One of the outings we went on while we were in Utah was to the Mrs. Field's cookie packaging factory. We took a tour of their facility. They actually do a lot of stuff there, most of it at Christmas time. In fact of the 10 million cookies they bake and ship each year, 8 million are baked and shipped in a 3 week period at Christmas. Plus there is all the packaging, a lot of it done by hand, gift wrapping, silk screening of tins and boxes, photo editing for cookies iced with edible ink, and stamped ribbons and then sorting for the FEDEX, UPS or USPS. Who knew they did so much?
The coolest part? The ginourmous freezer where they store cookies and cookie dough: 20,000 square feet of very, very cold warehouse space. They drive forklifts into it to shelf the cookies!
Anyway, the kids really liked it. It was much more interesting than I anticipated. And of course there are the free cookies at the end. Not bad for a half hour's worth of entertainment. Just sign up online. I'd recommend going if you are in Salt Lake and need something to do.
I especially love the hairnets!!
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