The kitchen facility will produce ready-to-eat food products for delivery to the company's 350 locations in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Maryland, Virginia, Ohio and North Carolina. The new facility is expected to create more than 450 new jobs over five years.
"This facility will change the way we do business," says Sheetz president and CEO, Stan Sheetz, in a company statement. "It will allow us to expand our offerings and give more choices to our customers."
Sheetz chairman Steve Sheetz, tells GlobeSt.com that "we've been testing what customers want for some time. We found that, in addition to our made-to-order food program, many of them wanted something on the go, so we're setting up this facility in response to that."
The facility, which broke ground a year ago, was built under the direction of the Dennis Group, a Springfield, MA-based company that specializes in providing planning, architectural, process engineering and construction management services to the food and beverage industries. According to Sheetz, the new building consists of a bakery where the company's rolls and sweet goods will be produced, a refrigerated storage area, office space, a test kitchen and a quality control kitchen as well as trailer docks for loading and unloading.
The state supported the project through an investment of nearly $8 million. The investment included a $500,000 opportunity grant, a $5 million machinery and equipment loan, $2 million in infrastructure and facilities improvement program funds and $200,000 in job training assistance. Gov. Ed Rendell and secretary of community and economic development Dennis Yablonsky were present to cut the ribbon for the facility.
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