Tom Mitchell, MAFSI Chairman

Tom Mitchell, MAFSI Chairman

Tom Mitchell, TLC Marketing, Calgary, AB serves as the Chairman of MAFSI, the Manufacturers' Agents Association for the Foodservice Industry. He has been a member of the MAFSI Board of Directors since 2013, served as MAFSI National President in 2021 and 2022, and is past chair and member MAFSI's Rep Firm of the Future (RFOF) Committee. He previously was the MAFSI 2016 Conference Chair and Foodservice 101 Chair. He has been a manufacturers’ rep for 38 years and is the president of TLC Marketing in Calgary, Alberta. Prior to becoming a manufacturers’ rep he spent 10 years in Hotel and Restaurant Management.

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Tom Mitchell, MAFSI Chairman
By Tom Mitchell, MAFSI Chairman
on June 13, 2022
I have traveled a lot in the last year, during and post-pandemic. In the US South, the damage has been limited as they were not locked down as hard or for as long. The US North was not so lucky with ...
Tom Mitchell, MAFSI Chairman
By Tom Mitchell, MAFSI Chairman
on September 22, 2021
For all reps of course the situation is not the same but there is a problem. When I make the statement there is only ten months, I am pointing out the fact that since March and the reopening of the ...
Tom Mitchell, MAFSI Chairman
By Tom Mitchell, MAFSI Chairman
on September 01, 2021
MAFSI members have much to look forward to in the coming two quarters, and I left the recent board of directors meeting in Washington state with a sense of pride on behalf of the association for all ...
Tom Mitchell, MAFSI Chairman
By Tom Mitchell, MAFSI Chairman
on July 06, 2021
It has always been difficult to talk about mental health, its personal, its scary and it has huge ramifications. At MAFSI, we had it had it on our issue list for 2020. We recognized that mental ...
Tom Mitchell, MAFSI Chairman
By Tom Mitchell, MAFSI Chairman
on June 03, 2021
It has come to most people’s attention that certain pieces of the foodservice supply chain are being globally inflated. Cold rolled steel is the primary product in this conversation. When we think ...
Tom Mitchell, MAFSI Chairman
By Tom Mitchell, MAFSI Chairman
on June 03, 2021
The Foodservice industry in the last ten years has made a number of technological advances. This includes robots to assist cooking, high speed ovens to increase speed, automatic dispensing systems ...
Tom Mitchell, MAFSI Chairman
By Tom Mitchell, MAFSI Chairman
on June 03, 2021
Note: Tom assumed the MAFSI presidency on Feb. 18, 2021 during the 2021 MAFSI Virtual Membership Meeting. Thank you for the honor of being the MAFSI President. I look forward to the next two years to ...