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Insight Insider Insight Insider Hill Country Bakery Food Safety Cross-contamination Equipment Sanitation Category Spotlight Research & Development Fresh-cut Fruits Free From Movement Insight Insider: going up, we saw a natural extension of that to offer premium snack cakes." Hill Country Bakery builds a brand name By Ryan Atkinson ill Country Bakery is no stranger to high-quality baked goods and desserts. For years, the San Antonio-based company has provided private label gourmet bars, loaf cakes, crumble cakes and muffins to large foodservice chains, cruise liners, in-store bakeries and - perhaps most notably - leading coffee houses across the country. H Technology Inventory Software were improving their coffee offerings and because the quality of coffee was Customers at c-stores, grocery stores and quick-serve coffee bars were looking for better java, but the level of snacks and cakes to pair with the coffee was not elevating in quality at the same time. With Hill Country's background, the fit couldn't have been any more natural. In turn, the company launched its Coffee House Café brand in late 2013. The line consists of premium pound cakes, loaf cakes, coffee cakes, crumb Many companies might, without blame, be content to simply maintain that level of success behind the scenes. Hill Country, after all, boasts four plants and an off-site frozen warehouse totaling 284,000 sq ft and more than 800 employees. But Hill Country - specifically founders Steve O'Donnell and David Nolan - saw an opportunity to make a name for itself outside the world of private label. "We have a pretty strong background in foodservice and working with coffee chains and we saw that there was a need at the c-store level for improved cake products," O'Donnell says. "C-stores commissary INSIDER * MARCH 2016 * 1

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