Food & Wine Event Orders Lexus Logo Screen

We are doing more and more customized “logo screens” for customers that want more than just green or black screen to cover the temporary fence that we install. They are asking for ideas that will create a more personalized feeling for the people that walk into the event and display sponsors that are significant or have some special purpose for that special day.

Lexus is one of those special sponsors for this year’s Food and Wine Event at Pebble Beach. As soon as participants walk into the venue they will be surrounded by the Lexus logo and products.

The screen is a brand new black Elite 85 screen made by CI Fabrics out of Southern California. JT Lawson of CI Fabrics recommended a white logo to give it that extra punch. I think that the new screen looks really sharp and that the folks down at Pebble Beach will be impressed.

Environmentally Friendly Toilets Come to the Bay Area

I was just speaking with Sarah Myers of Hartmann Studios in Richmond, CA. We were discussing some of the recent requests that she is receiving from her customers. She mentioned that there are more requests this year for products and services that are environmentally friendly. Specifically, when her clients rent portable toilets they are looking for an alternative that helps the environment.

We offer a chemical free portable toilet that only uses natural ingredients for treating waste. We also have VIP Trailers that only use fresh water and are entirely operated by solar power.

Some portable toilets require a generator but our solar power units can be set up in a remote site and it will run for hours. Our customers love the environmentally friendly options we provide.

We were very excited about being hired to provide the temporary fence and barricade for the 1st annual Food and Wine Event at Pebble Beach. This new event will be hosted on one of the most beautiful coastlines in the world.

The Pebble Beach Food & Wine will be celebrating 35 celebrity chefs and 200 wineries during the four day event. There will be internationally acclaimed wineries and chefs together with California’s regional superstars to create a series of lunches, dinners, wine tastings, cooking demonstrations, and wine auction.

Thus far, we have installed our 6′ event panels and will be attaching our signature black screen to finish the perimeter fence. We are scheduled to bring our green VIP barricade to outline the ticket booths and areas that are for special guests that require a little more privacy.

Wine, Food, and Fun People! What could be better!

I was recently introduced to the folks at Bridge Bank in downtown San Jose, CA and have been extremely pleased with my experience! Jeff Whalen, Dori Hamilton & Kelly McRitchie have treated us like royalty and have delivered on their promises. I would recommend them to any small company that is looking for a partner in their business.

Bridge Bank was recently recognized as one of the best performing full-service business banks in California and the Nation by U.S. Banker magazine in its January 2008 issue.

Bridge Bank ha been genuinely excited about our company and prospects of being the leader in the temporary site services industry in the Bay Area. They recognize the growth that we are experiencing and want to help us push through the milestones that every small company goes through to become a medium to large business.

They understand our needs and we look forward to growing with them.

I just spoke with my good friend Doug Norton who is turning 50 this May and is having a big birthday bash to celebrate. Over 300 guests will be attending the event for Doug and he is a very special guy. Doug has one of those personalities that people just love. He is always the life of the party and he really does have 300 friends!

Doug ordered one of my VIP Trailers that will probably blend into the background and go unnoticed by most of his guests. When there is a special event, wedding or birthday party a VIP Trailer will meet the expectations of the guests for portable sanitation. These trailers have individual stalls and sinks in each door and allow for complete privacy. These trailers really do have it all.

I learned early on that you just do not want to use the non-flushable construction toilet at one of your events. People know the difference and for a little extra money you make all of your guests feel welcomed. We look forward to working with Doug and being a part of his special day.

One of the familiar growing pains that I go through each year is having ensuring that our truck fleet with be reliable and functional during the year.

There are challenges in transporting our temporary fence products and portable sanitation toilets and VIP Trailers. Our products are heavy to carry and bulky in design. You just do not open your trunk of your car and drive to a customers site.

A friend once told me that we are in the “moving business” He was right and we take our delivery commitments very seriously.

We recently purchased a Ford 350 Dual Rear Drive Truck that has the capabilities of pulling any of our 9 trailers in the yard, but more importantly it will do it safely and carry 6 men to the job site at the same time.

In the future, we may have 5 or 6 of these wonderful trucks. They can do just about anything we need. In our business, we need to be versatile and that means investing in trucks that have more than one purpose and weight pulling capacity.

Comprehensive Builders is a contractor from Utah, that specializes in all types construction and design of new facilities that are located in highly visible locations. We received a call from their lead point of contact Danny that had requested information about our services.

He explained that the project was a highly visible property on Mowry Avenue in Fremont, CA and that he would be receiving sign ed contracts within a day and needed temporary fencing and a portable toilet for the project.

We exchanged information and the next day he called back and explained that we had the most competitive full service bid for all of the site services that he needed and that we were to schedule him ASAP.

Hanson & Fitch Temporary Site Services was able to meet his criteria of a complete installation in 48 hours and there will probably be additional fencing that will be needed as the project continues. We are pleased to have been introduced to Danny and his team from Comprehensive Builders and we thank them for their business.

I was talking with one of our long time customers, Shawn Casey at the Pebble Beach Company. We were discussing some of the additional site services we were adding, as we try to do with our customers from time to time.

I explained that we are now offering portable toilets with weekly service in the area and that we were trying hard to grow this new business. Shawn listened and responded with,”We currently have a portable toilet on a trailer and would consider changing to you guys, since we know you will do a good job and the products are brand new”.

I quickly told Shawn that it would be great and that we would get back to him ASAP.

The toilets are no problem, but the trailer was going to need to be a perfect fit for this kind of application. Believe it or not the trailer needs to be stable not just on the back of the truck, but more importanly when someone is inside and the trailer is not connected to the truck.

We found a great fit and our toilet is “getting a set of wheels” as we speak. the trailer is a bright red in color and is licensed by the Department of Transportation and is street legal.

We thank Shawn for his business and look forward to seeing more toilets on trailers in the near future.

Hanson & Fitch installs GPS units in portable toilets

The iButton is a computer chip enclosed in a 16mm thick stainless steel can. it is unique and durable and can travel with a person or object anywhere they go. The steel iButton can be mounted virtually anywhere because it is rugged enough to withstand harsh environments, indoors or outdoors. It is small and portable enough to attach to a key fob, ring, watch, or other personal items, and be used daily for applications such as access control to buildings and computers, asset management, and various data logging tasks.

This technology has allowed us to grow on top of a platform that is smart business. It allows us to do inventory control, distribution of product and services, and control over billing. We can grow as large as we want and still manage to see the details that each customer sees on their respective job site and or event.

This will save the company thousands of dollars a year. The whole system is digitized now - we know where they are at all times and it is all integrated into our billing system.

The Pro Am Golf Tournament is over, but people are still sharing their great Monterey experience!

This years AT&T Golf Event at Pebble Beach drew record crowds. A week of heaven sent weather that made the event extra special.

We met people from all around the San Francisco Bay Area and many mentioned that the energy of the ocean, warm wind, and sunshine put smiles on the faces of most spectators. The best weather was definitely seen on the final days, Saturday & Sunday.

The feedback was that the golf courses were in excellent condition. The announcers of the television broadcast repeatedly said, “…they are in the best shape I have ever seen”.

Along with the manicured lawns of Pebble Beach, Poppy Hills & Spanish Bay, were the friendly staff and employees of all three world class facilities. This year is going to be hard to beat and now it is time to take all the tents, temporary fencing, and grand stands down for another day!