{"id":5503,"date":"2016-11-22T10:17:08","date_gmt":"2016-11-22T18:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog-prod.qad.com\/blog\/?p=5503"},"modified":"2020-11-06T15:37:01","modified_gmt":"2020-11-06T23:37:01","slug":"manufacturing-food-know-fries-made","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qad.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/manufacturing-food-know-fries-made","title":{"rendered":"Manufacturing Food: Do You Know How Frozen Fries Are Made?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=&#8221;5505&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Have you ever seen the show, &#8220;<\/span><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencechannel.com\/tv-shows\/how-its-made\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How It&#8217;s Made<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">?&#8221; It&#8217;s a great look at the manufacturing process of many of the products we use every day. In my role, as part of the Customer Success Marketing program, I&#8217;m always looking at our list of customers in search of the next great success story to share, and I love looking into what they make. We serve such a wide spectrum of industries, and each is so unique in their manufacturing process.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Manufacturing Frozen French Fries<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As you can imagine there are many producers of french fries. Take QAD customer <\/span><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.farmfrites.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Farm Frites<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for example. They manufacture frozen potatoes of every shape and size. While I haven&#8217;t been to their shop floor, I have seen the episode of &#8220;<\/span><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vjs1LLaxXrA\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How It&#8217;s Made: Frozen French Fries<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8221; which made me think of how their factory probably operates. Watching the potatoes bounce along the conveyor belt as they are cleaned and sorted by shape and size to single out the perfect potatoes to make the perfect fry, it&#8217;s hard to believe the entire process, start to finish, can be done by machine &#8211; and some pretty cool machines at that. 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