Taylor Fresh Foods shows progress after fire

Taylor Fresh Foods Inc. BB #:154001 is ahead of schedule on demolition and rebuilding the Salinas, CA, foodservice processing facility that suffered a fire in April.

In a video released this week, Taylor Fresh Foods showed how it successfully completed its post-fire contingency plan. It shifted volume from the damaged building to two others in Salinas and other facilities in California and Arizona and never stopped delivering product to customers.

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The April fire at the Abbott Street foodservice production plant occurred during its offseason, so it was closed for the winter, and all employees were safely evacuated.

A few days after the fire, Bruce Taylor, chairman and CEO of Taylor Fresh Foods told local news that the fire caused a near total loss, and engineers were working on plans to rebuild.

“We believe by this time next year we’ll have a new plant up and running,” he said in mid-April.