AgraWest now a Major Supplier to KFC

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In the USA, KFC serves steaming hot mashed potato with their finger-lickin' good chicken.

In the USA, KFC serves steaming hot mashed potato with their finger-lickin' good chicken.

July 07, 2008

In the USA, KFC serves steaming hot mashed potato with their finger-lickin' good chicken. If you eat at KFC restaurants on the eastern seaboard of the USA, the mashed potato you are served originates in Prince Edward Island and is made by AgraWest Foods in Souris, PEI.

Food Scientists at the Food Technology Centre worked with Jamie Trainor, plant manager at Agrawest Foods, to develop a high quality instant mashed potato mix made from dehydrated potato granules. A convenient, cost effective, and tasty product was prepared into a prototype batch and presented to KFC's purchasing team.

Recently, KFC has increased their volume and now AgraWest is supplying KFC with 200,000 kg of dehydrated mashed potato granules every month that are prepared in their restaurants by adding hot water. This product is a significant business for AgraWest which employs 100 people in Souris, PEI.

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  • AgraWest Foods

    Agrawest is a manufacturer of Potato Granules located in Prince Edward Island (PEI), Canada. Since 2000, Agrawest Foods is a subsidiary of Idaho Pacific Corporation. 

  • Idaho Pacific Corporation

    Idaho Pacific is a manufacturer of Dehydrated potato flour, potato flakes and potato granules. Idaho Pacific acquired AgraWest Foods in 2000 and a potato flakes producing facility in Center, Colorado in 2002.

  • KFC

    KFC has more than 18,000 restaurants in 115 countries across the globe. And in quite a few U.S. cities, KFC is teaming up with sister restaurants, A&W, All-American Food™, Long John Silver's, Taco Bell and Pizza Hut, selling products from the popular chains in one convenient location.

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