Girl Scout Cookie Baker Reportedly Struggling to Keep Pace with Demand
According to reports, the bakery used by the scouts to produce the cookies for the annual program, has fallen behind on its production throughput, most recently set back even further by severe weather and subsequent power outages the weekend of March 5.
The Girl Scouts have grown frustrated with Ferraro-owned Little Brownie Bakers, which cited mechanical issues for some of the throughput issues. The news report goes on to state that this is the third year in a row that the baker has struggled to keep up with cookie production, though it has shipped more than 84 million packages of cookies to troops this year so far.
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Andy Hanacek
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Andy Hanacek has covered meat, poultry, bakery and snack foods as a B2B editor for nearly 20 years, and has toured hundreds of processing plants and food companies, sharing stories of innovation and technological advancement throughout the food supply chain. In 2018, he won a Folio:Eddie Award for his unique "From the Editor's Desk" video blogs, and he has brought home additional awards from Folio and ASBPE over the years. In addition, Hanacek led the Meat Industry Hall of Fame for several years and was vice president of communications for We R Food Safety, a food safety software and consulting company.