Photos: Inside Kwik Trip's operation in La Crosse
Scenes from the inner workings of Kwik Trip's kitchen, dairy, and sweets bakery in La Crosse.
Dough for Persian rolls moves down a conveyer belt at the Kwik Trip sweets bakery.
Glazers are packaged at the Kwik Trip sweets bakery.
Cinnamon and sugar is rolled into dough for Persian rolls at the Kwik Trip sweets bakery.
Persian rolls are carried through the fryer at the Kwik Trip sweets bakery.
Specialized machinery washes and drys strawberries in the Kwik Trip produce room.
Buns are stacked for sandwiches at Kwik Trip kitchens.
Tortillas are stacked for burritos at Kwik Trip Kitchens.
The produce room at Kwik Trip kitchens.
Freshly cut ham is gathers by a worker at Kwik Trip kitchens.
Salads are made at Kwik Trip kitchens.
Workers assemble carrot and dip cups in the Kwik Trip produce room.
Aaron Lapp, a mixer and operator at the Kwik Trip sweets bakery, scrapes Crème Dream Dunker batter from a mixing blade.
Cookies are carried by a conveyer belt at the Kwik Trip sweets bakery.
Pint sized chocholate milk bottles are processed at Kwik Trip's dairy plant.
Milk and other products are stored in the massive warehouse at the Kwik Tip dairy.
Half-gallon bottles of two percent reduced fat milk are processed at the Kwik Trip dairy plant.
Kwik Trip produces many of their own milk and beverage bottles and jugs in their own blow mold room housed in the dairy plant.
The Kwik Trip dairy plant has 10 miles of stainless steel pipes running through it.
Orange cranberry muffins cool at the Kwik Trip sweets bakery.
Orange cranberry muffins come out of the flow wrap machine at the Kwik Trip sweets bakery.
A worker walks through the pasteurization room at the Kwik Trip dairy plant.
Scenes from the inner workings of Kwik Trip's kitchen, dairy, and sweets bakery in La Crosse.
After 52 years with Kwik Trip and 22 years as CEO and president, Donald P. Zietlow is retiring, effective at the end of the year.
A Kwik Star will be opening in Brandon, South Dakota this month, and more locations are being planned in the state.Â
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