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McDonnough spent eight years in quality assurance and then was asked if she'd like to work in Tastykake's research and development unit. Her supervisors thought she'd like the variety and being required to sample new products.

Lemon cupcakes? Those were hers. Pumpkin spice cupcakes, sweet potato pie, caramel apple pie, chocolate Kreamie Juniors — she had a hand in all of those creations, too. Ideas for a new product or flavor can come from anywhere in the Tastykake team. What should it taste like? How should it feel? It was very moist, and every time they would take it out of the pan it would break apart," explained Ridder. The story goes, they did some head scratching at the old Hunting Park Plant, and figured they needed to do some pinching or crimping.

And after that Tastykake made cakes on its first day of business in Now, it produces nearly 5 million cakes, doughnuts, cookies and pies each day. New York State Lottery Drawing. With Pizzi, the board selected a man best known not for his managerial skill, but for the size of his Rolodex and his ability to work a room.

Von Seldeneck defended the decision at the time. New snack products were encroaching on stomachs, wallets and shelf space that had once belonged exclusively to Tastykake: breakfast bars, bags of crackers, flavored nuts, an endless array of chips potato, tortilla, taro, etc. At the upper end of the market, health-conscious snackers began to shun junk brands like Tastykake.

At the lower end of the market, Tasty Baking was losing customers to Little Debbie, a producer of cheaper, if inferior, cakes that give consumers a similar sugar rush. Local Asians eat virtually none, according to former Tasty Baking executives. Tasty Baking had improved its shelf life in the mids with new packaging, and it had also joined its competitors in baking cakes that were packed with preservatives. But margins on the out-of-region sales were relatively low, given the higher distribution costs, and faraway snack consumers unfamiliar with Tastykakes often stuck with their favorites, such as Twinkies.

Executives who worked at Tasty Baking say Watts was positioning the company to be sold. He put short-term sales and cost-cutting ahead of long-term investment — moves designed to make the company more attractive to would-be buyers. Even then, a sale would arguably have been the best option for shareholders. The fact is, regional bakeries like Tastykake are a dying breed: Most have already merged with other companies or been bought by larger conglomerates. In that context, the selection of Pizzi makes a little more sense.

Charlie from the block would never move such an iconic company outside the city. He poured money into marketing and technology, which had been badly neglected under Watts. He experimented with new products. Tasty now sells more than products under its brand name, from brownies to energy bars to chocolate-covered pretzels. And he upgraded both management and the board with experienced food-manufacturing expertise. His signature accomplishment, of course, was cutting the deal that moved Tastykake out of the Nicetown plant and into the Navy Yard.

He convinced Liberty Property Trust to build the factory and lease it to him, thus lowering the amount of cash Tastykake needed to borrow to get the new bakery up and running. And there is perhaps nobody with better connections to the system than Pizzi. Not to mention all the broad, long-term challenges that the entire snack-cake industry is confronting, like changing consumer tastes and tougher nutritional guidelines keeping junk food out of a lot of public schools.

Given all these challenges, perhaps no CEO could have managed to both build a new factory and maintain a healthy bottom line. But some former Tasty Baking executives say Pizzi got in over his head. NBC10 invites viewers to share their favorite Tastykake.

As part of its centennial birthday celebration, the bakery is announcing the introduction of a new, limited edition Birthday Kake Cupcake. Tastykake made cakes on its first day of business in Now, it produces nearly 5 million cakes, doughnuts, cookies and pies each day. Here's a few fun facts about the sweet treats: It would take 14, Tastykake individual pies laid end to end to form a mile and the company bakes , pies each day.

Tastykake was the brainchild of a Pittsburgh baker, Philip J.