[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Yep.

At the potato chip place it is probably unsalted chips first followed by salted and so on down the line.

But they either mixed up the flavoring hoppers or someone was totally illiterate. Maybe both come to think of it.

[blackdog]

Private label food manufacturers manage most production that way. It keeps the costs down by avoiding dedicated production lines, staff, machinery, and maintenance. I used to maintain pouch filling machine lines for oatmeal, hot cocoa, grits, etc.....that ran at 1,100 pouches per minute on radial volumetric fillers. That's 110 cartons a minute. One case every 12 seconds thru the casepacker. One full pallet every three minutes.

Crazy fast. Crazy efficient process control.

Those Smuckers jelly cups, syrup cups, Crystal light cups, and pixie stix you pour into bottled water. All insanely profitable and made at such high speeds you need computer controlled cameras and screens just to see a process played back to you at slow enough speed, so you can make adjustments without blowing the machines up in a crashing train wreck.