Hostess Saves Twinkies By Automating, Fires 94% Of Their Workforce (washingtonpost.com)

An anonymous Slashdot reader writes: Where Twinkie once employed 22,000 workers in more than 40 bakeries, their workforce is now down to just 1,170, reports the Washington Post, relying mostly on robotic arms and other forms of automation. "This 500-person plant produces more than 1 million Twinkies a day, 400 million a year. That's 80% of Hostess' total output -- output that under the old regime required 14 plants and 9,000 employees."

"We like to think of ourselves as a billion-dollar startup," Hostess chief executive Bill Toler said Tuesday, announcing that Hostess Brands, which had twice filed for bankruptcy, now plans to become a publicly-listed company valued at $2.3 billion.

Comments

I Know Where The 22,000 Went!

[moehoward]

They are all walking my neighborhood playing Pokenmon Go. Every freaking one of them.

But really, 22,000 humans making Twinkies and Ding Dongs is a major waste of humanity. I could justify having like 13,500 making Snowballs, cuzz those rocked.

I get really strange results in 2016 when I Google twinkie, snowball, ding dong, and cupcake. Mom!!!!!

Re:Boycott All hostess produsts

[burtosis]

Thanks for the info, i will now boycott all hostess products. Twinkies suck anyways lol haven't eaten one in 20 years.

Go ahead and eat one of those still left in your pantry, 1996 was a good year for twinkies.

Re:Boycott All hostess produsts

[mrbester]

There'll be a new sub-niche: Vintage Twinkies. Magazines will recommend years to get and which soda to eat them with. New fashionable eateries will pop up with a Twinkie list instead of wine: "Do you have the '96?" "Sorry, sir, we've run out, however I recommend the '01" "How about the '92?" "I'll need a credit card before I can serve you that"

Re:The Taste must have been fired also

[cyberzephyr]

Who cares when you're stoned out of your mind? And besides, they did taste good. I used to buy their stuff by the truckload. They only went broke because I left the country.

Hey, i thought that was me...

Re: The Taste must have been fired also

[nospam007]

"They used real cream back in the 1960's."

Hardly. I ate a few from the early sixties yesterday, and they tasted just like the 'new' ones.

Re:Nice, but try answering the question.

[Gojira Shipi-Taro]

Perhaps the degree in Communications wasn't the best idea for them?

Not all University Grads are created equal. Some of them half-assed and partied their way to an easy degree, which is worth every bit of the effort they put into it.