Category Archives: General News

Free Delivery Routes

As always we have free delivery to the following cities:  Longwood, Orlando, Altamonte Springs, Winter Park, Oviedo, Clermont, Mt. Dora, Tavares, Leesburg, Melbourne, Titusville, Jupiter, Winter Springs, Palm Bay, Port St. Lucie, Sarasota, Largo, St. Petersburg, Winter Haven, Davenport and more for restaurant equipment free delivery.

Here’s a brief overview of some of the free delivery routes for the months of May and June 2012:  Tampa, Melbourne, Miami and Jacksonville Ports, Ocala, Gainesville, Georgia, Jacksonville, Tallahassee, Clearwater, Largo, St. Pete, and well is that enough yet?  I know I’m missing a few places like Lake Lakeland, Crystal River and Lake City… call us you never know where our truck is going next!  The Frog, 407-480-3409

NEVER a charge if you’re on one of our free delivery routes for the month!  Call us, we’re just a hop down the road and we’d love to work with you!

The Sanford Art Walk Is Coming FOR YOU

Pick up your walking shows, citizens of Central Florida!

The next Sanford Art Walk is May 25, 2012, 6-9pm in downtown Sanford. Free admission. It takes place in a pedestrian friendly shopping corridor enhanced by live music venues, wine bars, and award winning restaurants, blocks from the scenic RiverWalk promenade along the St. Johns River. Below is the line-up:

Art Affair Gallery, at 301 East First Street, will introduce artists Johanna Drummond and Delany Dean. Drummond is well known for her ceramic wildlife sculptures and Dean for her Florida wildlife photography. There will be live music in the main gallery by Smilin’ Bill and a gallery artist print show and sale. For more information contact the gallery at 407.878.2855 or www.artaffairgallery.com.

Framing 508 Gallery, at 116 S. Palmetto Ave. and Riverhouse Pottery, at 118 S. Palmetto, will join forces to create a “Piazza on Palmetto”. Stop by for a sip of Alfredo’s famous sangria and enjoy a multitude of artists’ work. For more information, call 407-324-1577 or visit www.508gallery.com.

Gallery on First, at 211 E. 1st St., will feature the work of the Central Florida Plein Air Artists in their show titled “Nature’s Palette.” Sixteen members of the group will display scenes painted on location in the great outdoors. For more information, call 407-323-2774 or visit www.galleryonfirst.com.

Historic Sanford Welcome Center, at 230 E. 1st St., is proud to host Central Florida’s only monthlyjuried art show with both a “Best in Show” award chosen by a panel of judges and a “People’s Choice” award chosen by the attendees of the show. This month’s theme is “Covers and Comics.” Come on out, enjoy the art and help to determine the “People’s Choice” winner! Call 407-302-2586 for more information.

Hyder Gallery Center for Fine Art, 104 E. 1st Street, will feature the works of Jerryl Kain. Her current work has been likened to Picasso, and more recently Alexandra Nechita. Distinct in tone and style, Kain’s work transcends the abstract label commonly attached to her work. Show runs through June 21st. Regular Gallery hours M-S, 10am-6pm and Sunday noon to 6pm. For more information call 407-878-7646 or email sharon@hydergallery.com or visit www.hydergallery.com.

Jeanine Taylor Folk Art, at 211 E. 1st St., will feature the sculptures of Trent Manning. Working with found objects that are well worn, Manning creates figures that bear appealing patinas and textures. With a penchant for the macabre, he produces work that is both fascinating and unsettling to some. For more information, call 407-323-2774 or visit www.jtfolkart.com.

little fish HUGE pond, at 309 E. 1st St., will present “Graphicteers” with four artists, four styles, all graphic in technique. Alexander Watkins is a comic book artist; Sean Conklin has a playful sense to his work; Eric Mathews loves his Anime; Liz Watkins has the heart of an illustrator. For more information on this or any upcoming exhibits, please contact Mo Wisdom at mo@littlefish-hugepond.com.

Sanford Wine Company, at 114 S. Palmetto Avenue, welcomes a solo exhibit by Artist Bethany Taylor Myers. “The Blind Leading the Brush”
is her body of work using a style known as “blind contour”; it’s full of color and whimsy. Join Ken and the staff of the Sanford Wine Company for wine, conversation and art. For more information on this or any upcoming exhibits, please contact Liz Watkins at Liz@littlefish-hugepond.com.

(via The Daily City)

Humidity vs. Hair

As a northern man with Scottish-English-Canadian descent, I’ll never get used to Florida humidity. It’s like walking into a convection oven out there!

One Fat Frog • 1137 W. Airport Blvd. • Sanford, FL • 407-936-2733
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Today in Jacksonville/ St. Augustine FL

Today we’ve got a team in St. Augustine and Jacksonville and Mr. Bossman is headed to meet with clients up there.  That’s pretty nifty in my book.  *BUT*  the coolest thing is he’s got a sweet little mini-meeting with a charity up there we’ve been hearing a lot about.  It’s called Character Counts!  and we’re hoping to do a little donating with them.  Here’s our thing.  At One Fat Frog, we are a community-based business and giving back to the community is our middle name.  With the amount of business we do in Jax and St. Aug it’s about time that One Fat Frog has a pet charity up there, too.  We’ve been good to Pathways Drop In Shelter for the Mentally Ill Homeless here in Orlando and now we’re hoping to add this new charity to our list of those we help out.  Today’s meeting is just a quick overview, meet and greet and really to get the boss to buy into what the charity is about and to see if we can donate some chairs, tables and stacking stools.

Anyways, that’s my GREAT news for the day and I’m sticking to it!  Happy Monday, folks, surround yourself with good and watch the good come of it!

Wanna LIKE them on Facebook?  Here’s a link to Character Counts

Wanna LIKE us on Facebook?  Here’s a link to One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment on Facebook

 

Florida Hospital & Food Network Host Gourmet Soiree!

Here’s something fun going down on June 3rd at Florida Hospital on Universal Blvd. in Orlando, FL. The “Gourmet Soiree: Dining to a Healthy 100″ features Food Network’s Robert Irvine and other local celebrity chefs including Hollis Wilder. Individual tickets are $250, sponsorships are from $2,500 and up. Here’s more info:

The Food Network’s Robert Irvine and Florida Hospital invite guests to roll up their sleeves and cook their way to a Healthy 100 at its newest fundraising event – Gourmet Soiree – promoting the overall health and well being of the community. The interactive dinner will feature a reception, live and silent auctions, and a delicious meal. With guidance from renowned celebrity chefs including Irvine, Sweet! by Holly’s Hollis Wilder and other local celebrity chefs, guests will learn how exciting healthy cooking can be by preparing a healthy dinner at their very own table, while donning aprons and chef’s hats. Guests are given the opportunity to choose the area within the hospital closest to their heart to designate where their funds will be directed.

You can visit the event’s website here.

One Fat Frog • 11473 S. Orange Blossom Trail • Orlando, FL • 407-480-3409

RIP Donna Summer

It was reported today that Donna Summer, the undisputed disco queen, has passed away. RIP Donna Summer!

PS: the above song is pretty much one of the steamiest jams ever!

 

One Fat Frog • 11473 S. Orange Blossom Trail • Orlando, FL • 407-480-3409

 

Gay Orlando Comedy Show

I think it’s safe to say this show will feature mature content. Bonkersz Comedy Club at Mojo’s Bar & Grill in downtown Orlando.

To purchase tickets: http://downtownorlando.bonkerzcomedy.com/show.cfm?id=156951

One Fat Frog • 11473 S. Orange Blossom Trail • Orlando, FL • 407-480-3409

2012 Asian Cultural Festival in East Orlando

This Saturday, May 12, the Asian Cultural Festival will be held from 4-9pm at Avalon Park Downtown in East Orlando. They’ll be plenty of cultural entertainment, arts, crafts, and, of course, loads of Asian Ethnic food! Enjoy traditional dishes from China, India, Japan, Korea, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, and others!

One Fat Frog • 11473 S. Orange Blossom Trail • Orlando, FL • 407-480-3409

Central Florida Commission on Homelessness May Be Disbanded

Total bummer for those who give a hoot about the homeless plight in Orlando. The Orlando Sentinel reports:

The Central Florida Commission on Homelessness — the high-powered public-private partnership that vowed to end the region’s homeless problem by 2018 — may be dissolved and its mission turned over to the local United Way.

An email sent on behalf of the group’s chairman this week calls for a telephone conference May 16 to discuss ending the commission, formed in 2008 amid great celebration and a call for millions of dollars in public funding — a financial commitment that has never materialized.

“Since the funding cannot be obtained, the future of the commission is jeopardized and in question,” said the memo. It was sent by the commission’s executive director, Ray Larsen, on behalf of its chairman of the board, prominent banking executive Ed Timberlake. “It is recommended that the existing programs of the commission be moved to the United Way and that the commission cease to exist.”

Timberlake could not be reached for comment, and Larsen would say only that the matter was under discussion and that no action would be taken without a vote of the commission’s board of directors.

He did not explain why none of the government members of the board — including Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer, Orange County Mayor Teresa Jacobs, Osceola County Commissioner Brandon Arrington and Seminole County Commissioner Brenda Carey — were copied on the emails. Elected officials’ emails are considered public record and available to the media.

“That’s curious to me,” said Deputy Orange County Administrator Linda Weinberg, who often attends the commission meetings for Jacobs, when asked why neither she nor the mayor had been informed of the discussion. “And I would hate to see the regional commission just dissolve. You have a prime board of really strong community leaders that have a lot of clout … and I think it would take a long time to get a board like that back together again.”

In August 2011 — the last time the entire commission officially met — Weinberg said members were still discussing a possible merger with the Homeless Services Network, an Orlando-based nonprofit that works to secure grant funding for homeless programs. The agency brought in more than $7 million last year.

Free Restaurant Equipment Delivery to Tallahassee

Attention Tallahassee restaurant owners and future restaurant owners of Tallahassee, One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment is making a free delivery run to Tallahassee this month! It’s not everyday you get free used restaurant equipment delivery – unless you shop at One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment, that is. No matter how much or how little used restaurant equipment you buy from One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment, we’ll deliver it to you curbside absolutely free!

it’s easy. All you have to do is purchase your used restaurant equipment from One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment today and it’ll be at your door the day One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment makes the next free delivery run to Tallahassee, which will be later this month. This deal applies to any and all Tallahassee restaurants, Tallahassee bakeries, Tallahassee pizzerias, Tallahassee delis, Tallahassee diners, Tallahassee cafes, Tallahassee food trucks, Tallahassee churches, – you get the idea. If you’re located anywhere in between Orlando and Tallahassee, come get your used restaurant equipment today to get it delivered for free later this month!

One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment has everything Tallahassee restaurants need for a strong, dynamic kitchen that will have the competition running away with their little Tallahassee tails tucked between their Tallahassee legs. One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment gets in truckloads of used restaurant equipment in every week of items like used range ovens, used convection ovens, used cook and hold ovens, used Alto-Shaams, used slicers, used fryers, used flat griddles, used charbroilers, used tilt kettles, used under counter coolers, used under counter freezers, used ice machines, used commercial freezers, used commercial coolers, used dough mixers, used refrigerated prep tables, used under counter dishwashers, used equipment stands, used grab and go coolers, used bakery display coolers, used dough sheeters, used bottle coolers, used kegerators, used restaurant furniture, used soft serve machines, and so much more!

One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment is the only used commercial restaurant equipment dealer in the nation with its own in-house finance manager specialist! This charming man can get you approved no matter what! One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment specializes in financing start-up restaurants. No one will be turned away! One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment can get you approved no matter what shape your credit is in! One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment also welcomes quick cash deals and package deals towards the entire stock of used commercial restaurant equipment. Bring in cash and One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment will shave a bundle off of the already low prices!

One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment offers more free services on top of the free delivery! One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment offers free custom paint jobs on any piece of used commercial restaurant equipment that can be painted. One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment also offers free custom cutting boards for prep tables, free gas conversion from liquid propane to natural gas and vice versa, and a free 30 day parts and labor warranty on very single piece of used commercial restaurant equipment in the One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment warehouse.

One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment is the only used commercial restaurant equipment dealer in Florida with a large staff of specialized in-house technicians. Monday through Friday (and sometimes Saturday) the One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment in-house technicians are cleaning, refurbishing, and testing every piece of used commercial restaurant equipment that comes into the One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment warehouse. Come on in and give them a firm handshake today!

One Fat Frog • 11473 S. Orange Blossom Trail • Orlando, FL • 407-480-3409

One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment company overview

One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment operates as a food service equipment dealer in North America. Our  product categories include equipment, smallwares and furniture; One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment is a full-service dealer offering sales, warranty service, and delivery of new & used food service equipment.  One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment serves the commercial food service market through restaurants, hospitality- hotels and lodging, School system food service  colleges and universities, elementary, middle, high schools,preschools, camps, hospitals, and nursing homes, and caterers, non-profit organizations, , home-based businesses, golf course, and church school fundraising programs; and concessionaires, day care providers, and service organizations. The company was founded in 2005 and is based just north of Orlando, Florida.  One Fat Frog Restaurant is a 100% woman owned business.  WBE

For further information contact:

One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment

1137 W. Airport Blvd, Sanford, FL 32773

11473 S. Orange Blossom Trail, Orlando FL 32837

Sales@onefatfrog.com

407-480-3409 showroom

Professional Services One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment

At One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment, we endeavor to sell affordably priced equipment, but that’s only part of our promise to you.  One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment is a  full-service dealer offering everything from business plan help, startup concept thinktanks to actual free delivery of great used restaurant equipment which has been professional painted, technician tested and guaranteed. Whether your are an independent or a franchise food service operator, you can trust One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment for the following items:

Planning & Design -  One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment listens to you!  What are your needs?  What is budget?  How can we best meet your concept while incorporating traffic flow, seating, front of the house and back of the house needs?  We work with architects, engineers, food service consultants, owners and general contractors to be sure the planning and all stages thereafter is completed in a timely manner.   One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment also has experience providing the entire interior design package from custom seating- booths and chairs- to custom artwork.

Project Management – We are a full-service dealership and as such can provide you with simple product purchasing or actual project management.  If you endeavor to contract with One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment for project management via a sales professional, you will find that we coordinate between architects, general contractors, engineers, plumbers, electricians, and other related sub contractors.  Let us take on the headaches.  One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment can also direct you to a variety of reputable general contractors and food truck builders who we have worked with in the past.

Custom Construction, Fabrication, Metal work and Custom Paint-  One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment can manage any sort of custom job.  From custom paint to stainless, we’re your company.   Let us work with you to create any sort of product you need!

One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment also does some machine work for inhouse jobs.

Delivery - We offer free delivery in the metro Orlando area- and throughout a lot of the state of Florida from Tampa to Jacksonville, Ocala to Gainesville and many many points in between we do it!  Call one of our stores for details- we have trucks on the road five days a week- 407-480-3409.  One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment delivers nationally and internationally.  Need it to go air or sea?  No problem- let us take care of the details.

FREE -  One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment is a full-service dealer.  This means that when we sell you equipment you also receive One Fat Frog’s commitment to quality.  Our warehouse staff receive equipment, assembles and sets it up.   One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment will make sure your equipment arrives in a timely fashion and is delivered on time.  We offer free delivery to many places in the state of Florida, we also offer free gas conversion, free custom cutting boards and free custom paint jobs.

One Fat Frog offers warranty -  One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment has a variety of warranty offerings that vary with pieces of equipment.  Generally used equipment is covered by a 30 day parts and labor at One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment, Orlando, but if it’s new it carries the manufacturer’s new warranty.

Did you know we are 100% WBE women owned business?  This means if you use us as a sub- we are considered Tier One Spending.

Call 407-480-3409 for Orlando or 407-936-2733 for Sanford/ Lake Mary  Two locations to conveniently service you in the state of Florida

Commercial Appliance Repair Orlando

One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment has the best deoderant wearing commercial appliance repair team out there.  Need help and you’re under OUR warranty- call Tech on the Truck for affordable repair.

One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment, 407.480-3409.  Due to size of our equipment sales we are only offering service on equipment that is under warranty.  We are not currently offering service to new clients.  Thank you for your support!  At the Frog we practice the trickle down effect- we grow and feed the homeless and participate in other charity endeavors.  It’s our responsibility to give back to the community!  Call 407-480-3409 or stop by one of our two stores

restaurant equipment trade in credit

Are you seeking trade in credit or cash out on used restaurant equipment?  One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment offers entire warehouse or facility clean outs with purchase of entire facility!  Call 407-480-3409

Liquidation Services‎: assist in liquidating high volume equipment, Full-service liquidation, outright purchase, consignment, contract
Trade in credit‎: One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment offers trade in credit so you can “trade up” to larger, newer or different supplies.
Finance Lease:   One Fat Frog has an in-house finance department that works with a large pool of banks and different lenders to offer you great packages to A,B,C and D credit as well as startup or existing concepts like: nursing homes, hotels, restaurants, bars, grills, food service, convenience stores, funeral homes and more!

Consultation Services‎: General Contractors, hoods, flooring, build-out, permitting contacts are all just a phone call away from our rolodex at One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment
Motto‎: Value. Integrity. Honesty

One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment- call 407-480-3409  Several locations to better serve you and your food service needs and lots of FREE add-ons like custom paint jobs, free gas conversion and more!  Sure a bargain is great but when you can get a bargain with skill behind it then you’re doing well!

Easy Restaurant Equipment Credit Application Available Online!

One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment is the only used commercial restaurant equipment dealer in the nation with its own in-house finance manager specialist! All he does all day long is get people approved for all of the used commercial restaurant equipment they need! One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment specializes in financing start-up restaurants. No one will be turned away! One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment can get you approved no matter what shape your credit is in!

It doesn’t get any easier than this… just click on here to download your restaurant equipment lease application. Yup, it really is that simple. Fax it back or email it (after scanning in your original signature).

DOWNLOAD YOUR LEASE FINANCE APPLICATION FOR RESTAURANT EQUIPMENT

I know most of us haven’t survived the recession and economic changes with perfect credit.  Don’t be ashamed, One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment is here to help you get the equipment you need to open your restaurant startup, to stay open or to upgrade or to open another location.

The best of used restaurant equipment in Central Florida at Orlando’s One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment.  There is a reason that people travel from other states to shop at One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment… see why your neighbors come home with great deals on used restaurant equipment.  One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment offers free delivery from Jacksonville to Daytona Beach, New Smyrna Beach to Gainesville and Ocala, Leesburg, Tavares, Mt. Dora, Clermont, Tampa, Jacksonville, Orlando, and so many points in between.  Give us a call and find out when a truck is coming to you, might be as soon as tomorrow!

One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment has everything you could possibly need for a strong, dynamic restaurant: used range ovens, used convection ovens, used flat griddles, used charbroilers, used fryers, used conveyor ovens, used cook and hold ovens, used dough mixers, used combination ovens, used salamanders, used bottle coolers, used kegerators, used slicers, used under counter refrigerators, used under counter freezers, used refrigerated pizza prep tables, used refrigerated sandwich prep tables, used open air merchandisers, used bakery display cases, used ice cream dipping cabinets, used hot dog rollers, used soft serve machines, used restaurant chairs, used bar stools, used booths, used menu holders, used restaurant tables, used prep tables, used equipment stands, used refrigerated lowboy chef stands, used sinks, used three compartment sinks, used ice machines, used under counter dishwashers, used espresso machines, used iced tea brewers, used coffee brewers, and much much more! Phew.

One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment also welcomes quick cash deals and package deals towards the entire stock of used commercial restaurant equipment. Bring in cash and One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment will shave a bundle off of the already low prices!

One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment offers more free services on top of the free delivery! One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment offers free custom paint jobs on any piece of used commercial restaurant equipment that can be painted. One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment also offers free custom cutting boards for prep tables, free gas conversion from liquid propane to natural gas and vice versa, and a free 30 day parts and labor warranty on very single piece of used commercial restaurant equipment in the One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment warehouse.

One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment is the only used commercial restaurant equipment dealer in Florida with a large staff of specialized in-house technicians. Monday through Friday (and sometimes Saturday) the One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment in-house technicians are cleaning, refurbishing, and testing every piece of used commercial restaurant equipment that comes into the One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment warehouse. Come on in and meet them today!

One Fat Frog • 11473 S. Orange Blossom Trail • Orlando, FL • 407-480-3409

Healthy Options and Value Leaders in Chain Restaurants

“Healthy choice” and “brand value” are the strongest motivators for restaurant chains consumers when it comes to decision making, category expectations, and engagement with brands, according to a survey of Brand Keys, a New York based brand consultancy. The survey of 49,000 consumers aged 18-5 years old throughout the country food brands that can meet or exceed customer expectations for experience and authentic brand values lead their categories. Here are the most popular brands:

OVERALL:
1. Domino’s
2. Dunkin’ Donuts
3. McDonald’s
4. Papa John’s
5. Ruby Tuesday
6. Subway

CASUAL DINING:
1. Rub Tuesday
2. Outback
3. Chili’s
4. Olive Garden
5. IHOP/Red Lobster (tie)
6. TGI Friday’s
7. Hooters/Applebee’s (tie)
8. Arby’s

PIZZA:
1. Domino’s /Papa John’s (tie)
2. Pizza Hut
3. Godfather’s
4. Round Table
5. Chuck E. Cheese’s
6. Little Caesars

QUICK-SERVE:
1. McDonald’s/Subway (tie)
2. Wendy’s
3. KFC
4. Burger King
5. Hardee’s
6. Quiznos
7. Taco Bell

I’m perfectly okay with these lists, but how in the world did Arby’s get categorized within the “casual dining” section rather than “quick-serve?” Get real.

One Fat Frog * 11473 S. Orange Blossom Trail * Orlando, FL * 407-480-3409

food service equipment hotel hospital retirement home church

One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment 407-480-3409 has two locations and free delivery to much of the state of Florida so that we can provide quality foodservice equipment and supplies via our showroom and e-commerce websites on the world wide web to the expanding foodservice marketplace. At One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment, we serve food service and restaurant clients who have the need for food service equipment whether they are a restaurant, hotel, hospital, school, retirement home, church or community group.

Call One Fat Frog Restaurant at 407-480-3409 or email sales@onefatfrog.com

You’re always welcome at Frog REstaurant Equipment showrooms and warehouses:  11473 S. Orange Blossom Trail, Orlando FL 32837 or at 1137 W. Airport Blvd, Sanford, FL 32773

Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys Has Passed

Truly awful news. After a two-year battle with cancer, Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys has passed, at age 47. Yauch, known to fans by his stage-name MCA, co-founded the group with friends Michael (Mike D) Diamond and Adam (Ad-Rock) Horovitz in 1979 as a punk band, before transitioning into rap in the mid-80s. Yauch announced he had a tumor in 2009.

Yauch also founded the Tibetan Freedom Concert series which helped bring the plight of Tibet into the world consciousness. He was a practicing Buddhist. He directed many of the Beastie Boys’ videos under his filmmaker alter-ego Nathaniel Hornblower. He founded the music and independent film distribution label Oscilloscope Laboratories in 2002.

He also helped bring a lot of joy to my life. Their music means a lot to me and has since I was a pup cruising the suburbs on my BMX, blasting “Check your Head” on my walkman. I have so many good memories courtesy of the Beasties.

Our prayers go out to Yauch’s family and the entire Beastie Boys family.

One Fat Frog • 11473 S. Orange Blossom Trail • Orlando, FL • 407-480-3409

Advantages & Disadvantages of Used Restaurant Equipment

So you’ve got your location and are ready to stock your restaurant with all of the restaurant equipment. You’ve been considering buying used, but are a little wary.

Sure there are certain advantages versus disadvantages of buying used restaurant equipment.  Minimize those disadvantages by shopping at One Fat Frog’s Orlando or Sanford FL located for great deals on used restaurant equipment.  One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment has experience selling used restaurant equipment, we have a full team who specialize in cleaning, painting and repair.  One Fat Frog Restaurant Equipment has drivers and delivery teams and free delivery through many places in the state.  See store for details on this and warranty on certain pieces.

Sure there are pros and cons to buying new versus used restaurant equipment but the final savings can really outweigh the disadvantages of purchasing used restaurant equipment IF you buy at the right dealer.  Come meet us at the Frog, get to know us and if you like us then stay a while.  Become one of our regulars who refers their friends.

You know we’re good people when a lot of our business is referral!

One Fat Frog • 11473 S. Orange Blossom Trail • Orlando, FL • 407-480-3409

National Restaurant Association Teams With Kids LiveWell Program!

As part of the National Restaurant Association’s ongoing efforts to promote and push the Kids LiveWell program, they announced today a brand spanking new partnership with Kidzsmart Concepts, a creative marketing and communications company dedicated to engaging children and families with multi-platform educational resources.

“Kidzsmart provides valuable customer engagement tools to the restaurant industry, and we are excited to leverage their ideas to help restaurants promote their healthful Kids LiveWell menu items and enhance the dining experience for their customers,” said Scott DeFife, Executive Vice President of Policy and Government Affairs for the National Restaurant Association.

Working in collaboration with the Association, Kidzsmart has developed a three-part program of child-focused activities for restaurants that have joined the Association’s Kids LiveWell program, a first-of-its-kind initiative that helps restaurants highlight their healthful menu choices for children and kidults alike.

One Fat Frog • 11473 S. Orange Blossom Trail • Orlando, FL • 407-480-3409