Sonia M. Krupicka, Sales Manager, Prairie View Industries, Inc.

PVI is a USA manufacturer of foodservice equipment and access ramps. We are centrally located in Nebraska, USA, and ship direct from the heartland of America to make our lead times unmatched. PVI is committed to continuously improving the high quality of standard products offered at a competitive price. With a world full of promises unkept and a flood of cheap imitations, PVI is the real deal.

PVI manufactures the highest quality foodservice equipment in the USA. With

a product line that consists of both stainless and aluminum equipment, PVI can be your one-stop-shop for all your kitchen and restaurant needs.

For close to 30 years, PVI has been producing a wide variety of foodservice equipment to meet the needs that exist.

We are continually striving to go beyond the typical foodservice equipment, looking for fresh and new ideas that industrious entrepreneurs want and need for thriving catering, bakery or restaurant businesses.

As mentioned before, we manufacture both access ramps and foodservice

Accurate Box Remains FSSC 22000 Food Safety Certified Accurate Box, a leading manufacturer of litho-laminated packaging in the United States, proudly received its FSSC 22000 Food Safety Certification back in November of 2017, and continues to be certified after an audit in November of 2018.

Accurate Box’s facility went through a lengthy and detailed review of its procedures and documentation as it relates to food safety practices. This certification is in addition to Accurate Box’s ISO

9001:2015 Quality Standards.

“I am very proud of the entire Accurate Box team for their hard work in receiving this certification. Our number one core value is to be customer focused; we cannot succeed unless our customers do. This wonderful accomplishment will allow us to better service our customers, especially those in the food and beverage industry,” said Lisa Hirsh, President and Chief Executive Officer.

FSSC 22000 contains a complete

Control °Freak from Breville | PolyScience The Breville | PolyScience® Control °Freak™ is the world’s first temperaturecontrolled cooking system to accurately measure, set and hold every cooking temperature from 86 degrees to 482 degrees Fahrenheit within plus or minus 1 degree Fahrenheit of stability.

In addition to the through-the-glass pan temperature sensor, the Control °Freak features a temperature probe that communicates and controls the precise temperature of water and fat-based liquids, making potentially challenging

techniques/recipes such as egg poaching, hollandaise, curds and meringues easy by controlling the temperature of the ingredients themselves. This opens up the possibility of executing more progressive menu options, even with less-skilled labor.

The machine can record recipe temperature programs for future use with features such as: hold a temperature indefinitely (72 hours with a timer), automatically “Keep Warm” (140 degrees Fahrenheit), “Repeat Timer,” and “Stop

Today, Captain Ken’s processes and markets a diverse range of premium food products for the foodservice and retail markets. The company features a broad line of award-winning chilies, made-from-scratch ovenbaked beans (not canned!), specialty taco meats, varied flavored macaroni and cheese recipes and more. Other customer favorites include Sloppy Joe Meat Sauce, Tater Tot Casserole, Chicken Pot Pie Filling, Cheesy Hashbrown Potatoes, Spanish Rice and Home-style Chicken Chow Mein. All products are made using premium ingredients and are pre-cooked, then flash frozen to lock in freshness and nutritional value.

Captain Ken’s Foods is family owned and operated. Products are manufactured at the company’s St. Paul,

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Minnesota facility, which is a USDA- and FDA-inspected and certified plant. Package types range from institutional size one-gallon pouches to single serve containers. Products are distributed by national and regional broadline distributors.

End-user operators include restaurants, cafeterias, resorts, casinos, caterers, convenience stores, delis, healthcare facilities, schools and more.

All Captain Ken’s products offer quality, consistency and value.

Employees take great pride in making great tasting food products and continuing the commitment to quality that Founder Captain Ken Freiberg started more than 50 years ago.

For more information, visit www.captain kens.com, call 651.298.0071, contact Mike Traxler mtraxler@captainkens.com or stop by booth #8062.

equipment. We added the foodservice equipment line to our manufacturing in 1999. Since that time, PVI has become a major player in the foodservice industry through innovative design and creativity.

We pride ourselves on listening to our customers and building equipment that will solve their specific needs. Our design team not only brainstorms with customers but is also able to provide professional CAD drawings for approval before manufacturing.

When considering any major purchase, most of us look for something of quality, durability and a proven record of consistency. We want something that will

last and that we can count on when we need it. PVI believes that there are no shortcuts for quality. We are not the typical cookie cutter company. We pride ourselves on every piece of equipment manufactured at our facility. Quality, Durability, Guaranteed is not just our motto, it’s who we are and what we are known for. With a proven record of consistency for many years, look no further then PVI for all your foodservice equipment needs.

certification scheme for food safety systems and prerequisite programs based on existing standards for certification. It is a globally acknowledged benchmark food safety standard established by the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) that integrates the international food safety management system standard ISO 22000 with the ISO/TS 22002-4 standard.

lithography and has the ability to print seven colors plus UV coating in a single pass on both small and large runs. It is an expert in creating high quality packaging for the club store, ecommerce and quick service food industries. In business since 1944, and women owned since 1998, Accurate Box manufactures in New Jersey and ships competitively throughout all of North America.

About Accurate Box Company Accurate Box Company is one of the largest family owned manufacturers of high graphic corrugated packaging in the United States. It specializes in offset

Cooking.” These programs can be shared with other Control °Freaks thanks to a custom USB port and stick. The ability to create and store temperature programs allows for “one touch operation,” yielding a consistent result no matter who’s cooking. USB functionality allows temperature programs to easily be shared across multiple cookers and locations.

A dual-fan system efficiently and effectively cools all the machine’s internal components, extending the life of the Control °Freak and eliminating overheat-

For more information, go to www.pvifs.com, call 800.554.7267 or email sonia@pvifs.com.

Visit Accurate Box at booth #7260. For more information, go to www.accurate box.com or call 973.345.2000.

ing. The unit comes with a protective travel case for safe transport. The Control °Freak carries a two-year limited product warranty.

Breville | PolyScience for commercial kitchens brings innovation, great design and precision to the professional culinary world. The company aims to build products that give chefs more control so they can focus on delivering their best creative work.

For more information, visit booth #1840 or go to www.polyscienceculinary.com.

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Hot Refreshment Towels Increase Customer Satisfaction Customer satisfaction is the most important part of your business. Your customers judge you, and your business, by the way they are treated when they visit your restaurant. A simple, cost-effective way to satisfy your customers is to present them with a pre-moistened, 100 percent cotton terry cloth refreshment towel before, or after, their meal.

White Towel Services, Inc., a leader in the refreshment towel industry, offers a full range of affordable pre-packaged, pre-moistened, single use, terry cloth

refreshment towels in sizes from 8 inches by 8 inches up to 12 inches by 12 inches.

Each towel comes scented with lemon or lavender essential oils for the ultimate in a luxury towel. They are also available in a wonderful peach-mango scent or unscented.

Using a White Towel Services towel warmer for heating is easy! Just add its pre-moistened towels at the beginning of service and turn the warmer on. Your towels will be hot and ready all day. With a small footprint, you can place the

Karat Manufactures New Sipper Lid

By Kendra Cerbasi, Marketing Coordinator, Karat® by Lollicup™

Karat by Lollicup is launching the new Strawless™ Sipper Lid to help customers comply with straw bans and stay on trend within the coffee, tea and restaurant industry. New Strawless Sipper Lids allow you to skip the straw and sip!

These lids are perfect for combating local and nationwide straw bans along with cutting down on straw waste.

The new Strawless Sipper Lid is the first of its kind, because it has a hybrid feature for drinking with or without a straw. This is the first lid to have both features, allowing individuals with health conditions or people with disabilities that need to drink with a straw to be able to do so.

“With imposing straw bans taking effect, we needed to provide a solution for our customers who are having difficulty finding an affordable way to serve

New Product Offerings from Sterno To meet the needs of the evolving foodservice landscape, Sterno Products recently launched SpeedHeat®, a flameless, water-activated system that produces high-heat steam, with zero rampup time. It is considered by many in the catering industry to be the most innovative portable heat system since the introduction of Sterno chafing fuel more than a century ago. Industry press has echoed this opinion – SpeedHeat recently took top honors in Foodservice Equipment Reports Magazine, 2018 Tabletop Competition; Catersource Magazine called the product a “terrific innovation.”

Sterno continues to expand its food-

service offerings with its line of Insulated Food Carriers (IFCs), designed for the demands of the catering industry, and are ideal for hot (or cold) delivery. These lightweight and portable IFCs are ideal for transporting your culinary creations at the optimal temperature.

Known as Sterno Delivery®, this line of IFCs features: multi-reinforced, crosswoven, high-tensile strength liners, creating a super-tough, leak-proof environment; dense-gauge urethane foam with high insulation value, providing state-ofthe-industry heating/cooling performance; and continuous formed foam vertical wall construction, delivering 360

warmer almost anywhere.

Each warmer has a 100 percent money back lifetime warranty, and is UL Listed.

A refreshment towel served refreshingly chilled, or soothingly warmed, will help your customer will remember that touch of firstclass service your restaurant provides.

This simple experience can entice them to come back again or to recommend your restaurant to their friends.

Why not add your name and logo to each package? Your company has its own unique identity, from your signature drinks without a straw. We also thought it was important to give customers a choice to use a reusable or eco-friendly straw with the lid, as well,” says Chief Executive Officer Alan Yu. Karat by Lollicup created this lid to be the solution for straw bans, and help customers who are struggling to find an alternative. Customers will now be able to stay on trend and up to date with their competitors with this new sipper lid. This lid is made from PET, which is easy to

degree temperature protection.

Worried about butane safety? You’ll be glad to know Sterno’s butane canisters are designed with the latest safety technology. The unique safety system features Temperature Sensing Valve (TSV) and Rim Vent Release (RVR) technologies.

The TSV shuts off the flame if the stove is being misused and overheating. The RVR is a back-up safety feature that prevents over-pressurization.

Along with 20 new, on-trend lamp designs, Sterno’s new Allure – Real Flame, No Mess Candle offers the opportunity for endless creative applications.

Developed to meet the challenges of

products and services to the special relationships you’ve created with your customers. Design the towel packaging any way you wish.

Convey your marketing message creatively and stand out from your competition.

White Towel Services, Inc. is the original source for hot and cold towel service.

Visit White Towel Services at booth #3878.

For more information, go to www.wtowel .com, email info@wtowel.com or call 817.868.7900.

recycle compared to other plastics.

Karat by Lollicup is a premier beverage and disposable goods supplier and manufacturer for the foodservice industry. Karat by Lollicup owns four brands: Karat, Karat Earth®, Tea Zone® and Total Clean™.

For more information, visit booth #1257, go to www.karatpackaging.com or www.lollicupusa.com, call 626.965.8882 or email marketing@karatpackaging.com.

using a real wax candle, the Allure provides a real flame, without the melted wax mess. It features a patent pending plastic cover and base that fits 24-hour and 30-hour Sterno SoftLight® Liquid Wax Candles. The Allure can be used in a unique vessel or within the included hurricane and filled with sand, coffee beans or shells, etc. to create a stunning piece.

Stop by the Sterno Products booth to see all the company will be delivering to the foodservice industry in 2019.

Visit Sterno Products at booth #6912.

For more information, go to www.sterno pro.com or call 951.682.9600.

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Authentic Specialty Grains from Royal Increasingly, consumers are seeking out and paying more for authentic ingredients and dishes. Technomic®, in the 2019 Ethnic Food & Beverage report, shows 53 percent of Americans are consuming more ethnic foods and beverages with one in four of all consumers desiring limited and full-service restaurants offer ethnic foods and flavors.

The Royal® brand, a leader in authentic specialty grains, goes directly to the origin to source products from

regions from which they are known; where the ideal blend of soil, climate and water makes for a distinctly aromatic and flavorful grain.

For example, Royal Basmati is grown at the foothills of the Himalayan Mountains, giving this full-flavored grain it’s naturally enticing aroma and delicate taste. Then after careful harvesting, it is aged for a minimum of 12 months in temperature-controlled silos, further enhancing the characteristics of the grain.

Fox Laminating Company Expands to Include Digital Printing Fox Laminating Company is a manufacturer, printer and laminator – with all products proudly made in the USA. It is best known for creating high quality, custom laminated wood plaques, and has been in business for over 40 years. In addition to impressive looking plaques, the company produces menus and table display cards in a variety of styles.

Recently, Fox expanded its services to include digital printing. It is a certified Xerox® digital printer and provides every type of print service for most paper

stocks. The Xerox Color 1000i Press provides black, CMYK – full color and spot color print options. Moreover, the 1000i digital press is capable of printing metallic gold and silver inks, as well as a clear coating with as many passes needed to give the raised feature that many customers are looking for. The creative department at Fox also has the ability to provide pre-press services such as crops and bleeds, imposition, scanning and photo manipulation, just to name a few.

The main benefit in obtaining this

LoRaWAN: Food Safety’s New Technological Marvel If you’ve never heard of LoRa, you’re not alone. Although it’s the hottest new communication technology on the market today, it’s also relatively brand new.

Originally developed in 2012 and only just starting to make its way into mass market products, LoRa specializes in transmitting over long ranges (hence the name). In fact, LoRa devices can transmit over 10 miles with clear line-of-sight.

This technology is also remarkable for its low-power consumption, energy efficiency and low cost.

Most importantly for commercial kitchens and their food safety programs, LoRa also performs well in very difficult environments. Restaurants may not care about transmitting to a receiver located

miles away, but they do need a device that can work from within a heavily insulated, stainless steel deep freezer.

In fact, many heavily insulated coolers are essentially Faraday cages that prevent electromagnetic signals from escaping. A LoRa-based wireless temperature sensor, however, can reliably transmit its signal even under these conditions. LoRa uses lower frequencies in the 868 and 915 MHz ranges, which are more successful at transmitting through heavy materials.

By contrast, although Bluetooth (which operates in the 2.4 GHz band) and Wi-Fi are the de facto standard for most wireless devices to communicate with other equipment or with the cloud, they

Carla’s Pasta: The Production Facility of the Future Carla’s Pasta is setting new standards in the food safety industry. Its new production facility is designed around a high hygiene, BRC+ concept, and the only ready-to-eat filled pasta company in the U.S. establishing this level of excellence for food safety.

This new state-of-the-art production facility is purposefully designed with a three-zone hygiene system, requiring employees and equipment designated to each zone to remain within their respective area. This prevents pathogens from ever entering food prep areas. The facility features 21-inch stainless steel concrete filled baseboards to eliminate

harborage collecting cavities, stainless steel curbs to block moisture collection, and ¼-inch thick antimicrobial coated concrete floors for a chemical and slip resistant surface.

The use of multi-zoned, stainlesssteel air ducts in high hygiene areas create positive air pressure to prevent outside air from ever entering, minimizing any risk of foreign airborne contaminants. The ultraviolet lighting and HEPA filtration systems disinfect and filter out foreign matter from the air.

Underneath the facility, an isolated multi-zone draining system carries wastewater away from each zone inde-

Royal closely partners with its farmers to sustainably source, grow and harvest its grains, including water management programs to reduce water consumption in its crops by 3x and provide cleaner water in villages, also providing its network of over 75,000 farmers with resources to help improve the areas where they live, going beyond the requirements of Fair-Trade guidelines, enabling a better quality of life.

For recipe inspiration and to learn

more about the Royal brand and its lineup of authentic specialty grains, visit the company’s booth or go online at www.authentic royal.com. At the show, the company is cooking and offering free samples of its traditional Royal Basmati, Royal Chef’s Secret and Royal Thai Hom Mali Jasmine products, and giving away a $100 gift card each day of the show.

color press for the foodservice and restaurant industry is to produce eye-popping menus, table tent cards, counter cards, placemats, order forms, employee I.D. badges, magazine and newsprint article plaques, award acrylic plaques and anything in between.

Additionally, Fox is able to provide excellent finishing options, such as scoring, folding, stapling, binding, and of course, laminating. With the capability to design, print and fulfill all orders, Fox provides full production and shipping without having to compromise turn-around time, quality con-

trol and pricing.

Laminated wood plaques and digital printing services are produced from start to finish in the company’s West Hartford, manufacturing Connecticut shop. If you are in the vicinity, feel free to stop in for a quick tour.

Fox also offers Do-ItYourself I.D. supplies, attachments and laminating equipment.

For more information, visit booth #685 or go to www.authenticroyal.com.

Visit Fox Laminating Company at booth #9123. For more information, call 860.953.4884, email graphics@ foxlaminating.com or go to www.fox laminating.com.

can falter in these conditions. Before LoRa, remotely monitoring the temperature in a cold-holding unit often entailed making undesirable compromises, like drilling holes to run cable or setting up multiple antennas to extend the signal. Those efforts add expense, labor and potential points of failure – and could end up voiding equipment warranties.

LoRa requires none of that. It just works.

Digital, automated and wireless food safety systems are proliferating in restaurant kitchens, thanks to their ability to provide better results, safer food, enhanced brand protection and peace of mind that operations are shielded against food safety disasters. However, smart devices like temperature sensors cannot work if they cannot successfully and con-

sistently communicate at all times.

The LoRa-enabled sensor “lives” fully in the environment it is monitoring, so no wiring, drilling or extra equipment (like repeaters or external antennas) are required to get data from the device to the Cloud. LoRa sensors are also hardened against power grid issues; data can be stored on the device until power and/or internet connectivity is restored.

LoRa presents exciting new opportunities for restaurants to get smart about their operations, implement more effective food safety systems and drive greater efficiencies.

pendently, so the plant is never at risk for contamination if a backup were ever to occur. Drain pipes in the building are bound together by a process called electrofusion, which provides a seamless, welded seal between sections of pipe, preventing any opportunity for pathogens to propagate.

An Environmental Monitoring Program (EMP) is also strictly enforced throughout the building, to seek out any traces of pathogens. Before the start of production, and each day, allergen and ATP swabs (measuring actively growing microorganisms) are conducted throughout the facility. Case Level 10 testing on all finished product is also completed regularly to ensure maximum confidence

in food safety. Every night, 40,000 gallons of hot, pressurized water is heated to 130 degrees Fahrenheit and used for a complete facility wash-down, including the blanchers and spiral freezers.

With the facility of the future now a reality, Carla’s Pasta continues to lead the industry with an unprecedented level of food safety practices. This facility totals 90,000 square feet, bringing the entire production capacity to just shy of 200,000 square feet.

Carla’s Pasta is the largest specialty filled pasta company in the U.S., woman owned and family operated since 1978 and proud to be recognized and part of NWBOC.

For more information, visit booth #9442, go to www.compliancemate.com, call 678.526.4628 or email info@ compliancemate.com.

Visit Carla’s Pasta at booth #707.

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Restaurant Daily News

Pulmuone USA Launches Ready-to-Eat Tofu Crumbles and Crispy Tofu Bites Established in May 1984, Pulmuone Foods USA is recognized as a leader in refrigerated, natural food products. The company employs food scientists and experts domestically and internationally.

Founded originally in Seoul, Pulmuone offers wholesome food products in a range of categories, from conventional water-packed and ready-toserve pre-marinated and pre-baked tofu to authentic Asian-inspired foods, such as dumplings, vegan kimchi, noodle bowls, low-carb noodles, wraps and more.

At NRA, the company is launching Ready-to-Eat Tofu Crumbles in three

varieties, as well as Crispy Tofu Bites and Bulk Super Firm High Protein (Sprouted) 6/6# Vac Pack Tofu.

The company has manufacturing facilities throughout California, New York and Massachusetts, with scientists and food experts who work tirelessly, utilizing cutting-edge technology to research and develop the most organic, natural, delicious products that can be brought to the market.

Pulmuone is committed to the wellbeing of your family and the environment, promoting sustainable and earthfriendly lifestyles. By delivering convenient and wholesome foods and services

Amoroso’s is Philly Bred for Sandwich Greatness Nothing says more about the quality of your restaurant, grocery store, supermarket, sports or entertainment venue or foodservice operation than the quality of the bread you sell and serve. That’s why Amoroso’s Baking Company is sure to enhance your company’s reputation and help attract new customers.

For more than 115 years, beginning in 1904 in Philadelphia, Amoroso’s Baking Company and its authentic Italian Hearth-Baked Bread and Rolls have been

the stuff legendary Philly cheesesteaks, hoagies, roast beef and roast pork sandwiches made their reputations on. Over the past 40 years, that reputation has spread across the country and around the world. Amoroso’s now offers its extended shelf-life items that have been inspired

by Amoroso’s sandwich rolls in Philadelphia for commissaries and grab and go applications.

Amoroso’s is “Why Philly sandwiches are world-famous.”™

JoeFroyo Makes the Old New Again with Cold-Pressed Creamery

By Colby Scharsch, Lead Designer, JoeFroyo

Soy, almond, quinoa, cashew, rice, hemp, millet, oat, even macadamia. It seems like nowadays, you can turn anything into a “milk.” To be sure, there is a huge market for lactose-free dairy alternatives. But in 2019, some of the biggest innovations in the lactose-free beverage space are coming from within the dairy industry.

Dairy disruptor JoeFroyo is leading a charge to change the way people think about milk.

“Believe me, I’m lactose-intolerant: I get it,” says JoeFroyo Founder and President Zach Miller. “But I also love

dairy, and I wanted to find a way to bridge that gap. Dairy alternatives have been trying for years to recreate the perfect balance of taste, mouthfeel and essential nutrition that milk provides. My main difference is, instead of running away from milk, I ran toward it.”

That passion led Miller to start JoeFroyo, as he began formulating a drink that would combine the caffeine boost of coffee with the valuable health benefits of cultured dairy, but without the lactose. The resulting beverage was JoeFroyo’s first product, Probiotic Cold Brew™. But the undertaking led to Miller developing a proprietary process for creating a lactose-free cultured dairy

DeBrand Truffles: A Sweet Conclusion to Any Meal DeBrand Truffles are the luxurious sweet conclusion that will entice each and every customer. These 12 incredible variations seem almost too beautiful to eat ... almost! Each oversized piece is individually and artistically designed, but their true beauty lies within. These are the perfect complement to your menu and require no preparation by you.

Featuring these beautiful truffles on your menu and in a display case is the perfect way to entice your customers. As they arrive, they will be

greeted by the promise of a high-quality, gourmet dessert. Even if they decide against indulging immediately after their meal, they can purchase truffles as they leave to be enjoyed later. This is an easy add-on sale and has no need for any preparation, just bag or box and go.

DeBrand is also happy to provide artwork and product descriptions for menus, displays and social media advertising.

These irresistible silky, rich truffles are petite, gourmet chocolate desserts,

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that fit today’s busy lifestyles, the company provides conscious choices for the planet and its people, which allows all people to walk a path for a better tomorrow.

Pulmuone is attending the NRA show with a determination to find even more opportunities through which it can present product offerings and production capabilities to large foodservice operators. The company is determined to be the go-to company for plant-based protein, now and in the future. It takes great pride in providing quality, plant-based products that are not only good for people, but also good for the earth.

Pulmuone’s customers are in all facets of the foodservice arena – includ-

ing healthcare, non-commercial, college and university as well as large national and regional restaurant chains. The company consistently seeks unique ways to present plant proteins in ways that will help customers connect with all types of guests – vegan, vegetarian, flexitarians and even carnivores who are beginning to embrace healthier eating through programs such as Meatless Mondays. A Harris Poll in 2016 indicated that 37 percent of all restaurant guests nationally are seeking vegetarian options when dining out.

Now the classic Philly sandwich rolls, synonymous with Philadelphia-style sandwiches, are available anywhere in the United States or around the world. So recognizable is the quality of Amoroso’s frozen products, Philadelphia natives immediately recognize Amoroso’s unique taste and high quality.

With the resources and capacity to service both individual food retailers and large supermarket chains – even design custom products tailored to specific com-

pany needs – Amoroso’s is the local Philly bakery that’s an international become resource. Now the rolls that made Philly sandwiches worldfamous are available worldwide.

Amoroso’s also offers a wide array of specialty goods, including, but not limited to, rye breads and other variety sliced breads, bagels, table breads, burger buns and more.

For more information, visit booth #10724, go to www.pulmuonefoodsusa.com, or email John Penty at john.penty@ pulmuone.com.

Visit Amoroso’s at booth #1835. For more information, call sales at 215.863.8815, email sales@amorosobaking.com or go to www.amorosobaking.com.

base, including using high pressure processing (HPP) to extend shelf life and improve taste.

While he was overjoyed by the success of the Probiotic Cold Brew formula, Miller was even more excited about the potential for the cold-pressed dairy base he had created. After using the same process to create the lactose-free, probiotic Clean Label Creamer™, Miller was ready to fully explore the opportunities for producing dairy using HPP. The end result is Cold-Pressed Creamery™, a new label for JoeFroyo’s cold-pressed dairy beverages produced using HPP. As with all of JoeFroyo’s products, Cold-Pressed Creamery will use Real California Milk®, cultured to unlock live and active probiotics, and

with lactase added to remove the lactose.

“We’re inviting non-milk drinkers back into the barn, so to speak,” says Miller. “By using non-traditional dairy innovations, we’re hoping to turn people back on to traditional milk. We amplify what people love about milk, remove the lactose, which people don’t love, and it leaves us with real, high quality dairy, but it almost tastes like a new drink.”

In addition to the previous Probiotic Cold Brew and Clean Label Creamer products, Cold-Pressed Creamery will soon release lactose-free probiotic whole milk and chocolate milk products.

perfect for the table or to go.

DeBrand Truffles boast a minimum shelf life of two months at room temperature, with no need for refrigeration or preparation by your staff. All varieties are guaranteed in stock and are available to ship within one to two business days, all year round. DeBrand packaging is also available for purchase, and its truffle wholesale prices are currently set for resellers to earn a margin over 62 percent. DeBrand makes it easy to offer a gourmet chocolate experience year round.

DeBrand recommends carrying an ongoing selection of at least four to six

different truffles to provide a wide selection and an eyecatching display. Its four most popular truffles are Dark Chocolate, Caramel, Peanut Butter and Raspberry. In addition to selling truffles by the piece, they are also available in prepackaged assortments, ideal for holidays, events and when guests are in a hurry.

DeBrand Truffles deliver a high-quality, gourmet chocolate experience that your guests are sure to remember.

Visit JoeFroyo at booth #10216. For more information, go to www.joe froyo.com or call 253.682.8586.

For more information, visit booth #10618.

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Restaurant Daily News Excel Dryer (Cont’d. from p. 1)

the high-speed hand dryer category, and we continue to develop sustainable, costeffective hand-hygiene solutions.

RDN: Some sources discredit the hygienic efficacy of hand dryers. How do you respond?

WG: A common myth about hand dryers is that they spread germs via their warm air currents, but several respected agencies like the Mayo Clinic have dispelled this notion. Published results of their testing confirm that hand dryers present no greater threat than paper towels.

When comparing hand dryer models, the most sanitary option, with its hands-under, touch-free design, is the XLERATOR. Damascus Bakeries (Cont’d. from p. 1)

RDN: What are your Brooklyn Bred Bistro breads, and what makes them different from the competition?

DM: Our Bistro breads include our pizza crusts, our buns and sliders, our soft bread sticks. As for what makes them different, certainly the choosing of ingredients like “00” pizza flour, or sprouted grains adds to the distinction. So does the ‘old-fashioned’ fermentation, virtual stress-free sheeting, proofing, innovative oven technology, coupled with expertise and the true passion to create and innovate.

RDN: Do you have plans to introduce new products from the new bakery?

DM: Yes, of course. Pinsa Romana – CM Systems (Cont’d. from p. 1)

protected against the financial, reputational and health consequences of a food safety incident. Secondly, it improves efficiency and effectiveness in operations, enhancing the operator’s economic profile. Kitchens and restaurants are very hectic, frenetic places, and by having a more innovative food safety system in place, cooks can spend more time focusing on the creativity and proper preparation of food for customers, while managers can spend more time in the front of the house and executives can spend more time on revenue-generating activities instead of housekeeping tasks.

RDN: How is food safety being innovated upon today?

SG: LoRaWAN-based sensors are a

Yamato (Cont’d. from p. 1)

connect the display to the platform.

The touch-free tare on the display keeps food preparation swift and sanitary, allowing taring after each ingredient with only a wave of the hand. The WPS scale provides restaurants with a tool to quickly and accurately measure ingredients while they are preparing meals. This reduces any time spent on individual measurement cups or even loss of money for ingredients that were

We even offer two options to take hygiene to the next level. Our HEPA Filtration System filters 99.97 percent of potentially present bacteria at 0.3 microns from the air stream to provide a hygienic hand drying experience with the added benefit of improved air quality in the room. Our antimicrobial Wall Guards, with Microban® technology built-in, inhibit bacterial growth that can cause stains on walls and surfaces. Both options are ideal for high-traffic restrooms and because they are so easy to clean, they’re a sound choice for restaurant environments, in particular.

RDN: What’s new at Excel? Do you have any product announcements you’d like to make?

WG: Excel Dryer continues to enhance

thicker, 24 hour fermented Romanstyled pizza crusts are on the drawing board. As is a sandwich-sized line of hearth-baked Focaccia di Recco, which is known in the Ligurian section of Italy as the authentic Focaccia bread. And why not a Brooklyn Bialy, perhaps reinvented in shape, and topped with today’s flavors?

RDN: What new technologies may be part of this process?

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the user experience and provide smarter products that are easier to maintain. To that end, we’ve recently announced an expanded and enhanced product line. Enhanced standard features include adjustable speed and sound controls, adjustable heat settings (high, medium, low and off), an externally visible Service LED and multivoltage options.

If you’ve seen any of our recent advertisements, you’ll see our claim that we offer ‘the most options and complete line of accessories in the industry.’ That’s not just lip service; our products truly are the most customizable on the market, meeting customer needs, requirements and aesthetic preferences.

WG: A restaurant’s restrooms are the ultimate reflection of the restaurant itself.

To a customer, paper towels littered on the floor or clogging the toilets signal an unclean establishment. Our high-efficiency hand dryers eradicate these problems, providing an environmentally friendly alternative while cutting maintenance costs by a typical 95 percent over paper towels – and it’s not uncommon for a mid-sized restaurant to save around $5,000 per year. What’s more, XLERATOR dries hands three times faster than conventional hand dryers, meaning less time in the restroom and more at the table.

RDN: Why did you choose Clifton, New Jersey, for your new bakery?

sandwiches with them.

RDN: How do your products benefit restaurants?

DM: We needed a lot of space, the kind of space that, in earnest, is simply not available in Brooklyn. You can take the baker out of Brooklyn, but you can’t take the Brooklyn out of the baker!

RDN: What else do you envision from your new Clifton bakery?

Visit Excel Dryer at booth #3476. For more information, go to www.excel dryer.com, call 800.255.9235 or email sales@exceldryer.com.

RDN: Looks like you, your family and your company will be busy for a while.

DM: We are all committed to our future, just as we are committed to honoring our heritage. We’re all excited about, and committed to 2030, when we will celebrate our 100th birthday as a company.

Bread is about texture, aroma, flavor and the bite. Bread is also about family and friends, nourishment and life. We are all bakers at heart – doughboys and doughgirls – bred to bread, hopefully happily ever after.

DM: Plenty of new technologies involved, but some old-fashioned ones as well. We are ready to raise the bar, and to do that we will be raising the dough. In this Clifton bakery we have installed an automated Biga system which can create dough-sponges that will ferment upwards of 24 hours, even 48 hours where needed.

DM: As I said, we have lots of space there, so we will have lots of options, whether that means looking to bake other authentic and edgy Bistro breads, or morph into baking other baked goods, like cookies, cakes or snacks. Maybe even look to convey the crusts and breads from our ovens into secondary processing rooms where we can top them, fill them, fry them, even make delicious

RDN: Is innovation in food safety mostly about ‘building a better mouse-

SG: If you can legitimately build a better mousetrap, you can design entirely new approaches to trapping mice.

Think about the Internet of Things (IoT). Many organizations don’t realize what’s possible once you have a better device available to really make use of their own IoT. You can take these superior sensors, connect them across an organization, and suddenly, executives can ask questions that were impossible to even imagine just a few years ago.

You can see if this refrigeration unit has been fluctuating and needs maintenance, if stores in Region X are not doing as well in completing tasks and needs investigating, or if a single specific employee needs more training. It starts with building a better mousetrap, but it ends up building a better business.

For more information, visit booth #9442, go to www.compliancemate.com, call 678.526.4628 or email info@compliance mate.com.

About Yamato Corporation Yamato’s commercial division is a global leader in weighing scales for restaurants, food processing, delis, catering and other retail markets. The commercial line consists of a large selection of digital, mechanical, bench and platform scales.

Yamato offers a variety of scales, including wash down, legal-for-trade

For more information, visit booth #3937 or go to www.yamatoamericas.com.

great example of an innovation beginning to influence food safety. LoRa is a brand-new communication technology, like Bluetooth. ComplianceMate’s own old sensors were Bluetooth-based, and they were very stable, solid devices that served us and our customers well.

However, we decided to see what more we could do to improve performance and reduce costs. We found this in the new LoRa technology, which is only a few years old, and we discovered that it costs less, works longer, provides a more reliable signal, maintains better data integrity and protects data security better than anything else in the marketplace. We worked with a world-class engineering company, Laird, to build a better sensor incorporating LoRa technology.

not being measured at all. The WPS requires less time for cleaning with its touch-free display and removable stainless-steel platform.

The NSF approved WPS scale runs on AA batteries (not included) or AC adaptors (included). It features three wireless channels to choose from.

Multiple functions are available including Weighing, Hold Function and Unit Toggle. Units consist of pounds-ounces (fractional), pounds-ounces (decimal) and kilograms and can be read easily

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on the LCD display in 1-inch characters.

Visit Damascus Bakeries at booth #8129.

For more information, contact David Mafoud at dm@damascusbakery.com, or go to www.damascusbakery.com or www.brooklynbred.com.

RDN: What can restaurants do to foster more innovation themselves?

SG: The easiest way is to work with partners who focus on innovation and continuous improvement. But don’t just take their word for it: try out their solutions before committing to them. Just by testing their solution, many restaurants will discover which of their current food safety processes are unnecessary or inefficient, and that will uncover opportunities for internal innovation.

Ultimately, innovation isn’t really optional when moving at the speed of today’s markets; doing what it takes to stay ahead of the curve is the only way to avoid getting left behind.

and NSF listed. Yamato’s automatic division provides combination weighers, checkweighers and depositors addressing virtually any packaging application.

Yamato provides the best support and industry training for your investment with the Genuine Yamato Parts & Service program. Yamato is fully committed to its customers and machines.

Sunday, May 19, 2019

Restaurant Daily News Vertullo Imports (Cont’d. from p. 1)

PV: We import everything from mandarin oranges to truffle peelings. Fruits, vegetables, condiments, sauces, IQF frozen vegetables, appetizers and pasta, rice, grains and more. That list is always expanding.

RDN: What’s one thing you want people to know about Vertullo?

PV: I want people to know that we scour the globe in search of the highCarla’s Pasta (Cont’d. from p. 1)

Sodexo in North America. This covers a lot – core menus for all the various business segments, new service development and product specifications are the main buckets of activity. I have a team of 18 awesome chefs, dieticians and experts that manage it all for me. Each year, on average, we create over 1,000 new recipes and manage over 60 core menus for 5,000 locations across North America.

RDN: How would you describe your working relationship with Carla’s Pasta?

Marra Forni (Cont’d. from p. 1)

you’re looking for equipment that is accompanied by great customer service, logistical assistance, post-delivery support, engineering assistance, a tech service department, the cost of a domestic oven might sound expensive to you but it’s definitely going to get you the best return on your investment in the long term.

RDN: What are some of the reasons domestically manufactured ovens cost more?

FM: Not everybody understands that quality comes with a price. If one company has a staff of 60 to 70 people, and another only has a tenth of that labor force, that should tell you who the best option is going to be. All the additional Smitty Bee Honey (Cont’d. from p. 1)

marketed like it is today. It wasn’t until the 1940s when sugar was rationed to support the war effort, that honey was turned to as an alternative sweetener. The popularity of honey grew, and the industry was born.

Throughout the next 30 years, Louis grew his family orientated business into one of the most respected honey producers in southwest Iowa.

Lavern Schmitz worked for his fatherin-law, Louis, after returning from the Korean War. Lavern saw the opportuniAardvark Straws (Cont’d. from p. 4)

straws, Aardvark Paper Straws decompose in just 45-90 days. All materials that make up an Aardvark Straw – adhesive, inks and papers – are also “edible.”

In 2018, Hoffmaster®, a leading U.S. manufacturer of premium disposable tableware for restaurants, hospitals and the foodservice industry,

est-quality imported items. We know that every step is critical, from product development to procurement to delivery. Our staff of culinary trained chefs, quality assurance and marketing and sales teams boast decades of experience successfully importing the highest quality items from around the world.

While our brand is still in its infancy, our staff consists of seasoned experts that have been doing this for a very long time.

RDN: What sets Vertullo Imports apart

RM: It’s one of the best. Relationshipwise fantastic; strategic conversations that are also timely from a consumer perspective. Plant-based is a great example; Carla’s saw the trend and knew we were working on solutions. So they came to us not just with one solution, but several.

Product is really the differentiator. Who makes better pasta on a large scale? I’m kind of over doing blind product cuttings in this space; there isn’t really any competition.

from its competition?

PV: Above all else, we understand the importance of quality, flavor and consistency. Our eyes are on crop sensitivity, currency fluctuations and trade regulations. In addition to our culinary trained, U.S.-based staff, we also have staff overseas headquartered in Europe to interface directly with suppliers on quality and logistical issues.

RDN: Can you tell our readers about some of the new items you’re currently

Carla’s Pasta and Sodexo?

RM: I always judge a partnership by each side doing what they said they were going to do. Carla’s nails this one, even when we may have had blips on our side.

Yes, we are the customer, but Carla’s makes us better partners.

RDN: What key attributes have encouraged such a strong partnership for the last 10 years?

RDN: What do you view as the biggest strength between the partnership with

RM: Great products, competitive pricing, clean label. Some partners do some

value that a company provides is going to add to the cost. Of course, you have to do your research to make sure the company really provides that extra value, but once you do that, the budget should not dictate the decision to buy a good piece of equipment.

up the upfront investment.

If you were to ever have an issue, you’re not dealing with an importer, you’re dealing with a manufacturer right here in the United States. Most artisanal ovens are built in Italy. If something goes wrong, you have to call Italy. If something goes wrong with one of our ovens, we can provide much faster service from our warehouse in Maryland.

RDN: What are the main reasons you feel domestic is the best way to go?

FM: When we think of import versus domestic, number one, we’re in the United States. We should support our own companies. Second, an importer doesn’t necessarily know the American manufacturing standards. We provide ETL and NSF certifications. It takes years to get certified. It’s too easy for a company that has not gone through the certification process to provide a cheaper product because they didn’t have to put

RDN: What would you say to a restaurateur who is contemplating this big decision?

FM: A restaurateur might say, ‘Your product is too expensive.’ Well, I could say the same thing. A pizza in Italy is 4 euro, a pizza in the United States is an average of 12 to 20 dollars. I don’t think you’re ripping me off. I’m not comparing the cost of pizza in Italy. I don’t live

ties with honey early on and started his own producing operation in the mid 1950s. Nicknamed “Smitty” in grade school, he named his new business Smitty Bee Honey. The business grew through the 1960s, ‘70s and ‘80s. Doug Schmitz, Lavern’s son, worked beside his father, learning the trade as well.

Doug then started his own operation in the late 1970s, which he grew into a lucrative honey producing business throughout the 1980s and ‘90s. In the early 1990s, commercial agriculture changed the natural landscape and honey production yields decreased

every year, as the majority of southwest Iowa was converted to corn and soybeans. To further diversify, Doug and his family turned their attention to packing honey for farmer’s markets and craft shows. The packaging business grew strong through the 1990s, while honey production struggled. Over 20 years, Smitty Bee grew from a small honey producer and packer to one of the nation’s fastest growing honey processors, packaging over 20 million pounds of honey per year.

Smitty Bee Honey packages different types of honey for all industry sec-

acquired Aardvark Straws to add to its premium portfolio of environmentally responsible, disposable tabletop products.

lished in 1947, is the platform company for the Hoffmaster Group, Inc.® Foodservice Division.

About Hoffmaster Hoffmaster is a one-stop source offering a complete line of premium disposable paper tableware items for restaurants, hospitals and a wide variety of other service industries. The company, estab-

About Aardvark Straws Aardvark paper straws were introduced in 2007 in response to a growing antiplastic movement. Precision Products Group, Inc., created an environmentally friendly straw based off of the original paper straw invented in 1888 by Marvin

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working on?

PV: We’re currently extending our line of Greek olives to include Sliced Kalamata Olive Rings and a Country Olive Mix. We’ll also be introducing a White Balsamic Vinegar, Rice Wine Vinegars and Sesame Oil in the coming months.

Visit Vertullo Imports at booth #5645. For more information, go to www.vertullo imports.com, call 516.222.6220 or email customerservice@seviroli.com.

of these, some do them all – very few do them all well. Carla’s does! Plus – innovation (that is able to be acted on and deployed into the business) – and that hard to quantify family feel to the relationship.

RDN: What does the future partnership look like for Carla’s Pasta and Sodexo?

RM: If it’s anything like the last 10 years, it will still be awesome. If it improves somehow, it will be amazing.

Visit Carla’s Pasta at booth #707.

in Italy or Europe. I live in the United States. So, the cost of doing business is more expensive, the cost of labor is more expensive, the overhead, the liability insurance, everything is more expensive.

RDN: What are some of the additional benefits of working with your company?

FM: We like to think of ourselves as a young company, but very experienced.

We offer countless customization options. You can really choose your own design. We stand by our product. We’re changing the industry and we definitely pride ourselves on being leaders in our industry.

Visit Marra Forni at booth #2068. For more information, go to www.marraforni.com.

tors. These markets include commercial food manufacturing, foodservice and retail. Honeys are carefully selected from specific botanical or geographical areas from around the world and blended to match customer specifications. Exotic and rare varietals such as Washington Raspberry, California Sage and Mexican Avocado honey are just a few of the honeys that can be sourced. Recent trends show that customers are looking for new and trendy honey items that will stand out from the rest.

Visit Smitty Bee Honey at booth #10023.

Stone. Today, Aardvark offers printed straws, cake pop sticks and Eco-Flex paper straws that are earth and marine friendly, naturally degradable, FDA/EU compliant, compostable and made in the USA. For more information, visit booth #2788, go to www.hoffmaster.com or www .aardvarkstraws.com, email marketing@ hoffmaster.com or call 800.327.9774.