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.
Yum! Brands, parent company to Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, and KFC, held their annual STAR Awards on May 4, 2021. Wasserstrom was honored to receive not one but two awards, presented remotely this year due to COVID restrictions. STAR is an acronym for “Supplier Tracking, Assessment & Recognition” and awards are presented in a number […]
On November 15, 2019, Wendy’s celebrated its Founder’s Day that coincides with the opening of the first Wendy’s location at 257 East Broad St. in Columbus, Ohio. This year marks an important milestone for the company: It is the 50th anniversary of that original opening. Very few people can claim to have been at the ribbon-cutting […]
If you have ever worked in a commercial kitchen, then you already know that keeping the place clean and organized is a never-ending battle. It becomes even more challenging if you don’t have the right storage accessories to keep everything in its place. Well, that is precisely the situation that the Jewish Community Center of […]
In early November, Seth Wasserstrom (Project Team Manager, DCS and 4th generation Wasserstrom family member), travelled to Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. While in Wilkes-Barre, Seth visited 164 North Canal Street. This is where founder Nathan Wasserstrom and his wife Rebecca lived with three of their eventual twelve children. Nathan and Rebecca lived in Wilkes-Barre in 1901 for […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
Earlier this month, a group of Wasserstrom employees participated in a project with Rebuilding Together of Central Ohio. Rebuilding Together is the nation’s leading nonprofit working to preserve affordable homeownership and revitalize communities. Wasserstrom sponsored a rebuilding project and had 18 associates and family members participate in the project. The project spanned two weekends and […]