Preferred Suppliers
One of the many benefits of being a FIRA Member Restaurant is the ability to take advantage of the special discounted rates that FIRA has negotiated with our Preferred Suppliers. Learn more on how to become a Preferred Supplier.
| Suppliers | Contact Information | Description |
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| ALL Negotiated Program Details for FIRA Restaurants | Control your operating expenses with these negotiated programs from FIRA! |
Preferred Suppliers are required to provide a value-added professional service exclusive to the FIRA Restaurant Group. These suppliers have been selected based on the quality of their product and/or service, their interest in supporting your Association, and the special deals they are willing to offer. NEGOTIATED PROGRAMS FOR FIRA MEMBERS:
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| Atlantic News | Atlantic News |
FIRA MEMBER RESTAURANTS RECEIVE A: 10% Discount or a 20% Ad enlargement! For well over thirty-one years, the Atlantic News has long been the Independent Voice of the New Hampshire Seacoast. Known as the exclusive community paper of the greater New Hampshire Seacoast, the Atlantic News features community news, notes, entertainment, local sports and much more. Now redesigned, and offered FREE in supermarkets and high-traffic areas across Rockingham County and neighboring regions, the Atlantic News is growing faster than ever. About Us... Atlantic News.Com and BeachNews.Com is part of Atlantic Publications and Sunday Advertiser Inc. the last locally owned and operated weekly newspaper on the New Hampshire Seacoast. The Atlantic News is published every Thursday. The Beach News, our weekly summer publication appears prior to Memorial Day Weekend to the Hampton Beach Seafood Festival (the weekend after Labor Day). Our papers primarily cover the Seacoast Towns of Hampton, Hampton Falls, North Hampton and Seabrook, as well as the neighboring towns of Newburyport and Salisbury Massachusetts; Barrington, Exeter, Greenland, Kensington, Lee, Newington, Newcastle, Portsmouth and Rye New Hampshire; and Kittery and York Maine. We also take contributions further afield than that as well. |
| Eastern Marketing Services |
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FIRA MEMBER RESTAURANTS RECEIVE A 10% DISCOUNT! For over twenty years, Eastern Marketing Services has served the Greater Seacoast and Concord areas as the leader in direct mail marketing. With several hundred local and national clients, Eastern Marketing has made it their priority to produce effective ads that are attractive and professional at an excellent rate. Eastern Marketing Services makes the following commitment to its clients:
Consider this - if more people were aware of your products or services, how might they respond to what you offer? Eastern Marketing can present your message to them. |
| Elissa Von Letkemann Art & Design |
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Elissa Von Letkemann Art & Design specializes in print and packaging and has won several accolades and awards. Von Letkemann has worked with Stonewall Kitchen, most notably as the lead designer on the Barefoot Contessa line of gourmet foods, Boston's Healthworks Fitness Clubs, The Christmas Tree Shops, and BJ's. Recent projects include high-end wedding invitations, refreshing the visual identity of The Lollipop Tree, labels for a new line of wildflower extract products from Sweet Grass Farm, and the 2009 summer identity of the RiverRun Bookstore in Portsmouth, NH. Her design work has appeared in numerous catalogs, newspapers and magazines. With her design expertise and a masters degree in graphic design from Boston University, Elissa Von Letkemann lectures on the History of Graphic Design, most recently at Wiggin Memorial Library in Stratham, NH and she teaches graphic design at The New England School of Art & Design at Suffolk University. Also a visual artist, her artwork has appeared in gallery shows and private collections in New York, NY, Cambridge, MA and Portsmouth, NH. |
| Favorite Foods, Inc |
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The Favorite Foods story began 18 years ago. Jeff Barstow, founder and president of Favorite Foods, started the company with a van and a plan to distribute dry goods to area restaurants. He had no direct distribution experience, and had never owned his own company, but he was confident he could service the restaurants of the NH and ME Seacoast. After being won over by customers visited during a brief vacation to the area, Jeff's brother Chris joined Favorite Foods to serve as the Vice President of Sales. At the time, Favorite Foods' home was a leased 5,000 square foot unit in a multi-tenant building on West Road in Portsmouth, NH. Five years later, Favorite Foods was moved to a leased 15,000 square foot facility just off the Spaulding Turnpike in Newington NH. Then, in 1999, Favorite Foods purchased and moved into its current facility, a 22,000 square foot building in Somersworth, NH. The company has enough room to add 33,000 square foot of addition warehouse space on the existing lot as well as more room for expansion an the additional four acres of land recently purchased across the street. The success of Favorite Foods is about much, much more than it's rapidly expanding product line and growing warehouse however. From the very beginning, Jeff and Chris have understood that they only way they would distinguish themselves from the more established distributors was to offer superior service. This sentiment is evident when speaking with any of the loyal Favorite Foods customers. A philosophy and commitment to acknowledge and meet each restaurant's individual needs is demonstrated each and every day by all members of the Favorite Foods team. Also representative of this philosophy is FIRA, the Favorite Independent Restaurant Association, which was begun by Favorite Foods in 2001. Today, Favorite Foods has grown into a $20 million/year broadline foodservice distributor with 32 employees running 7 trucks from their 22,000 square foot distribution center. Geographic coverage includes Concord and Manchester, NH. In the process the company has earned an enviable reputation for its customer driven focus and progressive approach to doing business. |
| Foster's Daily Democrat | Foster's Daily Democrat |
15% DISCOUNT for FIRA Member Restaurants! Foster's newspapers, online and special section products reflect the largest penetration of readership and newspaper distribution in the Seacoast, Southern Maine and Lake Region areas. In one week, we can reach more than 450,000+ readers with our eight newspaper publications, and over four million monthly page views on fosters.com and citizen.com. By using our Foster products, your ad dollars will go further for better value and results. In order to show our support here at Foster. s Daily Democrat, we are offering all FIRA Restaurant Member 15% off our open rate.* (does not apply to current contract holders). If you would like more information with regards to advertising in one of our eight newspapers, our monthly special sections or our success website (www.fosters.com), please feel free to contact Foster's Daily Democrat.s advertising department @ 603.742.4455. Here's to supporting our local communities. Bon Appetit. Tim Brady, Ad Director, George J. Foster & Co., Inc. |
| Golbon |
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Our Members rely on Golbon to be an experienced extension of their staff in all areas of the foodservice industry: purchasing, sales, operations, marketing, logistics, and training. I invite you to read on and investigate all of the advantages we offer our members. Formed in 1963 to provide foodservice distributors premium frozen fruits, vegetables, and potatoes through forward warehousing programs, Golbon has emerged as a full service, broad line purchasing and marketing group for independent foodservice distributors. We have positioned ourselves strategically and today we are one of the country's fastest growing marketers, and are at the cutting edge of the foodservice industry. We are a Buying/Marketing group for independently owned foodservice, c-stores, co-op and system distributors. One hundred and sixty distributors make up the membership of Golbon and we cover nearly all of the 50 states, Puerto Rico and Guam. |
| Goodwin & Associates Hospitality Services and Mystery Shopper Program | Goodwin & Associates Hospitality Services and Mystery Shopper Program |
FIRA MEMBER RESTAURANTS RECEIVE A 10% DISCOUNT! Your Partner in the Industry. It's more than people expect from a recruitment agency. Some may say having personnel with experience in the hospitality industry is just common sense. And we couldn't agree more. |
| Heartland Payment Systems |
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As one of the nation's leading independently owned payment processors, Heartland handles all elements of both credit and debit card transaction processing as well as a complete line of payroll services that make one-stop payment processing a reality for our merchants. Credit & Debit Card Proccessing Heartland offers a complete suite of payment solutions specially tailored to the needs of retailers, restaurants, and the hospitality industry. We process all major credit cards, 24-hours per day, every day of the year.
Transactions involving these cards are efficiently processed on all major processing networks including our own, state-of-the-art HPS Exchange. As one of the nation's leading payment processors, Heartland handles all elements of both credit and debit card transaction processing offering a host of services that make one-stop payment processing a reality for our merchants.
And, most importantly, you have access to a real person in your community...your local Heartland Relationship Manager. These individuals depend on your continuing satisfaction for their ongoing success and they are there to help you with questions, training and any other issues that may affect your credit and debit card transactions. You have secure, online access to your account activity from any computer with an Internet connection. You also have 24-hour, toll-free phone access to our customer service team to help you with any technical questions you may have. Heartland's online Merchant Center gives you instant access to your account activity including:
For a look at the many other features available, take the Merchant Center Tour by clicking on the tour graphic above. Additionally, Heartland provides the following time and money-saving benefits to you:
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| Portsmouthnh.com |
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Local Bites. Local Sites. More Diners In Your Restaurant. That's Delicious! When seacoast visitors and locals get hungry and want to check out a menu or dining prospects, PortsmouthNH.com is the website where they whet their appetite. We rank No. 1 in searches for "restaurants" and "dining" for Portsmouth, Dover, Hampton, York and many other Seacoast towns on Google, Yahoo, MSN and AOL. Each month our dining guide receives more than 15,000 unique page views (5/08). |
| Profit Point |
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Our goal is to provide ourmerchant clients with products and services that add significant value to their business by:
The Company - Headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, ProfitPoint, Inc., is a payment services company that markets value-added, non-cash payment products and services to small and medium-sized retailers and restaurants. The Company was founded in November 2003 by several veterans of the payment services industry to take advantage of the growing number of merchants that have not been offered affordable stored value card solutions by their existing payment processing partners. The Company's primary products are gift and loyalty card programs designed to increase customer traffic, generate incremental sales, encourage repeat business, and reduce the risk of shrinkage and exposure to fraud. The Company supports these products with responsive customer service, merchant education, and comprehensive transaction processing services for all forms of non-cash payment. |
| Seacoast Media Group |
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FIRA MEMBER RESTAURANTS RECIEVE: 15% Discount on Ads in all SMG publications including the Portsmouth Herald, Spotlight, Hampton Union, Exeter Newsletter, and York County Coast Star. Seacoast Media Group, in business for over 150 years is dedicated to working with each of their clients in a proactive and consultative manner. They realize that your advertising and marketing needs are important to the success of your business and are committed to helping your business thrive. In addition please note that SMG offers a full range of advertising services that target Seacoast new Hampshire and Southern Maine, including:
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| Simply Green Biofuels |
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Is Your Fuel Green? As locally owned, independent businesses you all understand the importance of shopping local whenever possible. The same applies for the fuel industry. By fueling your business, home, or diesel vehicle with Simply Green you are not only supporting the 17 employees of Simply Green and their families, but you are supporting an additional 30+ employees and their families who all live, shop and eat in the Seacoast area as well. Simply Green’s biofuel is sourced locally and comes from a Newburyport, MA based supplier. Most of the crude bio that they pick up and refine comes from Smart Fuel, located in Seabrook, NH. Some of you already have your used fry-o-later oil picked up by Smart fuel. For those of you who do not, we sincerely hope that you consider this as a viable option- one that has no cost to you. Your used fry-o-later oil (which is refined to a second generation ASTM spec’d fuel) is the key to a local, sustainable, more efficient fuel that allows all of us to decrease our dependency on foreign oil. This is the main ingredient in the production of our BioHeat®. BioHeat® is an alternative to #2 heating oil that is cleaner burning, more efficient, requires no changes to your current system and costs the same (often less with efficiency factored in) as #2. Simply Green has become the specialty provider of alternative fuels on the Seacoast with a focus on Bioheat® for home heating and Biodiesel for transportation. We offer 24/7 emergency service as well as annually scheduled maintenance performed by a professional and friendly service staff member. Our current service area is from Newburyport, MA to Kennebunk, ME and west to Manchester, NH. Because we are all in this together and we all know the importance of supporting our local businesses, Simply Green Biofuels would like to extend a discount on BioHeat® to all members of FIRA and to their employees. The Offer: No System Changes! Please contact Simply Green Biofuels to take advantage of this program. You can contact us via phone at 603.430.9919 or via email at gogreen@simplygreenbiofuels.com. |
| Tapley Insurance Agency, Inc. |
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Wendy Tapley opened Tapley Insurance in February, 1994 at 18 York Street in York Maine. We started with one rented office, one desk, one phone, no employees and no clients. Our first client walked into the office on York Street as we were setting it up – since then we’ve placed hundreds of insurance policies for our clients throughout Maine, New Hampshire and Massachusetts. In 1999 Tapley purchased the building at our current location at 300 York Street in York. There are now seven employees, six of whom are licensed insurance agents, providing personal and commercial insurance services. Tapley Insurance is an independent insurance agency and a Sevigney Group affiliate. This affiliation gives Tapley access to many insurance markets and offers the ability to negotiate competitive insurance premiums and programs with our insurance carriers – all while maintaining our local focus and independence. We are the endorsed insurance provider for the Home Builders and Remodelers Association of Maine. Wendy Tapley holds the designation of Certified Insurance Counselor, and Christine Huntress, Tapley’s office manager and a Personal Lines Account Manager holds the designation of Certified Insurance Service Representative. Tapley Insurance Agency, Inc. |
| Taste of the Seacoast |
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The word is out: Taste is the place! We’ve got so many new things cookin’ this time around with more bang for your buck! As an advertiser in Taste, we want to bring more people through your doors with even more exposure for your business. Advertise now and you’ll receive twice the exposure: a full color ad in the magazine, an online listing, and an ad and link on our new website, www.tasteoftheseacoast.com, which is receiving an average of 250,000 hits per month and growing. In addition to the 25,000 copy distribution of the summer issue, your listing/link on our website will receive tremendous exposure from the huge amount of traffic that’s driven there daily and from our What’s Cookin’ email newsletter we send out every month to over 7,000 subscribers. Plus, the summer issue will now have more bonus distribution to even more newsstands, hotels, B & B’s, spas, and culinary events throughout the Seacoast and northern New England, targeting traveling tourists that are looking for a great place to dine out—your place. The Grand Summer issue will now feature over 24 new features about food, wine and everything culinary with our ever expanding star-studded lineup of acclaimed writers, photographers and chefs. We’ve also partnered with over 20 food and wine events to promote the magazine and website; and new appearances are lined up on air again with NECN TV Diner, My TV and local radio. We’ve already established over 50 reciprocal links with local and regional media, businesses, organizations and events in the past three months and the numbers continue to grow. Our promotional giveaways have attracted thousands of readers to the magazine and visitors to the website. Taste Magazine and our website is rapidly establishing itself as THE place to go to when you want more information about dining out, food and wine, what’s happening, what’s hot and what’s going on. As the demand for more grows, Taste will be there to inform, educate and report on what the public wants, when they want it, and what they are looking for... you! |
| TRAVELHOST of New Hampshire Magazine |
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Advertising in TRAVELHOST of NH gives you the opportunity to reach more than 1.3 million NH travelers behind the "do not disturb" sign getting the consumers’ attention at the time and place when they are making their buying decisions. New Hampshire’s largest in-room hotel distribution network allows you to reach everyone from the high-end, upscale traveler to the business traveler to the leisure traveler. By targeting the traveler you are connecting with consumers more likely to make impulse-buying decisions than consumers immersed in a sedentary and predicable home environment. More than 33 million travelers visit New Hampshire annually with an economic impact of greater than $4.2 billion. TRAVELHOST of NH can offer the members of Favorite Independent Restaurant Association (FIRA) the opportunity to connect with New Hampshire’s travelers - a population proven to be more relaxed and open to trying next experiences than locals embed in a sedentary and predictable home environment. TRAVELHOST of New Hampshire magazine is distributed directly into more than 7,200 hotel rooms throughout New Hampshire reaching more than 1.3 million travelers annually. Our unique in-room distribution network allows your advertisement to reach the traveler at the time and in the place where they are making their buying decisions. To find out more about advetising with TRAVELHOST please contact: Lisa O’Brien 260 Campbell Street |
| Valcom Internet Services |
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FIRA MEMBER RESTAURANTS RECIEVE a 10% Discount on Website Development from Valcom Internet Services About Our Company Branded Gift Certificate Solutions Our branded gift certificate solution is a portal that provides this solution for your web site. Unlike other gift certificates solutions, you do absolutely nothing other than greet your customers when they redeem them. We provide all the necessary elements from accepting orders, creating your gift certificates, online securities and shipping and handling to your customers. Our solution even pays you immediately upon the redemption of the gift certificate. No verification process. As soon as you receive a gift certificate you get paid. Designed to look like your own our gift certificate solution is unmatched in the industry and provides your company to take advantage of the number one seller on the internet. |
| WXGR, The Gourmet Lounge | WXGR, The Gourmet Lounge |
WXGR 101.5 FM is a not for profit broadcast radio station licensed to Dover, NH To request tickets for any WXGR event or party please click HERE |
Eastern Marketing Services
Elissa Von Letkemann Art & Design
Favorite Foods, Inc
Golbon
Heartland Payment Systems
Portsmouthnh.com
Profit Point
Seacoast Media Group
Simply Green Biofuels
Tapley Insurance Agency, Inc.
Taste of the Seacoast
TRAVELHOST of New Hampshire Magazine
Valcom Internet ServicesFor more information on FIRA, please contact us at info@localflavor.org or call us at
1-877-EAT-FIRA (1-877-328-3472).
