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    Default Can't afford to make Twinkies in California anymore ...

    In a nutshell, the parent company is closing the Wonder/Hostess bakery and the Parisian bakeries in San Francisco. This will permanently unemploy 650 bakery workers. Reasons cited were ...

    - high fixed cost structure (i.e. state and local taxes, mandated state benefit costs)
    - high labor costs (union trucking and services plus $8.50/hour SF minimum wage)
    - rising healthcare and pension costs
    - rising energy costs
    - rising costs of raw materials

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    Default Re: Can't afford to make Twinkies in California anymore ...

    oy. where are they going to be made now, if at all? or do they make them in other places too and they just cut this one?

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    Default Re: Can't afford to make Twinkies in California anymore ...

    ^^^ the news story doesn't really say. It does mention a consolidation, which implies that there are other company owned bakeries that can still serve California ... but probably located in Nevada or Oregon.

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