Rep Prep from Eaton Marketing is an informative series that gives you access to one of our foodservice equipment experts. In this edition, spend 10 minutes with Alberto Soddu, and learn about his Italian background and how it led him to Eaton Marketing.

School cafeterias are a central part of every Florida school, whether it's an elementary school, middle school, or high school. A successful school nutrition program depends on revenue that comes from student participation, and one way to help ensure it is to provide an enticing environment in which to display and serve food.

Breakfast and lunch are important times in any Florida school cafeteria. This is when school nutrition operators need to increase participation, provide nutritional value, create happier students, and ultimately drive revenue for the operation. With grab-n-go options, these objectives are a little easier to achieve.

Hey, this is Florida. Restaurants in our state need high quality ice for obvious reasons. Whether it's a high end ice program at a South Beach cocktail lounge or a seafood restaurant along the Gulf Coast, we need to keep things cool in our state.

In Florida commercial kitchens with limited space, it's important for operators to get the most out of every inch of real estate. From a practical solutions perspective, that means finding foodservice equipment that does more than one thing while allowing for greater menu diversity.