Halfway through the family-owned Baker Cheese Inc. plant in St. Cloud, Wis., you’ll come upon a kind of magical lazy river of cheese. Different sizes and varieties of the company’s low-moisture, part-skim mozzarella string cheese float through a stream of brine. The cheeses are headed on the same journey toward the packaging department, where they will be sealed into Baker Cheese-branded or private label packages.
“Each one of the lanes in [the] lazy river is a different product, and they come out separate,” notes Brian Baker, president and CEO.