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A chocolate eclair Milkshake? Here’s your definitive ranking of the top Table Talk Pie milkshakes made at company’s Worcester shop (Mass Live)

Whether you’re trying to beef up for the football team, recover from a tonsillectomy, or find maximum indulgence in a cup, there’s a milkshake waiting for you at the Table Talk Pie Store in Worcester.

Manager Caitlin Enck finds herself fielding the same question over and over again: “Does the Table Talk Pie Store sell anything besides — pie?”

The answer is: not really.

It’s a better business model than you think. American psychologist Barry Schwartz built his entire career on the finding that offering consumers fewer choices makes them happier. The Table Talk Pie Store is an excellent example of this.

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Plant Openings & Expansions: November 2019 (Food Engineering)

Tippmann Innovation will begin work on a 1.4 million-cu.-ft. freezer expansion for Mattingly Cold Storage in Zanesville, Ohio, with completion set for spring 2020.

Phillips Foods Inc. is expanding its seafood manufacturing plant in Baltimore, Md., by 15,000 sq. ft. to produce soup.

Tippmann Innovation and Table Talk Pies celebrated the opening of a new cold storage warehouse in Worcester, Mass.

CP Kelco is expanding its gellan gum production capabilities at its facility in Okmulgee, Okla.

Cargill in its joint venture with Puris invested $75 million to double its pea protein production at its 200,000-sq.-ft. facility in Dawson, Minn.

Kroger and Ocado will build a 350,000-sq.-ft. fulfillment center in Dallas, Texas, which should be operational in 2022.

McCain Foods plans to invest $9 million to expand capacity at its Florenceville, New Brunswick (Canada), french fry facility.

Resonate Foods plans to invest $2.7 million in greenhouses, drying buildings and processing equipment for hemp in Lyon County, Ky.

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With a secret spice blend created by two Worcester favorites, Wormtown Brewery and Table Talk Pies pumpkin pie ale is back for fall (Mass Live)

What happens when you dump 30 8-inch pumpkin pies, more than 100 pounds of pumpkin puree and a secret spice recipe into a 30-barrel batch of beer? You get the most Worcester ale ever.

With summer in the rearview mirror, Worcester companies Table Talk Pies and Wormtown Brewery have once again teamed up to release the Table Talk Pumpkin Pie Ale.

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Take a Bite out of Iconic Worcester Food (Pulse)

by Maria Connors

It’s no secret that Worcester is a burgeoning food hub, with an endless list of options for dining on every scale. Included in this myriad are a variety of successful businesses native to the city, all of which have seen their products thrive both locally and outside of their hometown. This month we’ve chosen to highlight four local businesses that have come to be staples in the stomachs of Worcester residents, each with a distinctly different path to success.

Table Talk Pies
If you’re on the hunt for a dessert that can serve one person or a whole table, you may want to pay a visit to Table Talk Pies. Table Talk Pies have graced people’s pantries and tabletops since 1924, when two Greek immigrants who worked in a small bakery started the company. It was the grandfather of Harry
Kokkinis, the current president of Table Talk, who worked with his business partner to bake pies during the night and deliver them during the day until their business finally took off. Table Talk Pies hit some bumps in the road along the way, when the company was sold in 1965. It was run into the ground and officially closed in the mid-1980s. Kokkinis describes how his father finally bought back the building in 1986. He purchased the name and some new equipment and slowly but steadily began to rebuild their family’s company. Kokkinis himself took over the business in 2003, and credits new technology in food science with helping the company continue to succeed. By freezing their pies, Table Talk can ship their product all over the country. Most recently,
Kokkinis discloses excitedly, he found out their pies were sold at a 7/11 in Hawaii. Despite the far distances Table Talk Pies travel,
Kokkinis credits the city of Worcester as a pillar of the company’s success. He claims the city is a “great place to do business”, and that the two things that make their company great are a commitment to quality and “great employees that help achieve that quality.” In 2018, alone the company sold over 200 million 4-inch pies, their best-selling product being their apple pie closely followed by blueberry.
Kokkinis’ favorite? Of the smaller pies, he recommends their lemon pie, but if you’re looking for a pie to share with the table, pumpkin is the way to go.

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Worcester’s Table Talk Pies wins 8 first-place ribbons at 2019 APC National Pie Championships

Masslive.com by: Michael Bonner April 19, 2019  

In a state that’s celebrated a World Series and a Super Bowl within the last year, Worcester-based Table Talk Pies continued the winning tradition at the 2019 APC Nation Pie Championships earlier this month.

The commercial pie producer took first place in eight divisions over three categories at the national pie championships in Orlando, Florida. Hundreds of pies were judged by 200 judges during the two-day competition.

In the Family Category, Table Talk’s won blue ribbons in the cherry and nut flavors with the Cherry Almond Crunch Table Talk Pie and Pecan Table Talk Pie respectively. read more

Table Talk Pies teaming up with Rocco’s Doughnut Company

Table Talk Pies teaming up with Rocco’s Doughnut Company for another batch of special donuts

By Tim Jones | tjones@masslive.com

What could make an already-great pie better? Turning it into a donut, of course. Thankfully two Central Massachusetts businesses had the same idea.

Worcester’s Table Talk Pies is once again teaming up with Millbury-based Rocco’s Doughnut Company to bring back donuts based on Table Talk’s popular pie flavors.

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Table Talk Pies Breaks Ground On New Warehouse

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Table Talk Pies Breaks Ground On New Warehouse In Worcester, Mass.

Table Talk Pies and Tippmann Innovation broke ground in late February on a new cold storage facility in Worcester, Massachusetts.

Cold storage contractor Tippmann Innovation of Fort Wayne, Indiana, is constructing a -10°F freezer warehouse that maximizes energy efficiency, according to the companies. The freezer sits adjacent to Table Talk’s 150,000-s.f. manufacturing facility, which will enable the facility to streamline the production and distribution processes. The facility now is able to produce at full capacity and store finished goods on-site instead of using outside public cold storage.

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Wormtown Brewery and Worcester Red Sox celebrate partnership

A toast to the new partnership between Worcester’s Wormtown Brewery and the Worcester Red Sox Triple-A baseball team was particularly special Saturday as members of both organizations raised a can of local beer brewed with baseball bats.

Wormtown and the Worcester Red Sox recently announced that Wormtown would be the team’s home town brewery, an announcement that called for a celebration.

The Shrewsbury Street brewery was decked out with baseball-themed decorations and games Saturday as dozens of people filed in to taste the specialty brew alongside Worcester favorites like Table Talk Pies and pigs in a blanket made out of George’s Coney Island hot dogs by Crust Bakeshop.

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