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| - This was a great little tour. When you first arrive, you check in at the gift shop which, of course, is good marketing lol. When the tour begins, you are called into a theater to watch a short film about how the Herr's family started their business. Pretty interesting stuff actually. Then, a tour guide introduces themselves and tells you a bit about what to expect on the hour long (give or take) tour. Your first stop is where they make the pretzels. Large machines working on both regular mix and sourdough mixtures. They prepare the dough in 10 pound rings that are formed into nuggets, rods, regular pretzel shapes and other forms. It's cool to see the machines pushing them out so quickly and efficiently. Then, you move on to where they make and box up the other snacks such as cheese curls, corn chips, popcorn, tortilla chips etc. After that, you go to the HUGE warehouse and witness rows and rows and rows of yumminess just waiting for love!the company uses both robots and humans in their production and packaging. The humans are pretty much just quality control people making sure the computers don't mess anything up. Lastly, you go to where the potato chips are made. Fresh potatoes are cleaned, cut and cooked all in the same room. The tour guide gets a tray full of fresh chips and the guests can help themselves to some fresh, warm samples. Quite delicious. What impressed me the most about this company is, that they have almost no waste. The items that are broken or unusable are gathered up and taken to the local Herr's Angus Cattle Ranch just down the road. They'd cattle eat all the scraps. And, the same water that is used to clean the potatoes is recycled and used to irrigate the existing potato crops. Herr's is a very Green and environmentally friendly company. And, being a freebie myself, I was super impressed. They should let the world know about that. When the tour is over, they send you through the gift shop with two free small bags of chips to take with you. They have every variety of snack available for purchase along with shirts, mugs, trinkets and such. There's also a section of discount snacks that are cheaper for a wide range of reasons such as improper weight, too much flavor seasoning, items that may expire prior to the stamped expiration dates, unusual flavors, etc. We bought several bags from the discount area, and we haven't found them to be any different then their regular stock. There's also a small food area for soft drinks and lite foods like hot dogs if you need anything to eat prior to the tour.
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