Tuesday, September 30, 2008
News Cookie Remonstrance
Posted by Nicki Wood on Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 1:00 PM
A mountain of ruined cookies—41,000 cases, to be exact—is at the center of a lawsuit filed in Davidson County Chancery court. This strikes at the very heart of a sugar hound.
Interbake, whose very name sucks all the fun and joy right out of baked goods at a speed I hadn't thought possible, is suing an area warehouse for improper cookie storage.
Perhaps you purchased cookies that turned out to be "stale, crumbly, soft and having an unusual appearance"? Interbake's suit asserts that the Cumberland Furnace-area warehouse operated by Meritex (who thinks up these names?) leaked, was moldy, and that cookies were stored in improper areas. Meritex also is accused of knowingly delivering damaged boxes, and of concealing damaged boxes inside cases of unharmed boxes.
Interbake makes cookies for private labels by contract and operates ABC Bakers, the Girl Scout cookie bakery. The lawsuit doesn't specify the identity of the cookies, but they are "specialty cookies" "distributed primarily in the months of January, February, March and April." I really hope it wasn't Scout cookies. Anyone experience substandard cookies? And can we think of a better name for Interbake?
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They sounded much less like a wing of Dr. Evil's corporate empire when they were known as "Southern Biscuit Works"...
Be sure to keep their mission statement in mind when coming up with a new name:
"Interbake Foods' vision is to be a customer centric organization, focused on creating value for customers using cookie, cracker, and cone technology and novelty manufacturing systems."
CeeElCee always has the Comedy Gold! ConfectiCon is just perfect.
As usual, Carrington and I were thinking the same thing. I would have picked a cozy slogan like "Interbake: Have a cookie" or a name like CookiePress Bakers or Big Cookie Machine. See, Interbake, there's $100,000 of consulting for you, absolutely free here on the Nashville Scene blog!
