MAFSI presented the Tony Award to Tom Johnson of Johnson Commercial Agents, Mendota Heights, Minn. Named in honor of Anthony E. Mazur, this award recognizes an individual who has consistently performed and demonstrated sincere interest, effort, leadership and given time to the welfare and progress of MAFSI and the enhancement of the manufacturers' agents' function and position in the industry.
Tom Johnson is now a voting member of the NSF Joint Committee for Food Equipment, and ISO65 standards development organization that develops sanitation and performance standards for food and beverage equipment. This appointment is an outgrowth of NAFEMs request to NSF as part of Toms multi-year consulting agreement with NAFEM in the field of regulatory relations and standard development. Tom made a presentation titled “Food Safety By Design” at the 2003 FCSI conference; check out his presentation on our website.
Congratulations
to 
for
being awarded the WCCO Radio "Good Neighbor" Award (click here for on
air broadcast). Tom was nominated for this award because of the outstanding
work he has done on the Board of Directors for the Emergency
Foodshelf Network, and assisting the Kids Cafe project which aims to offer
good nutrition to all local children. As part of this broadcast they mentioned
that Tom was the recipient of last years MAFSI
pacesetter award as well.
The JCA
Staff is now ServSafe®
certified! In fact, Tom Johnson has been putting on ServSafe®
seminars for years now, and now all of our Sales team has scored 95% or better
on the ServSafe® exam, making us eligible as trainers of food
safety!
This news will be no
surprise to our current trading partners, but Johnson Commercial Agents has just
received MAFSI Technology
Certification (MTC) for Level
401, Expert Level.
MAFSI has developed a program that sets the standard in how the industry can
communicate and work together seamlessly. MAFSI's Technology Certification
Program provides a roadmap specific to technological applications such as
computer hardware, software applications and communication products. The bottom
line is that JCA has had all of the technology tools in place for years, so we
have immediately reached the highest level of technology certification for
manufacturers agents.
We are very
excited to announce that we have taken on a number of new lines.
If we were going to get back into refrigeration, we wanted to do it in a big way. Hello Master-Bilt ! Besides game changing technology like their reverse cycle defrost, which cuts energy consumption of walkins while significantly reducing temperature fluctuations in walkins, and their strong line of service cases, MasterBilt has significantly broadened their line of prep refrigeration.
We are very proud to represent Lakeside manufacturing. Not only does Lakeside have a tremendously strong core product line offering in their foodservice carts, but they are extremely adept at innovating and customizing where a customer needs it. Along with Lakeside, we now represent Alluserv, which offers a broad line of solutions for the healthcare foodservice market. If you are in the healthcare market, Alluserv is the name to learn about! And if that were not enough, Multiteria is a powerhouse serving line company! Multieria offers the full range of serving lines from the functional school foodservice lineup, to the high end business and industry custom counter, to coffee kiosks that as as functional as they are elegant.
We recently added the Somat, Stero, and Master Disposer lines to our repertoire. This family of solutions puts JCA front and center in the dishroom. Stero really is the choice for any operation that expects functionality and longetivity out of their dishroom equipment. And you really shouldn't be able to say you are ecologically friendly if you aren't handling your food waste with a Somat solution.
Talk about top of the line manufacturers, we now represent Electrolux, and are blown away by the quality of the equipment from combi ovens to the Dito food processing line.
Solaris Steam offers a world class, truly engineered steam platform from steams, to kettles to tilting braising pans, AND offers exceptional customer service.
We have represented SSP for awhile now, but SSP has recently been purchased by Elkay, and now we are starting to get access to a very wide variety of Elkay products, and we will be bringing them to you!
We have
several new exciting products to share with you.
Turbochef is defining a whole new product category in foodservice equipment. TurboChef Rapid Cooking technology offers incredible quality at incredible speeds, without ventilation. If you haven't heard of TurboChef yet, you will soon! The new i series ovens offer unparralleled flexibility and speed.
The Somat Ecorect product line, coupled with the Somat Closed loop Pulper, exctractor can reduce the weight and volume of food waste by 95%, and then turn the output of that process into soil amendment. Talk about an environmentally friendly foodservice solution, wow!
Spring - Have you seen the Convertable Buffet system from Spring yet? What an incredible way to add flexibility to any buffet operation. Their complete line of chafers covers the gambit from canned heat, electric, and induction based heating, so we can fit you design need. And for the coup de gras, check out their chocolate fountain.
To add to
the momentum gained by the now popular
Server Express condiment dispensers from Server
Products, we are proud to introduce the Server
Advantage HOT
condiment Dispenser using the same technology as the Server Express. For
those more traditional Server product users who use our fountain jars, we have
introduced a new Transparent
Hinged Lid that is both cost competitive and very functional
Perlick has
a new addition to its Century Beer System product family. The new Perlick Beer
Pumps, in conjunction with the Perlick
Smart Coupler can dramatically decrease the Total Cost of Ownership on most
remote beer system configurations, and at the same time maintain the highest
quality of beer to the taps.
Check out Wells new line of ventless solutions including the Universal Ventless hood, that can go over quite a large list of electric cooking equipment.
There are so many great videos on YouTube that show off some of the great equipment we represent, that we have set up a YouTube Channel just to make it easy on our customers to see these videos. Click here to see our ever expanding equipment playlist.
Those of you that know our reputation as the technology leaders surely know that we are definitely walking around with the 64G IPads with the Verizon MiFi wireless card. On the Ipad, we have each of our manufacturers complete catalogues, most of their literature, links to their websites and videos, and access to our corporate email, calendars, shared cloud drives and more.
To take advantage of our ventilation expertise, and our interest in being a valued part of the design chain for food service projects, Johnson Commercial has purchased a complete version on AutoCad 2010. We have done solids modelling, custom ventilation design, as well as the usual bar and kitchen layout support that we are know for.
For our
dealer community, we are fully functional and dangerous on AutoQuotes,
and their new AQ360. If you are using Autoquotes on your end, we would be glad to send you any of our
quotes electronically, which will save you a ton of time in data entry. We also
have our AutoQuotes integrated in with our KCL
library, so when we help you with a bar layout, or a kitchen layout, we can
often times generate the quote right from the drawing, and vice-versa.
Speaking of
layout, did you know that JCA now has a wide format plotter, and HP
5000PS? That's right, now our factories don't have to rush Next Day Air
drawings to our consultant partners, rather they send us the drawings
electronically, and we plot them out. This saves the factories money, and gives
our spec partners the information they need, when they need it. It can also do
wide format high res color plottings, so our multi-media capabilities are clear.