DSR of the Year

The Dealer Sales Rep of the Year award recognizes the best of the best in customer service and sales.

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Click here for a list of past winners.


Establish trust and close quickly: a conventional sales strategy that Nick Taylor, CFSP, mastered during his 15-year run in retail sales for a chain mattress store and continues to apply today as director of strategic accounts for KaTom Restaurant Supply Inc., a foodservice equipment and supplies dealer based in Kodak, Tenn. Indeed, he credits the latter part of that strategy —
the close — as a dominant factor to his success at KaTom during the past seven years.

Foodservice Equipment & Supplies named Nick Taylor of Tennessee-based KaTom its 2024 DSR of the Year. Taylor is the 24th person to receive FE&S DSR of the Year Award.

Hall embodies every quality commonly associated with top salespeople: charisma, confidence, passion, drive, empathy and problem-solving skills.

You’ll forgive Marcus Calverley if he’s a bit impatient, but he’s learned the hard way that life can be unpredictable and that second chances are to be seized and fully savored.

Foodservice Equipment & Supplies named Marcus Calverley of Kessenich’s in Madison, Wis., its 2022 DSR of the Year.

If you would like to know what makes Gordon Marsh a top-flight dealer sales representative, and how he generates so much repeat business for Edward Don & Company, this anecdote goes a long way toward explaining it.

“You grow the most when you are not comfortable,” says Bolt Bolton, senior account manager at Costa Mesa, Calif.-based Avanti Restaurant Solutions. She’s had to remind herself of that mantra recently as a new client has been pushing her to grow in just that manner — out of discomfort.

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