What's for Lunch?: A Taste of Northeast Ohio Food Industries and Their Development

Dan Dee Pretzel & Potato Chip Company was a family-run snack food business for over 70 years and a major brand throughout Ohio, West Virginia, western Pennsylvania and New York.  The company began in 1913, when childhood friends Harry Albert Orr and Charles V. Pike began manufacturing and distributing pretzels by hand in Braddock, Pennsylvania.

Troyer Farms of Waterford, Pennsylvania acquired Dan Dee on May 24, 1984, doubling their distribution network.  Troyer closed the Cleveland manufacturing facility but maintained the Dan Dee name, product line and Eastside warehouse, located at 4553 Johnston Parkway in Cleveland.

History Detective Activities

On a Cleveland map, locate the Dan Dee warehouse?

Are there other businesses or industries in the area?  If so, name two or three of them.

Why do you think Troyer Farms continues to maintain its Cleveland location?

Without Dan Dee's Cleveland location, how would Troyer Farms distribute the Dan Dee products?  Using a map of Pennsylvania, locate Waterford and Canonsburg.  How far are these cities from Cleveland?