Philly Pretzel Factory

WHERE BETTER GETS MADE. Being “Better” sounds easier than it is. It takes dedication. Risk-taking. A refusal to compromise your principles. And yeah, sometimes that means keeping things simple. From our shape to our recipe, wholesome is how we do things better, every time. It’s not just about what goes into our pretzels. It’s about how you feel when you eat one…or four! It’s in the memories you make at tailgates, birthday parties, and movie nights – and the happiness you feel when you take the first bite. Better is how we measure ourselves. At Philly Pretzel Factory, we dedicate every day to the craft, the creation, and the experience of better. OUR HISTORY: PHILLY BORN AND BREAD Our founder, Dan DiZio, grew up eating pretzels. He started selling soft pretzels in his neighborhood at age eleven, becoming a child entrepreneur with a sales team of kids from all around the town. He missed pretzels when he went away to school, so after graduation Dan partnered with his college buddy Len Lehman to found the original Philly Pretzel Factory location in the Mayfair section of Philadelphia. Dan and Len were inspired by their love for pretzels and experiences with the original Philly-based pretzel bakeries, so it was no surprise that their own pretzels were delicious! They held a deep respect for those founding fathers whose wholesale bakeries in the warehouses in and around Philadelphia fed the locals at all times of days. So opening their first Philly Pretzel Factory as an actual storefront instead of in an industrial space was an experiment, a kind of “why not try this,” between the two. What resulted was a line that never went away, and a fanbase always hungry for more! Now, after more than twenty years of twisting, Philly Pretzel Factory is over 170 stores strong and making things better as we grow into additional states every year. WHERE BETTER GETS MADE. Being “Better” sounds easier than it is. It takes dedication. Risk-taking. A refusal to compromise your principles. And yeah, sometimes that means keeping things simple. From our shape to our recipe, wholesome is how we do things better, every time. It’s not just about what goes into our pretzels. It’s about how you feel when you eat one…or four! It’s in the memories you make at tailgates, birthday parties, and movie nights – and the happiness you feel when you take the first bite. Better is how we measure ourselves. At Philly Pretzel Factory, we dedicate every day to the craft, the creation, and the experience of better. OUR HISTORY: PHILLY BORN AND BREAD Our founder, Dan DiZio, grew up eating pretzels. He started selling soft pretzels in his neighborhood at age eleven, becoming a child entrepreneur with a sales team of kids from all around the town. He missed pretzels when he went away to school, so after graduation Dan partnered with his college buddy Len Lehman to found the original Philly Pretzel Factory location in the Mayfair section of Philadelphia. Dan and Len were inspired by their love for pretzels and experiences with the original Philly-based pretzel bakeries, so it was no surprise that their own pretzels were delicious! They held a deep respect for those founding fathers whose wholesale bakeries in the warehouses in and around Philadelphia fed the locals at all times of days. So opening their first Philly Pretzel Factory as an actual storefront instead of in an industrial space was an experiment, a kind of “why not try this,” between the two. What resulted was a line that never went away, and a fanbase always hungry for more! Now, after more than twenty years of twisting, Philly Pretzel Factory is over 170 stores strong and making things better as we grow into additional states every year. HOW WE DO IT: FACTORY FRESH Sounds like an oxymoron, right? Wrong. All of our pretzels are hand-twisted and baked fresh using proprietary equipment and an ingredients list that’s short and sweet. Flour, water, yeast, and a pinch of salt are all you knead for a fresh, no mess snack. Simple makes them better! Because our pretzels are so deliciously simple, we leave it up to you to customize with dips and mustards. You’ll also find our pretzels wrapped around specialties like cheesesteaks and hot dogs. Find a new favorite every time! One bag of our proprietary flour makes enough dough to stretch from the ground to the top of the Statue of Liberty’s torch (305’) Each year, we use enough flour to fill 85,000 bathtubs We use more than 15 million pounds of flour per year – about the weight of 1,000 T-Rex dinosaurs. Every 75 weeks we stretch enough dough to circle the Earth. Since our founding in 1998, we’ve made enough dough to circle the earth 14 times. We serve more than 5.7 million pretzels per month, and more than 68.6 million pretzels per year — that’s more than one billion pretzels since 1998! The average American consumes about 1.5 pounds of pretzels per year. We sell nearly 100,000 gallons of mustard every year — enough to fill about 30 concrete mixing trucks. We sell nearly 76,000 gallons of cheese every year — enough to fill 4,000 car gas tanks. We season with enough salt each year to make two Olympic-sized swimming pools as salty as the ocean. COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT In the spirit of “Where Better Gets Made,” we love to support the communities we’re part of! Whether that’s through a fundraising partnership, renting out our Philly Pretzel Factory truck (yes, that’s a thing!), or donating a raffle basket of Philly Pretzel Factory swag, let us know how we can help make your event or organization better.

Address: 1845 Hooper Ave, Toms River, NJ 08753, United States · Phone: 7322555555

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