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Article: Stays fresh longer. (Viewpoint).(extended shelf life)(Brief Article)
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- Snack Food & Wholesale Bakery
- Article date:
- March 1, 2002
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Stays fresh longer? Talk about a claim you're not going to see on a loaf of bread anytime soon.
Seriously, let's talk about extended shelf life, or ESL as everyone calls it. Let's boil it all down to the nitty-gritty.
So many times you read about a snack or bakery plant operating efficiently. Production managers often talk about improving line speeds, pounds per manhour, and so on. However, when you boil it down, minimizing stales is one of the quickest ways to improve efficiency.
Simply put, gaining additional shelf life helps you build inventory, consolidate routes, distribute to a larger geographic area and promote more aggressively with ...