By Lina Khouri Sometimes it helps to dismantle something to learn how each part works. This was the case for David French and his education in associations. He currently heads the government relations unit at the $10 million International Franchise Association and he actually helped create his previous association, the International Foodservice Distributors Association. Called the Food Distributors International when French joined in 1998, he saw its membership slowly divide. It represented “two halves” of the wholesale food industry. More families were eating out, so FDI’s members involved in distributing food to restaurants were becoming more lucrative, while companies… Read More