Foodservice Equipment & Supplies named Banyan Dining Hall at Brigham Young University – Hawaii the recipient of its 2025 Facility Design Project of the Year Award.

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.

There can only be one DSR of the Year — a title awarded to Scott Hall. However, all the DSRs of the Month in 2022 share some of the same traits: career success, a love of the job, and a commitment to their customers that sets them apart. 

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

Foodservice Equipment & Supplies named Scott Hall of Florida-based Innovative Foodservice Group its 2023 DSR of the Year.

Headlined by the feature profile of 2022 DSR of the Year Marcus Calverley, this issue of FE&S shines a spotlight on some of the industry’s best and brightest sales stars.

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.

Foodservice Equipment & Supplies named Gordon Marsh of Edward Don & Company in Woodridge, Ill., its 2021 DSR of the Year.

Recognition as an FE&S DSR of the Month is an earned achievement. This group represents individuals at the top of their game in terms of bringing in sales, expanding existing account business, managing clients and working well with supply chain partners.

Foodservice Equipment & Supplies named Bolt "Jen" Bolton, senior account manager for Avanti Restaurant Solutions, in Folsom, Calif., its 2020 DSR of the Year.