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Wise Foods, Inc.
Wise Foods, Inc. is a company based in Berwick, Pennsylvania, that makes snacks and sells them through retail food outlets in 15 eastern seaboard states, as well as Vermont, Ohio, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Washington, D.C. Best known for its several varieties of potato chips, Wise also offers Cheez Doodles, bagged popcorn, tortilla chips, pork rinds, onion rings, ''Dipsy Doodle'' chips, nachos, ''Quinlan'' brand pretzels, and French onion dips. Wise formerly made Cheez Waffies, but the product has since been discontinued. In 2012, Wise Foods was acquired by the Mexican company Arca Continental. History Wise Foods started as "Wise Potato Chip Company", founded in Berwick, Pennsylvania, in 1921 by Earl Wise. He owned Wise Delicatessen and began making potato chips as a way to make use of excess potatoes, initially cooking them in his mother's kitchen, and then selling them to customers in brown paper bags. At the time, potato chips were generally kept in glass ...
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