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The Community Table

A foodservice blog by professionals, for professionals.

The TundraFMP Community Table is a digital hub where foodservice experts, equipment manufacturers, and business owners come together to share restaurant industry insights.

Each month, we highlight everything from new business practices to old industry secrets with feedback from you, the people who know your industry best.

The Pro-Know: Resources for Service Techs
Diversified Foodservice Supply Appoints Lev Peker as Chief Executive Officer

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August 11, 2025

Diversified Foodservice Supply Appoints Lev Peker as Chief Executive Officer

Diversified Foodservice Supply (DFS), a leading provider of equipment, supplies, and parts to the foodservice industry, is pleased to announce the appointment of Lev Peker as Chief Executive Officer.

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Little Details, Big Impression — How To Impress In-Person Guests

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July 29, 2025

Little Details, Big Impression — How To Impress In-Person Guests

As in-person dining continues to rebound, guests are walking through your doors with higher expectations than ever. They’re not just judging the food — they’re soaking in every detail of the experience. The good news? You don’t need a full remodel to wow them. It’s often the smaller touches that make the biggest impression.

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Grilling Season Essentials for Restaurants

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June 20, 2025

Grilling Season Essentials for Restaurants

Summer is here, and that means grilling season is in full swing. Whether you're running a fast-casual spot or a full-service kitchen, grilled menu items are a seasonal favorite that customers crave when the temperature rises.

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How to Reduce Turnover and Keep Your Best Employees

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May 15, 2025

How to Reduce Turnover and Keep Your Best Employees

High turnover isn’t just frustrating — it’s expensive. In the restaurant industry, it leads to increased training costs, inconsistent service, and lost productivity. But it’s not inevitable. With the right strategies, restaurant operators can create a workplace where employees want to stay.

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5 Essential Products Every Franchise Needs for Consistency

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April 22, 2025

5 Essential Products Every Franchise Needs for Consistency

In the competitive world of restaurant franchising, consistency isn't just important — it's your brand. When customers walk through the doors of your restaurant, whether it's in Seattle or Miami, they expect the same quality, taste, and experience they've come to love. This builds trust, strengthens your brand, and turns a passerby into a repeat customer.

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LaunchPad NRO Program: Streamlining Restaurant Openings

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February 4, 2025

LaunchPad NRO Program: Streamlining Restaurant Openings

Opening a new restaurant is more than just unlocking the doors and welcoming your first guests. It's an intricate dance of countless moving pieces: staff training, code compliance, interior setup, menu preparation, and perhaps most crucially, ensuring you have every single tool and supply needed to serve your customers.

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How to Speed Up Service During a Rush

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October 31, 2024

How to Speed Up Service During a Rush

Ask any restaurant owner to picture a rush, and they will answer the same: a packed dining room, tickets piling up, a staffing issue, and the clock ticking. Busy times may be great for business, but they can also test your team's ability to deliver quality food quickly. If they fail, your restaurant may have lost a customer forever.

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Game Day Dilemmas: Preparing Your Restaurant for Sports Crowds

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September 6, 2024

Game Day Dilemmas: Preparing Your Restaurant for Sports Crowds

Game days are both a blessing and a challenge. The influx of passionate sports fans can significantly boost any restaurant’s revenue, but it also puts immense pressure on staff and resources. From the gridiron to the grill, preparation is the key to success. The following tools and tips can turn game-day chaos into a well-oiled machine of efficiency and customer satisfaction.

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How can your restaurant adapt to the snacking trend?

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July 9, 2024

How can your restaurant adapt to the snacking trend?

If you've spent any time on social media recently, you've probably noticed the rise of TikTok trends such as "little treat culture" and "girl dinner" over traditional full meals. Driven by busy lifestyles, today's customers crave quick, visually attractive, inexpensive treats that fit their on-the-go lives.

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Elevate Your Catering Game: Essential Equipment for a Successful Summer Season

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June 4, 2024

Elevate Your Catering Game: Essential Equipment for a Successful Summer Season

With Memorial Day in our rearview mirror, the season of weddings, graduation parties, and family reunions is upon us. As a catering professional, that means it's officially game time. Your calendar is packed with events, and the pressure is on to deliver the season's best flavors — and memories — to your clients.

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Optimizing kitchen storage with Cambro

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April 25, 2024

Optimizing kitchen storage with Cambro

Whether you're commanding a commercial kitchen or putting up orders from a converted VW bus, every back-of-house seems to lack the same thing: adequate storage. But finding more space through a costly remodel or relocation disrupts your business. In this fast-paced industry, profitability depends on efficiency. How can you make every inch of space work for your business? With smart, scalable storage solutions designed to meet the demands of the food service industry.

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Slips, Slides, and Safety: Your Guide to Staying Upright During Wet Floor Season

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December 1, 2023

Slips, Slides, and Safety: Your Guide to Staying Upright During Wet Floor Season

Hang on tight — we're sliding into the busiest time of year! During the holiday season, it's tempting to focus on the more exciting aspects of the restaurant business, like festive decor, holiday menus, and the surge in reservations. But there's an undercurrent we can't ignore — the increased frequency of wet floors. The season brings a whirlwind of activity, but mixing increased traffic with the unpredictability of winter weather gets us a perfect recipe for slips, spills, and falls.

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Water Conservation in Restaurants: A Sustainable Step Forward

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September 27, 2023

Water Conservation in Restaurants: A Sustainable Step Forward

Would your restaurant turn a profit if you were charged for the air your customers and staff breathed? Would it be fair to have to pay for the natural light that comes through your windows?

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How Restaurant Owners Can Fix Worker Turnover

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August 29, 2023

How Restaurant Owners Can Fix Worker Turnover

When you think of your employees, what’s the first thing that comes to mind? Gratitude? Contempt? Frustration? Without laborers, you might not have a business. Without your business laborers might not have a job.

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How To Create A Successful Food Preparation Station: Insights from Chipotle

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July 10, 2023

How To Create A Successful Food Preparation Station: Insights from Chipotle

The worlds of sports and foodservice have more crossover than you might think. Sure, you're not exactly competing with other food chains in the same way the Cowboys compete against the Eagles, but what you are doing is playing to win. After all, you don't open a restaurant expecting to lose.

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Rethinking convention and convection with Cadco

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May 11, 2023

Rethinking convention and convection with Cadco

If you ever worked in a commercial kitchen, you've heard one or more of these phrases. Why? Because conventional knowledge is how we learn in new environments, and the world of commercial cooking is no exception.

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Restaurant aesthetics and how style relates to success

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April 17, 2023

Restaurant aesthetics and how style relates to success

Do you remember how Pizza Hut looked in the '90s and 2000s? It was iconic. Each table was lit by hanging stained glass lampshades with the words PIZZA HUT emblazoned on the sides. Blood-red plastic cups filled with Pepsi were enjoyed in wooden booths with puffy cushions.

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Water waste and the power of conservation

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March 20, 2023

Water waste & the power of conservation

Our first blog covered food waste its contribution to restaurant losses nationwide, but there is an even more precious resource wasted in our kitchens — water.

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Shelf life and food storage with Cambro

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February 9, 2023

Shelf life and food storage with Cambro

Last month, we tackled food waste and how to circumvent billions in industry losses with proper portion controls, but there's more to food waste than meets the eye. In fact, only 45% of food waste occurs at the preparatory stage. The other 55% occurs at the storage and consumption stages.

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Food waste and portion control with Vollrath

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January 25, 2023

Food waste and portion control with Vollrath

According to the USDA, America's restaurant industry loses $162 billion annually in food waste costs. In an industry with average profit margins of 3-5%, that is a staggering amount.

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