INWOOD, N.Y.—Laundrylux recently announced the addition of industry veteran Corey Simonson to its On-Premises Laundry division. Simonson has been hired as OPL National Sales Manager and is charged with growing business and supporting the Electrolux and Wascomat distribution network.Simonson brings a significant amount of industry and sales experience with him. His laundry industry expertise spans over three decades and includes success in commercial laundry, wholesale, service, and retail environments.Most recently, Simonson served as Director of Midwest and Canadian Sales for a North American dryer manufacturer. Prior to that, he managed regional commercial and route sales for a laundry company....

AMELIA ISLAND, FLA.—Omni Amelia Island Plantation Resort is planning a “Fish to Fork” weekend. The competition, benefiting the James Beard Scholarship Foundation, will be hosted over Mother’s Day weekend, May 5 to 8. Two-time Fish to Fork winner Daven Wardynski, Executive Chef at the Omni resort, will welcome six competing chefs and guests for myriad events throughout the weekend. From taste tests to an actual fishing expedition alongside award-winning chefs, Fish to Fork offers a rare opportunity for gastronomes who have a love for the sea.Guests will have a variety of packages to choose from, including a VIP Package,...

HONG KONG—FCS Computer Systems (FCS), a leading comprehensive hospitality solutions and services provider, announces the launch of e-Laundry, an automated alternative to manual laundry and linen tracking. The new e-Laundry solution is designed to help hotels eliminate paper trails, while gaining greater perspective into real-time inventory, operational needs by shift, and future consumption forecasting. e-Laundry is especially suitable for hotels with more than 300 rooms, mega resorts and casino hotels with an exceptionally heavy demand for laundry services.The hub of e-Laundry is the Management Dashboard, which provides an overview of each day’s performance for laundry and linen activities. Accessible...

NATIONAL REPORT—Hotels around the planet are lining up activities for Earth Hour. The annual event will take place on Saturday, March 19 at 8:30 p.m. local time. The Earth Hour global initiative, now in its 10th year, aims to raise awareness about climate change and the need to find solutions to the world’s environmental problems. Las Vegas Sands, IBEROSTAR Hotels & Resorts, and Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide are a few of the companies with properties participating this year.Sands ECO360°, the global corporate sustainability program of Las Vegas Sands (LVS), is launching its fourth annual “I Will If You...

INWOOD, N.Y.—Commercial laundry equipment provider Laundrylux recently hired Robert Tudisco as its new Vice President of Technical Care and Training. Over the last 15 years, Tudisco has held a variety of technical leadership positions in several service industries that range from textile rental services, to facility critical power infrastructure support and data center infrastructure support services.“Ours is an industry that continues to grow in terms of technology, and with the addition of Robert to our team, we have a leader who will make certain that Laundrylux employees stay informed and ahead of the curve,” said Gary Brown, Vice President...

NEWARK, N.J.—AeroFarms, an indoor, aeroponic farm has grown more than 250 varieties of leafy greens and herbs with consistency and flavor, selling to a wide range of customers including chefs and restaurants. Based in Newark, N.J., AeroFarms serves the New York metro area, using its own unique aeroponic growing system to give leafy greens the perfect environment for uniform and predictable growth. Then they carefully manage that environment, from a proprietary nutrient mist to custom-designed LED lighting, to elevate the flavor and texture of each variety with pinpoint accuracy. Each AeroFarms harvest is monitored with 30,000 data points around...

BOSTON—Imagine a world where restaurants could find the greenest products and most sustainable food from their own distributors. Imagine if these distributors only listed the green products that meet the Green Restaurant Association’s (GRA) environmental standards, and that each product on that list was vetted by the Green Restaurant Association’s team of restaurant sustainability consultants. Imagine that each product would list the environmental standard it meets, along with its GreenPoints score. That world is now here. Up until now, it could be difficult for restaurateurs to find the green products they could rely upon to both work and have a...

NATIONAL REPORT—In an age when locavores rule, trash fish dinners are the new chic, and foodie tourism is trending, it is the perfect time for hotel chefs to enhance their properties’ narrative and take on the issue of food waste. What was hot and trending in 2015? Food waste reduction according to 1,300 chefs surveyed by the National Restaurant Assn. The growing counter culture to food waste is so widespread the Association’s annual What’s Hot List placed food waste reduction right behind hyper local sourcing in their Top Twenty Trends. Food waste is a global problem, but 40 percent of the...

OSHKOSH, WIS.—Continental Girbau Inc. recently added the new 70-pound capacity G-Flex Washer to its most advanced line of hard-mount flexible-speed washers. The G-Flex line now includes 40-, 55-, and 70-pound capacity models. Superior programmability, including G-force, brings premium program and process flexibility to laundries at an affordable price point, according to Joel Jorgensen, Continental Vice President of Sales and Customer Services.“G-Flex Washers deliver the flexibility of six programmable extract speeds, including 100, 140 and 200 G-force, at an affordable value,” said Jorgensen. “There are other washers on the market that offer flexible G-force, but they are typically more expensive,...

THE MALDIVES—Soneva Fushi, the multi award-winning luxury resort in the Maldives, which has implemented numerous projects to reduce their impact on the environment, recently joined hands with LightBlue Environmental Consulting to implement a food waste audit, to understand and address the problem of food waste that affects the entire hospitality industry and to reinforce its position as global leader in sustainability.The United Nations recently put food waste reduction as one of their most urgent goals to reach and countries all over the world are beginning to realize the true negative impact of food waste with the United States planning...