Perfect Snacks Scaled Production From Seven Million to 20 Million Bars
Leigh Keith · Perfect Snacks: Bill and Leigh Keith · Jun 9, 2025 · at 57:27
Leigh Keith, co-founder of Perfect Snacks, discusses how finding semi-automated pressing machines on YouTube allowed them to scale internal manufacturing before securing co-packers.
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“The last year we made product with rolling pins. We produced seven million bars, and we were then able to convert to these small pieces of equipment, and we were able to scale that little 5000 square foot kitchen to produce twenty million bars the last year we were producing in that kitchen.”
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