MPM Food Equipment Group Announces the Acquisition of Connecticut Food and Weighing Equipment

MPMFEG Extends Its Market Reach to the Northeast,

Adding Experienced Professionals to Its Team

MPM Food Equipment Group (MPMFEG) announced that it has acquired Connecticut Food and Weighing Equipment of Newington, Conn., extending MPMFEG’s market reach, customer base, and service team. The new division will go under the name MPM-Northeast.

“The MPM model has been extremely successful in the Midwest, Mid-Atlantic, and Southeast, steadily adding to its customer base and sales figures,” said Larry Nicholson, President of MPMFEG. “We are looking to continue our progress. The acquisition of Connecticut Food and Weighing Equipment further increases MPMFEG’s market footprint in New England while adding experienced food equipment professionals.

“MPMFEG will use the Connecticut Food and Weighing’s existing marketing structure and team to leverage its model to its customers,” Nicholson continued. “The integration of the Northeast division into our successful business model will take place over the next 12 months. Clients will continue to receive the services that they have come to expect from Connecticut Food and Weighing and will receive additional support and service from the team at MPMFEG.”

Ed Wiernasz will serve as vice president of MPM-Northeast, working closely with MPM Food Equipment Group to increase and heighten their food retail, foodservice, and weighing services in that market. As part of the growth plan put in place, Wiernasz – who has more than 34 years of technical sales and service experience – will lead the company’s northeast sales division in its strategic and day-to-day efforts and will serve as a member of the senior management team.

“We are very excited to welcome Ed to our team here at MPMFEG,” Nicholson said. “Ed’s market leadership and his technical expertise in addressing the needs of the food retail grocery supermarket sector will be invaluable to us as we enter the next phase of growth. The time is right to expand our team.”

About MPM Food Equipment Group (MPMFEG)

Founded in 2003, MPM Food Equipment Group – a private food retail, foodservice, and weighing equipment and supplies dealership – offers the highest quality food equipment and design services while providing the best customer service in the industry. Its customers range from large national grocery chains to family-owned restaurants. The company works closely with each customer every step of the way, from the planning stages to grand openings. MPMFEG works with the industry’s leading manufacturers to ensure their clients the widest selection of products to meet their specific needs. MPMFEG’s paramount goal is to help customers become more competitive and profitable in the marketplace. For further information, visit http://www.mpmfeg.com/

MPM Outfits Commercial Kitchens with the Best Cooking Equipment

From restaurant ranges and convection ovens to char broilers, fryers, and griddles, MPM Food Equipment Group offers a full range of cooking equipment to furnish restaurants, fresh markets, commissaries, and more (including supermarkets). So whether you need combi oven systems and steamers or blast chillers and pizza prep stations, we can get you the right piece at the right price. If you would like to find out how MPM can partner with you, call us at (847) 297-6762 or toll free at (800) 976-6762.

MPM Food Equipment Group gets some Combi Ovens ready for a delivery.

The professionals at MPM have a depth of knowledge on each of our manufacturer’s product lines. And we represent the finest cooking equipment manufacturers in the business. Our fryer brands include Frymaster, Dean, Vulcan, and Pitco. The manufacturers of our restaurant ranges include Garland, U.S. Range, and Southbend. Blodgett, Garland, and Vulcan are some of the brands for our convection ovens.

Providing you with the right pieces of commercial equipment at the right prices is at the heart of what we do. Since we have put in many years of sales and service of these quality products to the marketplace, we understand how these models are made, how they work, and the pros and cons of each.

The manufacturers of our steamers include Cleveland, Accutemp, and Southbend. Our pizza deck ovens have brands such as Blodgett, Bakers Pride, Marsal, and Woodstone. Our char broilers and griddles include such brands as Vulcan and Garland. And our holding and warming products include such brands as Hatco, Cres Cor, and Alto-Shaam.

Whatever your cooking equipment needs, MPM has a solution. Look for our rotisserie ovens, cook and hold ovens, deck ovens, conveyor ovens, pasta cookers, steam kettles and skillets, oil filtration systems, rice cookers, stock pot ranges and hot plates, induction ranges, sandwich grills, crepe machines, mobile cooking carts, and butane stoves. Heck, we even carry hot dog equipment. Our goal is to provide the highest quality products and to follow that up with the highest quality service. Contact MPM or call at (847) 297-6762 or toll free at (800) 976-6762.

MPM Has History Providing Sales and Service to Supermarkets

The professionals at MPM have a long history of ensuring that the equipment needs of supermarkets large and small are satisfied. MPM represents the finest manufacturers in the business. And as one of the largest equipment suppliers to, we have provided sales and service to new stores throughout the United States and Canada. MPM even equipped and serviced the third-largest store in the world (75,000 square feet!), in Chicago’s Lincoln Park neighborhood. Find out how your supermarket can get the best equipment for the best prices by calling MPM at (847) 297-6762 or toll free at (800) 976-6762. If you would prefer, you can click the MPM contact page and submit your information.

New Earth Market, one of MPM's grocery clients.

MPM has also provided sales and service to supermarkets no matter what the size, such as Caputos, Sunset Foods, New Earth Market, Piggly Wiggly, Strack & Van Til, Valli Produce, and Produce World. As we say to our customers, off-load all your food equipment problems on us, and let us come up with the solutions. We even  do some things that the other food equipment suppliers don’t do, like handling service and training.

Call the experts at MPM for your equipment solutions, at (847) 297-6762 or toll free at (800) 976-6762, or submit your contact info at the MPM contact page.

Northfield Community Church Tastes the Future at MPM Food Equipment Open House

Congregation Celebrates “Kitchen Capital Campaign Kickoff” Party at MPM’s Showroom

NORTHBROOK, Ill., May 7, 2012 – The congregation of the Northfield Community Church got a taste of some new things that will be cooking in their kitchen, courtesy of MPM Food Equipment Group.

On Saturday, May 5, MPM hosted an open house for the congregation at its showroom in Northbrook, to showcase some of the great new kitchen equipment that MPM has bid for installation in the church. Find out how you can partner with us by calling us at (847) 297-6762 or toll free at (800) 976-6762. If you would prefer, you can click the MPM contact page and submit your information.

The Church wanted a gathering “to give our congregation a chance to view the type of equipment we want to acquire for our remodeled kitchen, to wine and dine the members, and to collect pledges to the Kitchen Capital Campaign that is going to pay for the project,” said Susan Allen, one of the cohosts of the event, along with Jean Miller.

“Our congregation approved a Kitchen Capital Campaign on April 22,” she said, “and we asked people to come to this event and bring their pledge cards.”

“The Northfield Church wanted to host an event to celebrate the new kitchen,” said David Fallon, MPM’s director of food service sales. “They were going to have it at the church, but they mentioned that the congregation members would want to see some of the equipment. So we decided to have it at the showroom.

“Some of the congregation members made hors d’oeuvres,” he added. “We had some tables, some cocktails, and some music. We helped do some of the hosting while doing an introduction to the new equipment.”

Allen said, “At our annual congregational meeting on May 17, we will ask our congregation to approve the expenditure to remodel the kitchen this summer. This is dependent on how much money we raise between now and then.” She added that she believes the Kitchen Capital Campaign Kickoff did its job to help raise some money.

Ovens at Age 50 Needed Replacing

“Last spring, while preparing for our church’s 60th anniversary celebration,” Allen said, “Jean and I found out that the 50-year-old ovens in our church kitchen were not holding temperature properly and parts were no longer available for them.

“We reached David Fallon,” Allen added. “He came over, looked at our kitchen, and explained to us that it would not be as simple as buying replacement ovens. Ovens are no longer made in the size we have, and venting requirements are different. These changes require other changes in our kitchen, which triggered village requirements for which we have previously been grandfathered.

“Jean and I met with the village to understand what needed to be done to remodel the church kitchen, got approval from our church council and trustees to form a kitchen committee, hire a kitchen designer (Tom Laws), and most recently to launch a Kitchen Capital Campaign to pay for the improvements. Jean and I are hoping that Northfield Community Church will be able to complete this remodel this summer.”

“The new equipment will make the kitchen more efficient” Fallon said. “Tom Laws of Alpha Design did the layout of the new kitchen. This will better enable the church to handle events.”

A Positive Outcome for MPM and the Community

Northfield Community Church will be using this equipment to help fulfill the vision statement of the church, which is “to be an oasis of grace in the heart of the community in which all are welcome.”

Since its founding, MPM has been committed to being engaged in the community as a positive member. Hosting this open house is nothing new, in fact, Fallon said. “We had an open house in the showroom in November, so we’ve done this before.”

Larry Nicholson founded MPM in 2003 with the mission to offer the highest-quality food equipment and design services while providing the best customer service in the industry. “The Northfield Community Church is just a few blocks away,” Nicholson said. “It just makes sense to have this at our showroom so that everyone can see just what they are getting.”

About MPM Food Equipment Group

Representing the finest food equipment manufacturers in the business, MPM teams with a large group of trusted partners to provide support, design, installation, product training and service to deliver projects on time and on budget.

For more information, visit MPM at http://www.mpmfeg.com/ or call 1-800-976-6762.