Webinar
Emerging Trends in Restaurant Health
May 10, 2022
As a result of the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, the restaurant industry shut down and reopened with limited operations and in-person capacity. Yet, two years later, the industry is recovering and flourishing due to the hard work, determination and resilience of restaurant owners, operators and support staff.
Watch Fast Casual and solution leaders Bluezone by Middleby and Powerhouse Dynamics as they discuss how restaurants can protect the health and safety of in-person dining customers and staff while improving overall operations leveraging the latest trends and integrated technologies.
Areas of discussion include:
• Current challenges, trends and solutions.
• Killing the virus: UV-C air purification technology benefits.
• Equipment preventative maintenance best practices.
• Reducing labor challenges utilizing automation, including HAACP data collection and COVID 19 task management.
Meet the speakers
Scott Heim
Divisional President
Middleby Ventless Cooking Solutions
Scott is President of Middleby Ventless Cooking Solutions, Bluezone® Air Purification and Evo America. He is driving the new product innovations and marketing efforts for the Middleby commercial brands seeking to leverage the growing ventless cooking platform. He is concentrating on educating designers, architects and customers on a variety of ventless concepts, especially focusing on ways to create pockets of F&B revenue in non-traditional locations and even in historical buildings. Heim is helping to drive the launch of Bluezone by Middleby, an active air purification device that uses UV-C germicidal light to destroy molds, bacteria and virus contaminants. This innovative product was cleared by the FDA as a Class II Medical Device. Prior to joining Evo in 2012, he created a consumer-packaged goods firm which was successful in a very competitive retail market.
Jay Fiske
President
Powerhouse Dynamics
Jay is a technology executive and investor with more than 20 years of experience building businesses and bringing innovative technology products to market. As President of Powerhouse Dynamics, Jay has responsibility for leading all strategic and day-to-day company operations. Before joining Powerhouse Dynamics, Jay was actively involved in numerous technology companies through his consulting firm, 5312 Consulting LLC, and as Vice President of Operations for Wakonda Technologies, a Boston-area materials innovation firm. Prior to Wakonda, Jay was a General Partner at the Massachusetts Green Energy Fund, a venture capital fund focused on making early-stage investments in clean technology companies. Jay also held various leadership positions in business development and product management for Teradyne, Incorporated. Jay holds an MBA and MS in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he was a Fellow in the Leaders for Global Operations program. He earned his BS in mechanical engineering from Yale University.
David Behnke
Assistant Director of Facilities
The Culinary Institute of America (TCIA)
David is the Assistant Director of Facilities for The Culinary Institute of America Hyde Park, New York campus. David directs all aspects of design, planning, development, and construction of the TCIA Hyde Park campus to ensure campus buildings and the people in them are safe. When the Covid-19 pandemic hit, David and his team were tasked with incorporating a comprehensive virus mitigation strategy to protect TCIA students and staff. A critical aspect of their overall strategy was installing Bluezone germicidal UV-C air disinfection. David managed the installation of Bluezone air cleaners in campus dining areas where masks are not worn, and the risk of virus transmission is significant.
