Zina B. Groover
Module 1 SLP
Course Number: LOG 501
Dr. Tom G. Javarinis
October 20, 2014
The Potato Chips
According to how products are made. The potato chip became both a national and international sensation when a customer sitting in a restaurant called Moon’s Lake House located in Saratoga Spring, New York. Complained about his french fried potatoes being too thick and sent them back to the kitchen for redoing. The Chef working in the kitchen at that time was George Crum who thought the customer french fried potatoes was cooked perfectly out of spike shaved them paper thinner and sent them back to be served to the complaining customer. The once displeasing customer and his attending parties of associates dining at the restaurant, loved them, which was the beginning of what we call the potato chip. Manufacturing Software
Shortly after Chef George Crum sardonically behavior, which was played a key role in creating the potato chip, so he thought, word began to spread throughout the local population surrounding Saratoga Spring, New York and how good his thin cut potato chip were; folks just loved them. Chef Crum soon opened his own restaurant and due to the overwhelmed host of folks wanting to eat at his restaurant Chef Crum had to establish a policy for not taking any reservations. However, it didn’t keep customers for forming long standing lines, just to take his potato chips. In January 1915, Van de Camp’s Saratoga Chips opened in Los Angeles, California. Manufacturing Software
The first packaging and selling of potato chips begun in 1921, a Grocer by the name of Earl Wise, purchased an overstock of potatoes and had to get rid of them or they would be vulnerable to the everyday climate exposure and will be ruined. So, with his overstock of potatoes he decided to slice them with a cabbage cutter and then fried them using his mother’s and put them in brown
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