Maintaining traditional European bread baking processes using stone hearth ovens, European/Italian recipes, formulas and old-world flavor, Turano Baking Co., Berwyn, Ill., has been expanding its artisan-quality product line nationally. We celebrate the 50th anniversary of this growing company, which is smoothly transitioning into its third generation of family owned and operated management.
Expanded several times, Turano Baking Co.’s Berwyn, Ill., headquarters production plant features three fully-automated makeup lines and three semi-automated lines that can produce some 200 stock-keeping units overall and generate as many as 150 types of fresh products each day. Starting out as a 2,000-sq.-ft. storefront in the early 1960s, the facility now is a 185,000-sq.-ft. dynamo of action.
In today’s world, it’s tough enough just to find people to fill certain permanent roles, but very easy to fill them from outside of the fence line. Contributing columnist Jeff Dearduff suggests a call of duty.
Contributing columnist Jeff Dearduff says the “new kids on the block” may not have what it takes to successfully work in the real world. But for some, it may just take a bit of attention, training and persistence.