We are honored and proud to announce that Foodservice Equipment & Supplies has named The Wasserstrom Company the 2024 winner of the magazine’s acclaimed Dealer of the Year Award. “We are so grateful all our associates continue to be recognized for the great work they are doing to support our customers, vendors, and each other.
Do you love Amazon’s Alexa so much that you miss her when you go on vacation? Well, that could be a thing of the past with the introduction of Amazon for Hospitality. The introduction of the new service will put voice-enabled Amazon Echo devices in hotel rooms. The in-room devices will be pre-programmed for a variety […]
School’s out and kids everywhere have begun looking for summer jobs. This can be both a blessing and a burden for the foodservice industry. Teen workers can help fill in shift gaps at wages that are attractive for employers. But managing teens is not without its share of potential problems. Fortunately, a little advance planning […]
Did you have a lemonade stand as a kid? Did you have a permit? These days, not having a permit could get you busted. This very thing happened recently in Denver. The police showed up and shut down a lemonade stand that was being run by two young boys aged six and four. Even worse, […]
A ghost kitchen (sometimes also called a “ghost restaurant“) is a foodservice operation that is meant for delivery only. In other words, these businesses have no dining room. In many cases, you cannot even do carryout from these businesses. It is a delivery only business and it is tightly aligned with new online food delivery […]
Television personality, author and celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain has died at age 61. The cause of death has been reported as suicide. CNN confirmed Bourdain’s passing with a statement: “It is with extraordinary sadness we can confirm the death of our friend and colleague, Anthony Bourdain. His love of great adventure, new friends, fine food […]
Thirty-five years ago, in 1983, The Wasserstrom Company was named Dealer of the Year by Foodservice Equipment Specialist magazine (that would later evolve into the current Foodservice Equipment & Supplies magazine). We thought it was fitting to revisit this milestone as we hit the quarter century mark. Many of the faces shown in the article have […]
Fast food favorite Wendy’s has announced a new plan for sourcing its tomatoes to provide the freshest produce in the business. Wendy’s is already well-known for its “fresh, never frozen” beef (and their sassy social media jabs at rival McDonald’s). Now the fast-food giant is announcing its plans to source vine-ripened tomatoes for its North […]
You may have heard the term “Food Hall” thrown around recently. But unless you have one in your town or have visited one yourself, you may be a bit confused as to what exactly constitutes a food hall. The term “food hall” has its roots in the UK where it is used to describe a […]
The European Commission is proposing a ban on 10 single-use plastic items that it says make up 70% of the trash that ends up in European waterways and beaches. While this is not a measure that is aimed exclusively at restaurants and other foodservice providers, those types of businesses will clearly be the most affected. […]
Recently, we published an article about pre-fabricated building methods and pondered if this was the future of restaurant construction. Well, as it turns out, it may just be a trend that owes a lot to the past. Just ask Larry Cultrera. He is a connoisseur of the diner as an American architectural art form. “Companies […]
Red Nose Day was launched in the UK as a way to focus attention on the issue of childhood poverty. As part of the Comic Relief charity started in 1985, the Red Nose Day event has raised over $1 billion since the first event was held in 1988. At Wasserstrom, community is one of our […]
Circle or square? Angles or curves? Does it matter what shapes are used to layout and decorate your restaurant’s space? According to these researchers from the Ohio State University, the answer is definitely “yes.” And this has important implications for restaurant design. Dr. Stephanie Liu and Graduate Assistant Vanja Bogicevic examined how the physical shapes […]
The move to our new offices in Whitehall has allowed us to try out some new and different things. Our latest experiment is our brand new community garden! Over the last several weeks, our facilities crew created 6 raised garden plots behind our new building. A call went out for volunteers and before you can […]
Designing and building a restaurant is an expensive and potentially risky undertaking. And mistakes that only get caught after a foodservice space is completed can be costly to remedy. But what if you could step into the completed space and look around even before construction begins? That’s where virtual reality can really make a difference. […]
In typical Columbus fashion, the weather forecast called for scattered thunderstorms – but to our relief the mid-morning sun greeted us as we pulled into The Medallion Club in Westerville, OH. We entered the Mixed Grille and immediately saw why it is such a highly regarded establishment: an expansive formal dining room with a visible […]
Google recently held its annual developer conference where it announced all the new things it is working on. None of these garnered more buzz than the announcement of Google Duplex. Duplex is sort of an extension of personal digital assistants such as Google’s own Home product or Amazon’s Alexa or Apple’s Siri. The upgrade here […]