I remember when Pepsi got into the restaurant business. I remember Pepsi had Pizza Hut and Coke bought Pizza Inn (a better pizza imvho) at some point Coke let the majority of the Pizza Inns die out.
PepsiCo stayed in the fast food biz until they sold their fast food businesses to buy Nabisco.
I remember a Yum foods from a documentary. It had it’s founding back in the 1930’s. What they sold and where I can’t remember.
Talking about food, Campbell’s won the canned soup war here in the US but Heinz kept dominance in Europe. Campbell’s still sells less in Europe than Heinz does.
The Frito Lay company was a post WW2 marketing agreement between Herman Lay and Fritos founder Charles Doolin. They agreed to market the others product beside their own in each territory. That gave Lay access to Doolins western market and Doolin access to Lays eastern market. The two companies had two products; Lays chips and Fritos corn chips. About that time the War Department called Doolin and practically paid him to take possession of tons of powdered cheese from war production. The cheese doodle was born.
AFAIK the Frito Lay company was the only large company to come out of that era by two companies working together. Everything else was dog eat dog.
Great stuff!
Love the history!
Great stuff!
Love the history!
I remember White Castle.
Best memories ever.
Have been making Thanksgiving stuffing out of White Castles burgers for almost a decade.