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title: Service Ideas wins Table Service & Buffet Supplier of the Year Award
description: "During its recent Fall Conference held at the Crowne Plaza Chicago O’Hare, in Rosemont, IL, Allied Buying Corporation recognized extraordinary contributions to the group with its annual \"Supplier of t"
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# [Service Ideas wins Table Service & Buffet Supplier of the Year Award](https://blog.serviceideas.com/abc-table-service-buffet-supplier-of-the-year-award)

 Written by [Service Ideas](https://blog.serviceideas.com/author/service-ideas) | Dec 1, 2017 7:33:00 PM

During its recent Fall Conference held at the Crowne Plaza [Chicago](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=41.8819444444,-87.6277777778&spn=0.1,0.1&q=41.8819444444,-87.6277777778%20(Chicago)&t=h) O’Hare, in [Rosemont, IL](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=41.9908333333,-87.8738888889&spn=0.1,0.1&q=41.9908333333,-87.8738888889%20(Rosemont%2C%20Illinois)&t=h), **Allied Buying Corporation** recognized extraordinary contributions to the group with its annual "Supplier of the Year" awards. The criteria employed by [ABC](http://www.abc.com) dealers in the voting process are tied to quality in the areas of “people” ([sales](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sales) managers, reps, [customer service](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Customer_service)); products and service levels.

ABC introduced a new award, designated the **“Tom Wilhelm Distinguished Supplier of the Year” Award**. This award is homage to ABC’s retiring [Executive Director](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_director), Tom Wilhelm. The award is voted on by the ABC membership and given to the top OVERALL supplier. The inaugural award had a first place tie between two outstanding ABC suppliers: [The Vollrath Company](http://www.vollrathco.com/) and Libbey Foodservice.

 

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The Vollrath Company: Dennis Park, Paul Egbert, Paul Bartelt, Marty Patterson

 

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Libbey Foodservice: Karen Pierce, ABC President Marty Monnat

 

**ABC’s Suppliers of the Year for 2013 are: **

**Smallwares:** Spill Stop, *[Runner Up](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runner-up): Dexter Russell*

**Tabletop:** Diversified Ceramics, *Runner Up: Walco *

**[Table Service](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foodservice) / Buffet:** Service Ideas, *Runner Up: American Metalcraft*

**Light Equipment & Furnishings:** Nemco Food Equipment, *Runner Up: T & S Brass and Bronze*

**Heavy Equipment:** Continental Refrigeration, *Runner Up: Intermetro *

 

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L/R Nemco (Light Equipment & Furnishings) Joe Ciecierski, Jason Guilliam, Michele Wibel / Continental Refrigerator (Heavy Equipment) Kevin Brown / Diversified Ceramics (Tabletop) Tony LaPorte; / Spill Stop (Smallwares) Robert Silverstein, Debbie Silverstein / Service Ideas (Table Service/Buffet) Andy Krawczyk, Megan Blohowiak, Christina Brandt. 

 

**ABC SALES EXECUTIVE OF THE YEAR**

Dennis Park of The Vollrath Company, and Karen Pierce of Libbey Foodservice were each selected from many outstanding candidates to receive the “Supplier Sales [Executive of the Year](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBA_Executive_of_the_Year_Award)” award. The selection was based on excellence in the areas of professionalism, knowledge of product line, problem solving ability, and timely response to customer needs. They were each presented with a bronze lion as a symbol of their dominance in the industry jungle.

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Karen Pierce, Libbey Foodservice / Dennis Park, The Vollrath Company

 

 

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