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FEDA Weekly News for Nov. 10, 2025

Date postedNovember 10, 2025
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Now On Demand: FEDA Finance Education Webinar on Advanced Analytics
Using real-world examples, Prashanth Southekal, managing principal at the DBP-Institute, demonstrated how to apply predictive analytics, regression models and artificial intelligence to advanced finance analytics. This session is available to FEDA members at no cost.  
Pre-Register for Part Two of FEDA's 2025 Supply Chain Education Series
Available at no cost to FEDA members beginning Nov. 18, this on-demand session will illuminate how flexible and agile supply chains can serve as dynamic enablers of growth. Thomas Goldsby, co-executive director of the Global Supply Chain Institute at the University of Tennessee's Haslam College of Business, will examine how top companies are climbing out of operational ruts and harvesting good ideas by tapping existing and prospective members of the supply chain for market growth.
 
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Grady's Latest Project Will Help Feed Colorado and Wyoming Families
The $75 million project will double the Food Bank of the Rockies’ cold storage space for fresh and frozen food, quadruple the size of its kitchen and increase its overall food storage capacity by 67 percent, enabling it to provide up to 10,000 meals for children every day.
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Atlantic Culinary Environments Adds Interior Designer
Bianca Strobel’s passion and creativity make her a strong fit for the dealer’s commitment to innovation and craftsmanship.
 
New Alto-Shaam CFO a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt
Todd Schneider has extensive experience working across the manufacturing sector, including more than a decade at Serigraph, a specialty printing manufacturer. Most recently, he spent more than five years as CFO for Pacur LLC, an advanced medical materials and chemical packaging specialist.
  
ITW Forms Total Kitchen Solutions Project & Design Team
Dan Montgomery, Laura Gutkowski and Shayne Varnum will work to support foodservice consultants and specifiers while representing the manufacturer’s full portfolio of brands.
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Middleby Creates SVP of Investor Strategy and Corporate Development Role
Rebecca Ellin's responsibilities will include evaluating capital allocation priorities, managing capital market initiatives and ensuring strategic communication with investors, analysts and key stakeholders.
RESEARCH & REPORTS
 
Most Restaurants Still Spending on Equipment Even as Customer Traffic Issues Persist
The restaurant industry experienced a moderate decline in September as operators reported negative customer traffic for the eighth consecutive month. The number of operators reporting a year-over-year customer traffic decrease rose from 42 percent in August to 52 percent in September, according to the National Restaurant Association’s monthly Restaurant Performance Index (RPI). With fewer customers coming through their doors, only 34 percent of operators expect higher sales in six months.
U.S. and China Reach Trade Deal to Lower Tariffs
The deal followed a bilateral meeting between President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping in South Korea. As part of the deal, both sides made concessions intended to ease trade tensions. China will halt the flow of precursors used to make fentanyl into the United States, addressing one of the major justifications the Trump administration has used to impose tariffs on foreign goods.
Need a Product Video? FEDA Can Help
Are you a manufacturer needing assistance producing high-quality product videos for the FEDA Video Marketing Center? FEDA can help! We can develop customized product videos on your behalf using a design we’ve created specifically to showcase foodservice equipment and supplies.
Upcoming FEDA and Other Industry Events
2025 FEDA Supply Chain Webinar
Nov. 18, 2025
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Sept. 15-18, 2026
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