Bakers thinking of expanding into niche product categories—bars, cakes, muffins and hand-held ethnic foods, for instance—don’t have to worry about finding the right equipment for the job. Some equipment manufacturers have been offering machinery for years capable of producing and handling such products.
Designed in the late 1960s for hand-held fruit pies, Colborne Foodbotics’ T-28000 turnover system produces ethnic turnover products, including calzones, empanadas, pierogies and Jamaican beef patties pies, according to Rick Hoskins, director of sales and marketing at the Lake Forest, Ill., company.