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> Smashmallow fired the teams who had been slabbing its product. But when the Tanis machine finally arrived at the Wolfgang facility in August 2019 and Hoj's te
by ro_bit 3y ago
> Smashmallow fired the teams who had been slabbing its product. But when the Tanis machine finally arrived at the Wolfgang facility in August 2019 and Hoj's team spun it up, the marshmallow printer failed to print.
Is this a normal practice in food manufacturing when bringing up a new technology? Why wouldn't they keep the hand production for as long as it took to get Wolfgang up? The company was making 15MM, but maybe the margins were still too slim for them to do both?