Central Restaurant Products
Carrie Shambarger is an experienced professional in category management and marketing, currently serving as Senior Category Manager at Central Restaurant Products since 2000. In this role, Carrie develops and presents semi-annual strategies to achieve sales and margins goals, oversees product sourcing, and has held various positions including chief promotions coordinator and project coordinator. Carrie transitioned from Marketing Specialist Lead, where responsibilities included organizing team workloads and conducting meetings, and was one of the first members of the Category Management team when it was established in 2006. Previous experience includes serving as an Executive Assistant at the American Red Cross (Greater Arkansas Chapter), where duties involved preparing reports and managing donor interactions. Carrie holds a Master of Library & Information Science from Indiana University Indianapolis and a Bachelor of Science in Emergency Management and Spanish from Arkansas Tech University.
Central Restaurant Products
We equip people who feed the world! We provide all the foodservice equipment and supplies a foodservice establishment needs to thrive. Originally founded in 1981 as a 100%-based print catalog company, we’ve grown into a leading distributor. We still publish our print catalog, in addition to curating the best solutions for our customers with our user-friendly website and internal sales team to ensure our customers get personalized assistance to make the right decisions for their unique needs. We also stock thousands of our top-selling items in our onsite warehouse to provide same-day shipping to quickly meet customer needs, as well as working with our vendor partners to secure competitive pricing and promote emerging industry trends. Our assortment spans both front- and back-of-house essentials, including cooking equipment like ranges, fryers, and ovens; refrigeration such as reach-in refrigerators and freezers, walk-in coolers, bottle coolers, draft beer dispensers, display merchandisers, prep tables; dining room furniture; shelving and storage solutions; dishwashers; drinkware; dinnerware; and so much more. We tailor our assortment to meet key demands of all commercial foodservice operations. These include, but are not limited to, restaurants, K-12 school cafeterias, colleges and universities, correctional facilities, and government and military operations. Our team operates with a unique set of customer-focused values that make us a leader in the foodservice industry.