New Port Richey, FL . . . Foodservice Equipment & Supplies (FE&S) magazine just released the results of its annual Best in Class Survey last night and this year four Manitowoc Foodservice brands have won prestigious 2016 Overall Best in Class Awards in 6 categories.
The winning Manitowoc Foodservice brands are:
- Cleveland in three categories - Braising Pans/Tilting Skillets, Steam Jacketed Kettles, and Steamers
- Delfield for Chef Counters - Prefabricated
- Lincoln for Conveyor Ovens
- Manitowoc®Ice for Ice Makers
As a group, Manitowoc Foodservice outpaced the competition by being recognized in six (6) categories of Heavy Duty Equipment. Each of our deserving brands has done an exceptional job of demonstrating the reliability and adaptability of their products in the foodservice marketplace.
Throughout the sixteen (16) years that FE&S has championed the Best in Class Survey, Manitowoc Ice has never given up the top spot of Overall Best in Class in their category.
How the survey was conducted?
During the past few months FE&S polled its subscribing foodservice operators, dealers and consultants, asking them to evaluate equipment and supplies manufacturers on seven critical characteristics that impact their purchasing decisions.
These seven performance factors are:
- Product quality
- Product value
- Product design and aesthetics
- Service and support
- Sales representation
- Product inventory and availability
- Product information availability
Those participating in the survey prioritized these factors in order of importance and then rated the individual factories they work with in a given product category on these attributes. The individual results were combined with those from other participants from the category to create a composite score and identify those manufacturers that the readers of FE&S feel are the Best in Class for each of these product categories.
About Manitowoc Foodservice, Inc.
Manitowoc Foodservice, Inc. designs, manufactures and supplies best-in-class food and beverage equipment for the global commercial foodservice market, offering customers unparalleled operator and patron insights, collaborative kitchen solutions, culinary expertise and world-class implementation support and service. Headquartered in the Tampa Bay area, Florida, and operating 19 manufacturing facilities throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia, the company sells through a global network of over 3,000 distributors and dealers in over 100 countries. The company has approximately 5,500 employees and generated sales of $1.57 billion in 2015. Its portfolio of 23 award-winning brands includes Cleveland
™, Convotherm
®, Delfield
®, Fabristeel
™, Frymaster
®, Garland
®, INDUCS
™, Kolpak
®, Koolaire
®, Lincoln
®, Manitowoc
®Beverage Systems, Manitowoc
®Ice, Merrychef
®, Multiplex
®, Servend
®and Welbilt
®. For more information, visit www.mtwfs.com.