This is the oddest business-expansion story I've seen in a while:
BOONVILLE, Ind. (AP) — A southern Indiana company that cooks hard-boiled eggs for restaurants, hospitals, universities and food manufacturers says its proposed $4 million expansion would allow it to become the world's top hard-boiled egg producer, turning out more than 1 million of the eggs a day.
Prime Foods Inc. of Boonville expects the expansion to start this fall and be completed by February. The expansion will add 20,000 square feet to the current 60,000-square-foot Boonville plant about 15 miles east of Evansville.
It's always inspiring to read about the entrepreneurial zeal that results in finding a niche market and filling it, especially when the result is more Hoosier jobs. But, seriously? A company can thrive and fill an 80,000-square-foot plant by boiling eggs for institutions just too darn busy to take on that complicated and time-consuming task? Wonder how much that adds to our food bills.
And there is this tidbit at the end:
The company says it is busiest during "salad season," which runs from April until September.
There is a "salad season"? Who knew?
