Best Practices for Restaurant Owners and Industry Professionals Monthly Benchmarking and Money-making Teleseminar:

How To Insure You Have The Best Restaurant Supply, Parts and Equipment Company For Your Start-up and Existing Restaurant

Jonathan Interviews Lenny Douglas with Tundra Specialties.

Opening and maintaining a restaurant is always a challenge.  This conversation will help you on your way to building a success from the start.

• We talk about the very basics (The Restaurant Development Process) of starting with a drawing, mapping out the plan in order to get a good understanding of the goal.
• We talk about understanding the options from big equipment, to counter equipment and storage, all the way to small ware.
• We even talk about what to look for in an equipment vendor.

About your Hosts:

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Jonathan Munsell owns two restaurant brands and a catering company. Jonathan Munsell works with current and aspiring restaurant owners specializing in restaurant startup and growth. In 2007, Jonathan launched Restaurant Success System conducting national seminars and professionally speaking on restaurant startup, restaurant operations, restaurant marketing and finance. Learn more about Jonathan by visiting www.RestaurantSuccessMonthly.com

Lenny Douglas is the Sales Manager for Tundra Specialties, which is a company that specializes in restaurant parts, supplies and equipment.   Lenny grew up in Tampa Florida.  He moved to Colorado in 1997, waited tables and was bartender for several locations.  Lenny attended University Colorado in 1999 for Computer Science, then made a change in direction and left engineering school.  Lenny then worked for a foodservice sales position with Old Timer Foods working with Regional Restaurants selling a variety of food products.  He met Rob Fenton, part owner and Sales Manager with Tundra, and has been working for Tundra Specialties since January 1, 2003, starting in the Outside Sales Team.

You can find out more about equipment and connect with Tundra Specialties by visiting their website www.etundra.com or check out their blog  “The Back Burner”

Their blogs about the foodservice industry at The Back Burner, which is written by the employees of Tundra Specialties, a company specializing in restaurant equipment and food service supplies.

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Dimmers come in various shapes and have varying capabilities. Most of us are accustomed to working with the traditional slide or rotary dimmer to reduce the output level of a light.

But today we also have programmable dimmers and lighting control systems capable of raising and lowering lighting levels and of creating multiple lighting scenes in a room, an entire house, or an entire building. Dimmers can control the ups and downs of window shading and can be used for daylight harvesting.

Dimmers can work with low voltage and line voltage lighting systems. And they work with incandescent, fluorescent, and LED light sources. They can also interact with occupancy sensors and daylight sensors to create energy savings and to enhance security.

With hardwired or wireless configurations, dimmers and lighting controls can be used in new construction and can be retrofitted to existing facilities.

Key Advantages to Using Dimmers
ï Create comfort and ambiance
ï Reduce energy consumption immediately
ï Increase lamp life and reduce maintenance
ï Security
ï Add value to property

For more information about DIMMERS and LIGHTING CONTROLS, call the friendly folks at Professional Lighting today.

Bill Hammond
Professional Lighting
bhammond@professionallighting.com
412- B Gallimore Dairy Road
Greensboro NC 27409-9725
336-605-5888

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