Bob Evans Farms’ ties to Texas and its long-ago purchase of the Owens restaurant chain are loosening.
The Columbus-based restaurant and food-production company is closing its Richardson, Texas, plant, transferring some sausage production from there to its plant in Xenia and investing millions in the Ohio plant through April 2015.
Bob Evans plans to spend a total of $14 million to equip its sausage plants in Xenia and Hillsdale, Mich., to absorb the Texas plant’s production, according to a regulatory filing.
“We are currently in the process of evaluating how best and in what amounts we will need to invest in our Xenia and Hillsdale, Mich., plants,” said spokeswoman Margaret Standing in an email. “ We are not currently in a position to know what additional jobs, if any, may be created at Xenia or Hillsdale.”
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