On a typical production day, workers at the Uncle Charley’s Sausage plant in Vandergrift make 17,000 pounds of plump, pink sausages in neat casings. But they pushed that to 25,000 pounds a day in the past few weeks to meet increased demand from Labor Day holiday picnics, on top of the brand’s inclusion in the Giant Eagle weekly ad flier and in a Shop ‘n Save two-day sale.
“That was a good test for us,” said Len Caric, president and CEO of the company since January.
It would be pretty hard to pick up new accounts and get the sausage into grocery stores up and down the East Coast and into the Midwest if the plant couldn't actually step up production to fill additional orders.
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