ENERGY STAR^® Commercial Food Service Newsletter

The 2010 ENERGY STAR Awards Ceremony

On March 18, 2010, 110 organizations, selected from more than 17,000 ENERGY STAR partners, were recognized at the 2010 ENERGY STAR Awards Ceremony for their leadership and commitment to energy efficiency.

Congratulations to our three ENERGY STAR Commercial Food Service (CFS) partners that were honored at this year’s ceremony!

ITW Food Equipment Group (ITW FEG) was awarded the ENERGY STAR Award for Sustained Excellence for their year-after-year commitment to protecting the environment through their continued support of the ENERGY STAR specification development process and their education of the market about the benefits of ENERGY STAR qualified equipment.



Manitowoc Foodservice received the ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year Award, recognizing Manitowoc's recent accomplishments in expanding its production of ENERGY STAR qualified equipment and promoting the ENERGY STAR.

Continental Refrigerator won an ENERGY STAR Award for Excellence for its efforts to promote ENERGY STAR qualified commercial food service equipment.

For more information about 2010 ENERGY STAR Award Winners, including the full report Profiles in Leadership: 2010 ENERGY STAR Award Winners, visit: www.energystar.gov/awards.

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ENERGY STAR Marketing Assistance

EPA would like to remind all ENERGY STAR partners about the importance of protecting the ENERGY STAR brand in marketing materials and signage, including exhibit booths. All stakeholders and program participants have committed to follow the identity guidelines and should request clarification whenever necessary. To refresh your knowledge of appropriate logo use, please read the four-page Brief Guidelines to Using the ENERGY STAR Marks Correctly document (www.energystar.gov/logouse).

If you have any questions about using the ENERGY STAR mark in booth designs or marketing materials, or would like a complete review of these materials, please submit your questions to Jeffrey Clark or Natalie Chadwick by e-mailing: commercialfoodservice@energystar.gov.

As part of our efforts to strengthen the integrity of the ENERGY STAR brand, ENERGY STAR team representatives will review and record logo violations in booths and marketing materials at the NRA Show 2010.

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ENERGY STAR Enhanced Testing and Verification

The ENERGY STAR products program has grown to encompass products in more than 60 categories and is used by millions of Americans in selecting products that help them save money and protect the environment. To ensure that ENERGY STAR remains a trusted symbol for environmental protection through superior efficiency, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) are pursuing enhancements for product qualification and verification. These include: qualification prior to labeling, laboratory requirements, and comprehensive verification testing.

Details on this program are available on the ENERGY STAR Web site at: www.energystar.gov/testingandverification.

EPA encourages stakeholders to participate in future stakeholder meetings and to offer comments by e-mailing: ENERGYSTARVerificationProgram@energystar.gov.
Comments on the proposed requirements presented on April 1, 2010 are due to ENERGY STAR no later than April 30, 2010.

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Look for the next Commercial Food Service Newsletter in July!

NRA Show 2010

Una Song and Chris Kent, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ENERGY STAR program managers, will be attending the National Restaurant Association (NRA) Show 2010, May 22 to 25 in Chicago, IL. Both will be giving presentations at the Conserve Solutions Center, including an information session on Monday May 24, at 10:00 AM, titled, Sustainability: Put more "green" in your pocket! In addition, if you would like to set up an individual meeting with EPA at this year's NRA Show, please e-mail Jeffrey Clark (jclark@icfi.com) with two or three suggested meeting times and the topic you would like to discuss.

The ENERGY STAR team will also be reviewing how partners use the ENERGY STAR at this event. See article below for further details.

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Partner Spotlight: Supply & Equipment Foodservice Alliance (SEFA)

SEFA is a nationwide network of leading supply and equipment dealers and manufacturers. Founded in 1986 by Tedde Reid, SEFA has grown to be one of the industry’s leading CFS buying, marketing, and training groups. SEFA members are independently owned and operated CFS equipment dealers that promote and sell equipment from a wide variety of CFS manufacturers including ENERGY STAR CFS partners.

SEFA became an ENERGY STAR partner in June 2008 and nearly one-third of all SEFA members have also joined ENERGY STAR since then. These SEFA members are listed on the ENERGY STAR "Where to Buy" Web page and promote ENERGY STAR qualified CFS equipment to their customers.

SEFA member, Kessenich’s, works closely with Wisconsin's Focus on Energy (FOE)—a winner of a 2010 ENERGY STAR Award for Sustained Excellence—to promote FOE cash incentives for ENERGY STAR qualified equipment to their customers. SEFA offers Kessenich’s promotional materials, training, and group purchasing power for the CFS equipment.

This four-way partnership between SEFA, FOE, Kessenich’s, and ENERGY STAR, helps Kessenich’s boost its bottom line, increase energy efficiency in Wisconsin, and protect the environment. These efforts could not succeed without SEFA’s support of the ENERGY STAR program.

Learn more about this SEFA partner's success with the Kessenich’s Ltd. Case Study.

To learn more about SEFA, visit: www.sefa.com.

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Congratulations to Kitchen Innovation Award Recipients

The National Restaurant Association (NRA) recently announced the recipients of the 2010 Kitchen Innovations (KI) Award. Award recipients are granted exclusive access to the KI Pavilion at the NRA Show to showcase their KI equipment and receive national attention for their groundbreaking products.

Congratulations to the ENERGY STAR CFS partners that were among the award recipients, including:

• Alto-Shaam, Inc.
• Champion Industries
• Ecolab
• Henny Penny Corporation
• ITW Food Equipment Group (Hobart)
• Manitowoc Foodservice (Merrychef)
• Middleby (Marshall and Southbend)

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A New Look for the CFS Web site!

EPA recently updated the ENERGY STAR consumer-facing Web pages to improve navigation and update the Web site's look and feel. Some additions include tabbed browsing and easy to find resources in the top right corner of each Web page, such as product lists, savings calculators, and the “Where to Buy” CFS dealer list. Check out the new ENERGY STAR CFS Web site at: www.energystar.gov/cfs.

EPA hopes this new format will make visits to the ENERGY STAR Web site even more useful. Please offer any suggestions to improve the Web site by e-mailing: commercialfoodservice@energystar.gov.

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Hobart Center for Foodservice Sustainability Grant Now Available

The Hobart Center for Foodservice Sustainability (HCFS) is accepting applications for a $5,000 grant that will honor the most innovative and best-executed food service or food retail sustainability project of the year (restaurant, school, hospital, grocery store, etc.).

The grant recipient will be announced at the 2010 Greenbuild Expo held November 16 to 19, 2010, in Chicago, IL.

The deadline for submissions is August 31, 2010. Additional information is available at: www.hcfsforum.com.

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