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John Wm. Macys

Elmwood Park, New Jersey, United States • 51 - 200 Employees
Food Production

John Wm. Macy's is a family-owned manufacturer of specialty baked snacks based in Elmwood Park, New Jersey. The Company's sixty employees produce John Wm. Macy's CheeseSticks, CheeseCrisps and Grilled Crostini Toasts.John Macy discovered his passion for food and entertaining as a teenager while catering clambakes on Martha's Vineyard. In 1975, he established a small catering business which he operated for the next 10 years. In 1976 John developed his original CheeseSticks recipe. His unique and delicious CheeseSticks, made with multiple layers of hand-mixed sourdough and aged sharp Cheddar cheese, rolled into thin sheets and cut into strips and twisted by hand, soon became John's signature appetizer at his catered events.In 1977, John took his recipe on the road and sold fresh-baked CheeseSticks at local county fairs and carnivals along the California coast. The popularity of his savory, twisted CheeseSticks convinced John that there could be a broader market for them.After moving to New York City, John decided in the early 1980s to bake and sell CheeseSticks from his loft apartment one day a week in addition to his full-time job as an office manager for a Manhattan-based non-profit. He soon realized his tiny apartment kitchen and weekly batches of CheeseSticks were not enough to get the company up and running. In 1985, with support from his family, John opened a small shop on the Lower East Side of Manhattan and launched John Wm. Macy's CheeseSticks.More than forty years later, John Macy and his brother Tim still manage the family business. In January 2016 the two brothers were inducted in the Specialty Food Association Hall of Fame for "accomplishments, impact contributions, innovations and successes within the specialty food industry."​ The beat goes on!