Marlowe Parker was promoted to general manager of Deutsche Beverage Technologies, which is part of the Middleby Beverage Group. The Charlotte, N.C.-based company designs and manufactures brewery and other sanitary process equipment.

Overall restaurant industry sales will total $548.3 billion in 2021, per projections from the National Restaurant Association in its 2021 State of the Restaurant Industry report. This is $240 billion less than the $899 billion the NRA projected heading into 2020 – before the pandemic. While the NRA’s projections for 2021 represent a $50.7 billion (10.2%) increase compared to 2020, industry sales this year will remain down significantly from 2019’s total of $615.9 billion.

Restaurant industry veteran Thomas Sacco was appointed president of Dynamic Restaurant Holdings’ two chains: Happy Joe’s Pizza & Ice Cream Parlors and Tony Sacco’s Coal Oven Kitchen.

As part of Singer Equipment Company’s reorganization of its contract division, the Eleverson, Pa.-based dealer has promoted three company veterans. As part of this transition, Rod White will become executive vice president, contracts, and Mark Woolcock will serve as executive vice president. These promotions take effect April 1, 2021.