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P.R.I.D.E. It’s more than a goal at Florida Food Service IT’S A WAY OF LIFE! Joel IN THIS ISSUE: What’s Happenin’ 2-3 Birthdays 4 Babies 4 Graduates 5 Employee Spotlight 6 FFS Gives 7 Important Dates 8 Issue022018 As our fiscal year comes to a close on June 3oth, we take a look back at our great year! 2017 was one of the best sales years we’ve ever experienced. Officially, it will rank as number 3, but in many ways it was number 1! The two years that saw higher sales numbers were both years with BWW as the main driver of the overall sales. That’s all well and good, but street business is what we do best. This year was our best year ever, in terms of street business. This year also had more individual salesperson records broken than any other year. A lot of our salespeople enjoyed their best year ever! These are all great signs for the future. In fact, the sales budget for fiscal year 2018/2019 will be the highest sales ever for Florida Food Service! We know we are not the biggest in the business. But we believe we are very hard to beat when it comes to customer service. Customers buy from people they like! The attitude of everyone at FFS has helped us to grow and gain customers in a very competitive marketplace. Our customers are the best, and we enjoy the long-lasting relationships we establish with them. Those relationships lay the foundation for successful years like this one. I want to remind everyone how important your job is to the whole FFS mission. Without each and every one of you doing your jobs to the best of your ability, success is not possible. On the contrary, when we ‘re all working together to make happy customers, there is no stopping us! I am personally very excited for the year we just completed and even more excited about upcoming season. Let’s all work together and this time next year, we will say together, again, “We just had the best year in Florida Food Service history!” A MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT: Send Us Your News! New baby? Wedding news? Favorite recipe? Or just a great story? Send your contribution to Sara.Maxwell@ffsinc.com to be included in the next issue! at orida Food Service Summer 2018
Transcript of at Florida Food Service...Todd Brown 20th Steve Osteen 23rd Rick Armitage 25th Randy Armitage 25th...
P. R . I . D. E .It’s more than a goal at
Florida Food Service
IT’S A WAY OF LIFE!
Joel
IN THIS ISSUE:What’s Happenin’ 2-3
Birthdays 4
Babies 4
Graduates 5
Employee Spotlight 6
FFS Gives 7
Important Dates 8
Issue022018
As our fiscal year comes to a close on June 3oth, we take a look back at our great year! 2017 was one of the best sales years we’ve ever experienced. Officially, it will rank as number 3, but in many ways it was number 1! The two years that saw higher sales numbers were both years with BWW as the main driver of the overall sales. That’s all well and good, but street business is what we do best. This year was our best year ever, in terms of street business. This year also had more individual salesperson records broken than any other year. A lot of our salespeople enjoyed their best year ever! These are all great signs for the future. In fact, the sales budget for fiscal year 2018/2019 will be the highest sales ever for Florida Food Service!We know we are not the biggest in the business. But we believe we are very hard to beat when it comes to customer service. Customers buy from people they like! The attitude of everyone at FFS has helped us to grow and gain customers in a very competitive marketplace. Our customers are the best, and we enjoy the long-lasting relationships we establish with them. Those relationships lay the foundation for successful years like this one.
I want to remind everyone how important your job is to the whole FFS mission. Without each and every one of you doing your jobs to the best of your ability, success is not possible. On the contrary, when we ‘re all working together to make happy customers, there is no stopping us!I am personally very excited for the year we just completed and even more excited about upcoming season. Let’s all work together and this time next year, we will say together, again, “We just had the best year in Florida Food Service history!”
A MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT:
Send Us Your News!New baby? Wedding news? Favorite recipe?
Or just a great story? Send your contribution to [email protected]
to be included in the next issue!
at Florida Food Service
Summer 2018
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1. Dan (Two Rivers) shared his knowledge and expertise with our sales staff. Here is Jeff Islam flipping steaks! Rough day!
2. Samplings from Fanta Foods of Florida! They brought a FANTABULOUS spread for us to taste!
WHAT’S HAPPENIN’THERE’S ALWAYS SOMETHING HAPPENIN’ AT FLORIDA FOOD SERVICE!
WE’RE PROUD TO HAVE A WORKPLACE THAT DOUBLES AS A SECOND HOME. THANKS TO ALL OUR EMPLOYEES FOR MAKING FFS SO SPECIAL. WE ENJOY YOU!
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AWWWW
SHUCKS!Even though Brian isn’t one of our employees, we are so
proud of our customers and their achievements!
Brian Clark of Oyster Troff in Eustis, FL recently earned a
standing as 4th in the world at the Oyster shucking event
in China where he tied the first place winner’s time!
WAY TO GO, BRIAN!
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3. Dan from Two Rivers stops by the office to teach our sales staff a few things about meats!
4-5. Partying it up at Sandy’s surprise party at the office!
6. James at CareerSource NCFL’s Logistics CareerFair.
7. Joel, Brian, Jason, Tim, Randy, Jonathan, Chip Crenshaw, Ed Delaney and Jeff attending a baseball game at the UniPro conference.
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DID YOU KNOW?If all the boxes of Florida
tomatoes shipped in a recent
crop year were laid end to end,
they would reach from Pensacola to Beijing, China.
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JUNERobert Sabo 1stConrad Boske 10thEthan Lane 12thLevi Islam 14thWillie Williams 17thTodd Brown 20thSteve Osteen 23rdRick Armitage 25thRandy Armitage 25thKyle Standish 30th
JULYBuddy Hines 4thJim Islam 4thJenny Stewart 6thJason Islam 7thCary Price 7thLucas Jones 10thBilly Carreras 11th
JULY CONT.Keith Sheppard, Jr. 17thBen Baker 20thAJ Hutchinson 23rdJustin Wettig 26thHenri Armitage 27thNan Islam 29thPaul Body 30th
AUGUSTMicah Noda 2ndSara Maxwell 4thAdam Grable 9thJeff Garcia 9thBarry Bass 15thRobbie Sapp 25thSimeon Wright 28thAnson Armitage 30thJack Christmyer 30th
Tavien Young (Jen’s nephew)
Graduated from Bradford High, will be
attending FAMU summer of next year.
Welcome to the World!
Russell Lane’s Grandson,
Atticus
Paula Lucas’ granddaughter
Kinsley
Jacob Islam(Joel and Nan’s son)
Graduated from St. Patrick School where he attended
pre-K through middle school. He will attend
Buchholz High next year.
Tavien Young (Jen’s nephew)
Graduated from Bradford High, will be
attending FAMU summer of next year.
Michael J. Stagg (Bill Stagg’s son)Graduated from the Alabama College of Osteopathic Medicine. Will begin a 3-year residency on July 1, 2018 at the Regional Medical Center at Bayonet
Point in Hudson, Florida.
Trevor J. Stagg (Bill Stagg’s son)Graduated from St. Petersburg College of Nursing. Will begin his career as a RN at Mease Dunedin Hospital.
Carlie Sue Hart(Aubrey’s daughter)Graduated from Santa Fe High School & will attend Santa Fe College in the Fall of 2018.
Madison Macarages (Tim Fold’s niece)Graduated from Keystone Heights High School. Will attend Santa Fe College Zoology program next year.
Congrats Grads!WE ARE SO
PROUD OF YOU!
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Employee SpotlightAubrey Hart Job Title:SalesWhere are you from?Gainesville, Flyears working at ffs:25 Years
hobby fear bucket list
It’s been an honor to have these great
employees celebrate anniversaries with us!
Thanks for all your years of dedication and service to our
customers!
June—JAMES ISLAM 5 YEARS
KIMBERLY BURTON 10 YEARS
BUDDY HINES 15 YEARS
July—JULIE ARIET 5 YEARS
August—RUSSELL BURKE 15 YEARS
JONATHAN DOUGHERTY 15 YEARS
RANDY ARMITAGE 25 YEARS
Anniversaries
XOXO,Florida Food Service
Hunting and Fishing
Go to the College World Series
Heights
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Employee Spotlight FFS Gives...
Fason yo bay! (“Way to give”, in Haitian Creole)
Our culture centers around family and our community. That’s why it’s important for Florida Food Service to give back and help lots of wonderful organizations to meet their goals.
We love that we don’t just give as a company… FFS employs some of the most caring folks around! In June, driver Josh Martin went on a mission trip to Haiti. There, he passed out Joshua 1:9 tags that James had translated to
Creole for his trip! Great job, Josh!
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*1. Stephen Jennings, Michelle Jennings, Vern MacLeod (previous employee), Kimberly Burton and Matt Hayford at the Junior Achievement Superheroes Bowl-A-Thon!
2. Kyle Standish, Jeff Islam, Billy Carreras and Justin Wettig joined Bob Rose (center) at the Bob Rose Golf Scramble, supporting The ARC of Alachua County.
3. We sponsored United Way’s 2018 Leadership Reception at the Cade Museum for Creativity & Invention.
4. We received the Best Year-Round Campaign award from United Way of North Central Florida!
5. Jeff Islam, Paul Albritton and Kem Poe at the annual American Values Dinner to benefit the North Florida Council, Boy Scouts of America 7
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JOIN USfor our red, white & Blue summer food show!
AUGUST 3RD, 2018
@ THE WORLD GOLF VILLAGE
Blood Drive dates July 13th September 9th november 9th
august 3rd, 4th & 5th – Summer Food Show & company Weekend
July 13
August + Food ShowSeptember 7
October 5November 9December 7-8
important DatesSales meetings
Send Us Your News!New baby? Wedding news?
Favorite recipe? Or just a great story?
Send your contribution [email protected]
to be included in the next issue!
