Bench's Chillicothe Baking Company
- Also Known As: Sliced Bread Innovation Center
- Address: 100 Elm St
- Vicinity: 1st St
| Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
| 1921/09/27 | Frank M Bench | Work | Frank Bench's new brick bakery opens at the corner of Elm and 1st Streets. The state of the art facility employs eight people and can bake 1800 loaves of bread per hour at full capacity. The company sells wholesale to north central Missouri. | |||
| 1925/00/00 | Frank M Bench | Inventor | Frank Bench and Otto Rohwedder design a Bread rack. Patented in 1926, Otto's son Richard is pictured on the side holding a sandwich. | |||
| 1928/00/00 | Otto Rohwedder | Inventor | Otto Rohwedder sells his first devise to friend and baker, Frank M Bench. The Rohwedder and Bench had been working on perfecting the design for the past several years. | |||
| 1928/07/07 | Frank M Bench | Work | Frank M Bench's Chillicothe Baking Company, in Chillicothe, Missouri, begins offering Kleen Maid Sliced Bread at quality grocers in the area. Bread sales will rise 2000 percent in the two weeks. | Invention of Sliced Bread | ||
| 1929/01/00 | Rohwedder's first automatic bread-slicer breaks apart after about six months of heavy use at Bench's Bakery in Chillicothe. | |||||
| 1931/00/00 | Frank M Bench | Work | By 1931, Chillicothe Baking Company goes out of business and Frank Bench sells his bakery building to Al's Bakery which will be taken over in 1933 by Fred Freeman and his milk bread. | |||
| 1940/00/00 | The Cleo-Cola Vess Beverage Company run by Joseph R Donovan operates out of the old Chillicothe Baking building. |
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