Bacon beginnings

摘要

In the unassuming city of Frontenac, a rural town in southeastern Kansas that's situated in a region flanked by railroad tracks and perhaps better known in past decades for the prevalence of strip mining for coal, SugarCreek has quietly operated one of the Cincinnati-based company's most productive bacon processing plants since 1982. Inside the plant, just west of Highway 69 and about 120 miles south of Kansas City, the 112,000-sq.-ft. plant is a well-orchestrated processing operation that churns out millions of pounds of raw and pre-cooked bacon strips and mountains of bacon bits. Diversity and flexibility define the operations at the plant, where during a recent tour it quickly became evident that SugarCreek is happy to play the role of co-processing partner to most of the best known retail bacon brands in the industry and on the menus of household foodservice companies.