Where is lays chips

Workers inspected the chips, which went for 10 cents a piece, before bagging them up. Now, years later, in , not much has changed. The potatoes still come from farmers across America. CEO Eric Halverson said his great-grandpa had started growing potatoes in The potatoes at Black Gold Farms are loaded and trucked two and a half hours north to Perry, Georgia, where 1, workers are employed at just one of Frito-Lay's 30 manufacturing plants.

Quinn said there was a ton of pride felt by the farmers and workers of Frito-Lay, knowing the hard work they put into their products. Doolin was buying the recipe for another American classic: Frito corn chips.

Doolin started making them out of his mother's kitchen. Nearly three decades later, the two of them joined forces to create Frito-Lay. It was Workers inspected the chips, which went for 10 cents a piece, before bagging them up. Now, years later, in , not much has changed. The potatoes still come from farmers across America. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Advance Local.

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Fact-forward news for readers like you who want to know more. Subscribe today. Photo: Ketchum Inc. Tasting Classic Lay's right off the line. Potatoes going into Lay's.