So I'm working a 2'nd job for a favor for my friend because he needed the help at this protein/diet shake mix place he works at. I don't really need the job..hell I haven't had to clock in to anything in over 6 years because of running my business..but i figured he needed help, I'll help him out for a bit.
So It's been two months so far and I know more than I ever wanted to know about how this crap is made.
Each truck we get of raw ingredients is approx. half a mil. So it's a lot of money coming off these trucks. Each bag of soy protein is about 80$. Fructose (sugar) is about 65$ and then theres other ingredients and the such.
We also get 100% uncut Splenda (not retail stuff) in 20lb boxes. Each lb being worth 6,000$. Just smelling the sweetness out of that box makes me have a tootache!
Well if a bag is damaged upon arrival we dont use it. Obvious health reasons, so we chuck it aside, write it off and that's that. Then comes quality control testing.
Some times they "release" ingredients..even though they tested the WRONG ones. major no-no.
The ones that are legit to be thrown in the blenders we can use..but sometimes it's not the best thing. These bags sometimes sit on old pallets, with rusty nails sticking out poking through. Some people don't care and toss the bag in anyway, even though the bag is contaminated now.
Each ingredient bag that comes in is labled with the date it came in at, exp date and so forth. We GENERALLY try to grab the oldest ones first to use them up..but I've seen bags back in the warehouse that has been there since XMAS 07!
If a blend becomes "quarantined" (because it may have some leftover strawberry flavor in a cookies and cream mix) it gets put back in with the next blend little by little..not so bad really..except some of the stuff they are blending back in has been there since 2005. Yikes. So technically it's exp..with a new exp date on it.
Oh, and I wont mention some of the bugs I've seen in these bags that get blended with it.
Now onto the pay. Each "finished goods" pallet that ships sells for about 90,000$. Each truck shipped holds 44 pallets. 3,960,000$ total. We ship about 7 trucks a day.
Next time you mix some shake mix drink up remember the Behind the Scenes info here. Ick!
P.s. I dropped 1 1/2 tons of cookie crumbs today because the pallet was rotted when I picked it up with my forklift. What. A. Fucking. Mess.
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