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Frito-Lay Plant in Rancho Cucamonga Shutting Down Manufacturing Operations
- PepsiCo Foods U.S. announced on June 11, 2025, that it will be closing the manufacturing operations at its Frito-Lay facility in Rancho Cucamonga, California.
- The closure followed shifts in consumer habits, declining snack sales, tariffs, and policy impacts, while Frito-Lay did not file the required WARN notice with California.
- Though production ended, the facility's warehouse, distribution, fleet, and transportation units will continue to operate, and employees received 10 weeks of severance pay.
- Established in 1970, the Rancho Cucamonga facility was where Flamin' Hot Cheetos, launched in 1991, were created; it also once employed Richard Montanez, whose claim to inventing the snack is contested by PepsiCo.
- This shutdown ended over five decades of snack food production, eliminated hundreds of jobs locally, and reflects PepsiCo's broader cost adjustments amid expected market volatility.
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