Happy Thanksgiving - Affiliated Foods Inc
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Happy Thanksgiving - Affiliated Foods Inc
November 2014 Volume 6, Issue2 Happy Thanksgiving In All things give Thanks. AF 1 Thessalonians 5:18 Rosa completed seven years of service with Affiliated in June of this year. Rosa works under the direction of Freddy Jimenez in the Sanitation Department. Freddy tells us that Rosa is one of the most dependable people he knows. Rosa takes care of her area and is always willing to lend a hand where ever needed; and does everything with a smile. Freddy believes Rosa to be an asset to his department and Affiliated, as a whole. Rosa is married to Fernando and they share two... Randy Arceneaux, CEO and President of Affiliated Foods presents the “Employee of the Month” plaque to Rosa Martinez 1 See EMPLOYEE on Page 8 Thanks to all our Customers, Vendors , and Employees for making the Food Service “Wicked Fall Food Show 2014” a howling success! Doug Street General Manager Affiliated Food Service & Sean Wright GVH/Millennium Enrique Aguirre Affiliated Food Service Sales Consultant & Joyce Martin Synergy Sales and Marketing Megg Mathis – Business and Marketing Director Affiliated Food Service Yolanda Davis Affiliated Food Service Health Care Account Manager and Michael Lopez Affiliated Food Service Sales Consultant 2 Christina Avila and Ashley Wells Affiliated Food Service Credit Analyst Warner, his wife, Sharon and Donnie enjoy the party! Employees gather to wish Warner good luck! Donnie and Warner Tim and Warner Chris K. and Warner Remembering good times! Plains Dairy would like to wish Warner Ray a blessed retirement. Warner, now as you retire, we will miss our colleague at work. We hope you have a stress free retirement and a life full of success and happiness. Warner was a Purchaser for the Dairy and has been with us for 7 years. Now that his wife, Sharon has retired, he plans to join her in a new adventure for both of them! Cherie and Warner Warner, you have reached your professional achievements, we hope that you achieve all your dreams! Courtesy of Mary Reed / Plains Dairy 3 November is American Diabetes Month, and with the holidays just around the corner, there is no better time to remind us all that even during holiday season, we can make healthy adjustments to our diets to keep us from being one of the many Americans faced with diabetes every day. To help spread this message, DJ Spinderella is joining the American Diabetes Association this November during American Diabetes Month® by challenging us to begin living a healthier lifestyle through the AmeriNearly 30 million children and adults in the United States have ca Gets Cooking to Stop Diabetes DJ, rapper and producer Deidra "Dee Dee" Roper, also known as diabetes, and another 86 million Americans have pre-diabetes campaign, presented by Sun Life "Spinderella," was one of the three members of all-female hip-hop group and are at risk for developing type 2 diabetes. Recent estiSalt-N-Pepa. Financial. mates project that as many as one in three American adults will have diabetes in 2050 unless we take steps to Stop DiaThis initiative is designed to engage and empower Americans to cook nutritious and delicious food, and encourage them to 4. Get Together Thursdays or Any Day! – This engagebetes. ment will offer ways for residents to implement healthy cookbe more active. Through social media and an interactive People with diabetes are nearly twice as likely to be hospital- landing page on DiabetesForecast.org, the Association will ing activities into their daily lives through “Do-it-Yourself Fundized for a heart attack or stroke; diabetes also causes nearly share healthy cooking tips, diabetes and nutrition facts, reciraisers” called “Cook to Stop Diabetes.” These fundraisers 50% of all cases of kidney failure. More than half of all ampu- pes and more, as well as ideas on how to raise funds to help will be fun parties that can incorporate healthy recipes for tations in adults occur in people with diabetes. More than half Stop Diabetes. family and friends and will also raise money for the Associaa million American adults have advanced diabetic retinopathy, tion. greatly increasing their risk for severe vision loss. About 60-70 We can take part in the challenge to start living a healthier 5. Fact Check Friday – Challenging the public’s percent of people with diabetes have mild to severe forms of lifestyle by participating in the American Diabetes Month’s knowledge about nutrition and diabetes, each Friday a quesweekly activities: nerve damage that could result in pain in the feet or hands, tion will be posted to test diabetes knowledge and encourage slowed digestion, sexual dysfunction and other nerve prob1. Get Moving Mondays – After the weekend, people are people to share it with their friends, family and/or co-workers. lems. not as excited about getting up and going on a Monday. Get Weekend Challenge to Stop Diabetes – Why not take the In addition to the health problems diabetes can cause, it is weekend and use it as an opportunity to get active and help Moving Mondays will provide some easy tips to help Amerialso a very expensive condition to maintain. The American cans get moving and keep up an active lifestyle all week long. raise funds to Stop Diabetes? We will provide fun fundraising Diabetes Association estimates that the total national cost of activities for people to engage in and use their 48 hours to diagnosed diabetes in the United States is $245 billion. Direct 2. Tasty Tip Tuesdays – Many people are afraid of losing participate, or if they are too busy then do the 48 hours to the taste when they make a recipe healthier. Every Tuesday, medical costs reach $176 billion and the average medical donate! the Association will take a traditional recipe and teach people expenditure among people with diabetes is 2.3 times higher For great tips, recipes and more each week, visit the Associathan those without the disease. One in 10 health care dollars how to substitute certain ingredients for healthier options tion’s interactive web page at www.diabetesforecast.org/ADM. To without losing the taste. is spent treating diabetes and its complications, and one in learn more, you can also visit us on Facebook (facebook.com/ 3. What’s Cooking Wednesdays – With Thanksgiving five health care dollars is spent caring for people with diabeAmericanDiabetesAssociation) or call 1-800-DIABETES. kicking-off the holiday season, keeping yourself on track and Source: American Diabetes Association tes. eating healthy is very important. Each Wednesday, the public The good news is that type 2 diabetes, like many of the other will vote on recipes that represent a healthy side dish, appemedical conditions spotlighted in our wellness articles, can be tizer and/or dessert that they would like to see for a holiday prevented by making responsible decisions about our diet and meal. At the end of the month, we will unveil those winning becoming healthier overall through diet and exercise. dishes. Courtesy of Rebekah Blythe / HR 4 AFI Bakery / Deli News Happy Thanksgiving! Most of us will have family gatherings to give thanks to God’s blessings but keep in mind that some of us stay home for the holiday and do not get to go home a good example are people in the military if you have a base near your store cater to them because you know some of them have nowhere to go. This is a great time to promote a good lunch and dinner Thanksgiving special for these customers. Also have plenty of mashed potatoes, green beans, corn, dressing, gravy, cranberry sauce, yams, and a variety of salads available because on the day before and on the big day customers will take everything you have. Offer Kretschmar off the bone ham steaks smoked turkey legs and have a good variety of turkey, ham and cheese sandwiches available for lunch. Customers run out of time and will look for prepared items that are ready to go. tomer over to your deli departments. Let’s all get in the holiday spirit and decorate our departments and get ready for the Holidays. technician; this is impossible, but you can do it. Let me know and I can give you some ideas over the phone or send you pictures of some displays from previous years. God Bless you and your families and have a Happy Thanksgiving! This is football season, so of course don’t forget all the football games on the weekends and decorate displays according to your area. Remember the colleges, universities, and high schools in your area in addition to the professional football games. You need to take advantage of all these opportunities and go for more sales. Remember it is important that we take care of our customers first. We need to provide the best quality of service and provide the best products to our customers; this will keep them Jaime coming back. Thank You Bobby Well November is here and you need to prepare and be ready for sales but you need to make a plan by ordering your pies, dinner rolls, sliced cakes and cream cakes; and don’t forget to order cookies you need to check last year what and how many items you ordered. Also check your supplies so that you have the containers you need and the packaging that you need to put your products in. Remember that November 1st and 2nd are Dia de los Muertos and All Souls Day respectively, especially for those with stores that are in a community with a Hispanic population. You need to have a display of Pan de Muerto. Remember the customers are always right; then we need to go back and analyze our dates on the product for the shelves and showcases. For example your cookies; they have a 7 days shelf life, but the day that we over bake them, then we need to reduce the shelf life; this is going back to basics. We need to make and prepare all products correctly. If a product is not baked correctly then we don’t need to put them out for sale. Also some of the basics that we need to concentrate on is the mark up. I see some stores increase the % markup of the thaw and sell products. Well I am going to tell you that if you mark up between 30 to 40%, you may sell all those items. If you mark up more than 40% (I have seen some stores mark up all the way to 50%) then you will throw a lot of product away or have a lot of shrink. When you have a full bakery and do a lot of bake-off product, you can have shrink of 4% cost, but if you try to cut corners and sell them to your customers this will affect your efficiency because you sell stale product, instead of new product. This is another way that I mean to go back to the basics. Keep in mind that winter has arrived in November and customers are looking for hot items to stay warm soups and menudo are items that do very well. The smell of fresh coffee This is one of the biggest months of and hot chocolate will invite the cus- the year for the bakery department. You all need to plan correctly and have a big display for Thanksgiving. By now I am sure that you all made your pie orders. Check your last year’s sales and see how many you sold; if you ran out order more for this year. You should also check the sales for Christmas week and also if you ran out of some pies last year make sure to order more for this year. I am sorry, but I can’t go to every store and help make a Thanksgiving display for everyone or send a 5 Jaime Ortega / Sales Manager / B/D [email protected] Bobby Pena / Deli Specialist [email protected] Employee of the Month Employee from Page 1. children; Karla, who is 18; and Anthony, who is 10. They love spending time together, especially playing volleyball. The family has a Chihuahua named Pumpkin. Rosa’s favorite meals include Mexican and Chinese food. Rosa’s favorite movie is Titanic starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet. When we asked Rosa who had been the most influential person in her life she told us about her parents. Rosa’s parents have always been supportive of her. They never gave up her and have helped her make good choices. Rosa plans to keep working hard and give her children a better living so they can get an education. Rosa selected gift certificates from Jorge’s Mexican Cantina and will have a designated parking space for the month of November. She will, also, receive an additional 250 safety bonus points. Congratulations, Rosa! Thanks for a Job Well Done! The following employees were also nominated this month. Congratulations to all! Clifford Branum, Juan Estrada and James Lanham. Employee of the Month Rosa Martinez Courtesy of Rita Koontz / HR Spotlight on the Warehouse Please meet Vanse Aguilar. He is an Order Selector working in the Food Service Department under the supervision of Ralph Avalos. He began working for Affiliated on July 22, .2014. In just a short time he has made a great impression on all who works around him. As Ralph said, “Vanse has been with us about 2 1/2 months now...He comes to work with a great attitude and goes the extra mile to get the job done. He is always ready to learn new things. He is also ready to help others whenever the opportunity arises. Congratulations, Lanse! The Affiliated Family News would like to wish you many more years of success. Courtesy of Cynthia Mauricio / WHSE Admin Asst. 6 Above & Beyond At Affiliated Foods, when we hire a new order selector there is a working standard that must be met in the first 60 days of employment. The Warehouse Management System calculates time for each store order based on Engineered Labor Standard. This time standard must be met at 100% by the first 60 days. Once the selector achieves 100% of standard and keeps that standard or above, they become qualified order selectors. This process helps orders to be pulled in a timely manner. November...Above and Beyond… Grocery Top Pay: Tristan Moore Joel Goichea Scott Pantharath Grocery Qualified: Phillip Crawford Robert Cooper Jacob Graves Miguel Lule George Leftrich Librado Alvarez Courtesy of Jimmy Ross / Director of Warehouse Operations, David Trimble / Assistant Director of Warehouse Operations, Enrique Barreras / Dry Grocery Supervisor, Jeffrey Williams / Perishable Supervisor and Israel Guajardo / HBC Supervisor Veteran’s Day - November 11, 2014 This Veteran’s Day let us never forget our brave Military personnel who give their today’s to protect our freedoms for our tomorrows! ~ Unknown Never Forget! 7 Pumpkin Pound Cake 3 1 3 1 3 1/2 1 1 1 1 1 Cups sugar Cup margarine Eggs 16 oz. can pumpkin (solid pack) Cups sifted flour Teaspoon baking powder Teaspoon salt Teaspoon soda Teaspoon nutmeg Teaspoon cinnamon Teaspoon vanilla Cream: Sugar, margarine, eggs, and pumpkin. Add flour, baking powder, salt, soda, nutmeg, cinnamon, and vanilla; just stir until blended. Bake in greased, floured tube pan for 1 hour and 45 minutes at 325°. Becky Shelby Houston, TX For more great Shurfine Recipes check out samplings from the Gardens of Goodness a collection of recipes from heartland America Cookbook. Courtesy of Val Clawson DeJarnett and Western Family Turkey Saving Time Happy Thanksgiving! November 28, 2014, Midnight Don’t forget to turn your scales back 10 lbs.! “THANK YOU” to all who have contributed to the success of the Newsletter”! A special thanks to Dale Thompson and Kevin Fortenberry for their continued support and help! The Affiliated Family News / Cathy Gallivan / [email protected] If you have any thing to contribute please e-mail the “AFI Family News” @ [email protected] 1401 Farmers Avenue Amarillo, TX 79118 806-372-3851 8 “Don’t step on it ...It makes you cry!