You've probably never heard of the cold chain industry, but without it, your Thanksgiving dinner plate would be pretty empty.
You've probably never heard of the cold chain industry, but without it, your Thanksgiving dinner plate would be pretty empty.One of the biggest cold storage companies in the world is based in Chicago , and this Thanksgiving week, its warehouse was humming with activity.Inside Lineage's 170,000-square-foot facility in Pilsen — the size of three football fields — much of the food you eat is stored and then sent to stores and restaurants.
"Food arrives on trucks from farmers and manufacturers and is stored in massive pallets, either frozen at -10 degrees or chilled at 34 degrees, before being trucked back out to stores and restaurants.This year alone, Lineage will receive, store, and transport 64 million pounds of everyone's favorite holiday bird."Here's where we have our turkeys staged," Rayhill said during a tour. "They're getting ready to ship out.
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