Wallin Foodservice Resources

We're excited to announce a new money-saving promotion for Pizza Holding equipment from FWE!  Offer Valid March 1-June 30, 2025 Save 10% on FWE Pizza Holding Cabinets & Heated Shelves: TS-1633 Heated Pizza Holding Cabinets hold lots of pizzas in a small footprint with double-deep holding. HHS Heated Holding Shelves provide an easy-access landing zone for all your hot to-go orders. Orders must be submitted by 6/30/25 with promo code  25PZSIS  to qualify.  Click here  to learn more about FWE’s pizza equipment products. We’re here to help you take advantage of this great offer available from now through June 30, 2025.  For help identifying the right FWE equipment to support your specific needs,  contact us !

Happy Louisiana School Lunch Week! This week, we celebrate all of our hardworking friends in child nutrition across the great State of Louisiana!  We are lucky and proud to get to work with you to help support your vital mission of feeding our state’s future. Click the play button below to see just a few of the many things we have to celebrate about child nutrition in Louisiana. We wish you a fun and successful School Lunch Week, and we’re here to help you support your program all year long. Contact us !

You just never know when the perfect solution will come along for that nagging operational challenge.   For foodservice professionals, the 2025 NAFEM show was like being a kid in a candy store!  Throughout multiple halls of the Atlanta World Congress Convention Center, bright and shiny foodservice equipment and impactful new technology beckoned a closer look at every turn.  Doing more with less and for less—all while enhancing the customer’s experience—is always the goal.  Click the play button below to see how NAFEM 25 brought the wow, so you can improve your foodservice operation here and now! Want to learn more? We’re happy to talk with you about these featured products and other solutions for your unique operation. Contact us !

March 3­7 is National School Breakfast Week. According to the School Nutrition Association, the National School Breakfast Program served a whopping 2.5 billion meals in 2024! Thanks to the NSBP and child nutrition pros like you, over 15 million children—many of whom may not otherwise have the means—get to start their school day with the comfort, energy, and alertness that comes with a nutritious breakfast. That alone is cause for celebration! As you know all too well, serving school breakfast is no simple task. This year’s SNA theme for National School Breakfast Week is “Clue in to School Breakfast.” In honor of this special week, we’re sharing our best tips (or clues, if you will) for choosing equipment and supplies to help you support your breakfast program. Clue #1: It’s versatile across dayparts and menus. Breakfast program? Check! Lunch program? Check! Snack program? Check! The more dayparts you can use it for, the better! The Hatco Glo-Ray® Designer Merchandisi...

We are pleased to announce an exciting new addition to our outside sales team!  Jeff Becnel brings an extensive culinary and operations background to Wallin Foodservice Resources. A graduate of the Culinary Institute of America, Jeff founded, owned, and operated the award-winning French bakery La Petite Sophie, recognized by Food & Wine magazine as one of the 100 best bakeries in the US.  He has also held Executive Chef, Executive Pastry Chef, and Culinary Director roles in restaurants, hotels, and bakeries in New Orleans and Salt Lake City. Jeff is based in the New Orleans area and will focus on outside sales across the state of Louisiana. He is looking forward to applying his diverse culinary and business management experience to his new role to help commercial and noncommercial operators run thriving foodservice operations. Please join us in welcoming Jeff to Wallin Foodservice Resources. You can reach him at  jeffb@wallinfsr.com  or on his cell at...

It doesn’t matter who you are, or which side of the table you’re on, we all have the same goal: love at first bite. And if you’re the chef, owner, manager, or all of the above, you just want to hear those words: “Oh my…that was amazing!” That first impression, that first bite, sets the stage for the amazing dining experience you strive to create. Every well-planned step to the table provides the opportunity to deliver it. However you cook, bake, or fry impacts how to properly maintain both the temperature and just-cooked texture you want to serve. With that in mind, it’s important to consider features such as adjustable temperature, humidity, and built-in timers when you choose hot holding equipment. Start with a cozy warm foundation. Ambient temperature plates draw heat from hot foods the second they’re plated. Pre-heated plates prevent that immediate heat loss. The Hatco  PW Plate Warmer  holds up to 25 pre-heated serving plates to help extend the hot holding times of ...