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Frito-Lay North America

Frito-Lay North America

Frito-Lay North America is the convenient foods business unit of PepsiCo that manufactures, markets, and sells snack foods, including potato chips, tortilla chips, corn chips, and other savory snacks. Its product portfolio includes brands such as Lay's, Ruffles, Doritos, Cheetos, Tostitos, Fritos, and SunChips, which it distributes across the United States and Canada.www.fritolay.com

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Sep 19, 2026

Peter SagalHOST
48:35
Yes.
Peter SagalHOST
48:35
[bell dinging] This week, Frito-Lay came forward and stated that the singular of Doritos is blank.
Adam BurkePANELIST
48:42
Doritos.
Peter SagalHOST
48:43
Yes.
David McLaneGUEST
62:39
love that.
LocaGUEST
62:40
Quesadilla, Frito-Lay.
LocaGUEST
62:43
Don't let the name fool you.
LocaGUEST
62:44
It's not free.
Austin FrerickGUEST
50:20
For example, there's a great story on like, like take Doritos.
Austin FrerickGUEST
50:23
Doritos did a re-engineering, and Doritos is Frito-Lay, which is different, but um, they basically in the '80s they did a whole revamp where they softened the edges so it's not...
Austin FrerickGUEST
50:31
It's, Dor- Doritos are a tortilla chip, which I never-
Nicholas LirioHOST
50:33
Yeah
Frank MesserSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
189:25
See your authorized Apple dealer at Transnet Corporation, Route 22 Union and the Computer Center, Chestnut Ridge Road in Montvale.
Frank MesserSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
189:38
Frito-Lay is contributing to the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Research Fund in the name of the New York Yankees.
Frank MesserSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
189:43
$50 for each run the Yankees score this year.
Frank MesserSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
189:45
With the four runs the Yankees scored this afternoon, $200 will be contributed to the fund.
Ryan PayneHOST
75:59
So to make it fun, let's go with snacks.
Blue WilliamsHOST
76:02
In 1998, Frito-Lay debuted its infamous Wow line of chips using the calorie-free synthetic fat Olestra-
Ryan PayneHOST
76:11
[laughs]
Blue WilliamsHOST
76:12
... which caused digestive symptoms such as cramping, explosive diarrhea, and anal leakage.
Ryan PayneHOST
76:18
Anal leakage.
Blue WilliamsHOST
76:19
Which of these Frito-Lay's brands was not part of the anal leakage line?
Ryan PayneHOST
76:24
Dave, could you get out of the pool? Thank you.
Ryan PayneHOST
76:26
[laughs]
Scott BessentSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
0:49
Life is good here in Casa Grande.
Wayne ShutskyCORRESPONDENT
0:52
That's Treasury Secretary Scott Besant, after touring a Frito-Lay factory in Casa Grande, a rapidly expanding city about an hour south of Phoenix that sits at the northern edge of Congressional District 6, one of just 18 competitive districts across the country that could determine which party controls Congress after the midterms.
Wayne ShutskyCORRESPONDENT
1:09
Besant and Speaker Mike Johnson spent their August visit talking up the ways they believe Republican policies, and specifically the one big beautiful bill, are benefiting CD6.
Wayne ShutskyCORRESPONDENT
1:19
Here's Johnson.
Wayne ShutskyCORRESPONDENT
3:49
Again, Mendoza pushed back, though she says she supports changes like no tax on tips that benefit working people.
Wayne ShutskyCORRESPONDENT
3:55
But Mendoza says the larger bill is hurting the local economy, not building it up.
Wayne ShutskyCORRESPONDENT
3:59
Pointing to the Lucid Motors electric car manufacturing facility located just a few miles from the Frito-Lay plant where Siskamani stood by Besson and Johnson.
Wayne ShutskyCORRESPONDENT
4:07
Lucid announced plans to lay off around 1,000 workers from the plant, which Mendoza attributed to H.R. 1's elimination of a federal electric vehicle tax credit.
Jason FungHOST
81:48
And so in 2009, they've since taken this off, but Cocoa Puffs and Frosted Mini Wheats, which are just full of sugar, They had the health check logo in the United States.
Jason FungHOST
81:59
This is the American Heart Association Heart Walk brought to you by Frito-Lay.
Jason FungHOST
82:04
And here's Chester the Cheetah, the Cheeto guy, right? So again, you think that the American Heart Association is somebody you could trust, but it turns out it's all about the dollars.
Jason FungHOST
82:14
And in case you think Canada's any better, here's the Heart and Stroke Foundation logo here on cookies, as well as juice, which is just full of sugar.
Jackson LynchHOST
26:27
They're optimizing for their individual pay.
Jackson LynchHOST
26:31
I'm sorry, I'm going to go off on a little bit here, but I did some work back in Gosh, this was 2004, 2005, where I had the opportunity to help redesign Frito-Lay's sales compensation structure.
Jackson LynchHOST
26:43
And we brought in all of the senior, the top 1% of our salespeople.
Jackson LynchHOST
26:51
And we brought them into a room.
Jackson LynchHOST
26:52
And my friend, Tracy Faber, who ultimately went on to be the CHRO at Frito-Lay, at McKesson and is one of the inspirations behind why we have kind of a climbing metaphor because she's an amazing rock climber and summited Everest and got really close a couple of times.
Jackson LynchHOST
27:11
Anyway, we were working this thing together with the Center for Effective Organizations.
Jackson LynchHOST
27:16
And what these folks said is we will always optimize for our pay, which sometimes means given some of the dynamics inside of that business, we will grow up to the point where we don't think you're going to cut in another route and ultimately cut our pay.
Jon GloverHOST
37:31
is all he wanted.
Marisa PinsonHOST
37:33
1989, Frito-Lay acquires Smartfood for approximately $15 million.
Marisa PinsonHOST
37:39
Wow,
Jon GloverHOST
37:40
that seems reasonable.
Marisa PinsonHOST
37:54
She gets a nickel.
Marisa PinsonHOST
37:56
So the money is helping like feel like whatever they think it's going to be next.
Marisa PinsonHOST
37:59
So Frito-Lay, they did a move.
Marisa PinsonHOST
38:00
They kept their name off smart food.
Corinne LyallGUEST
36:13
And so not all companies and that just doesn't go for real estate, but not all companies, I think, do a good job of really looking at their infrastructure and seeing how from an operational standpoint, how how do we support our agents? And I did a good job of that.
Corinne LyallGUEST
36:30
But Tom, my husband now and also my director of operations said, He joined me a couple of years ago and he worked for Frito-Lay in operations.
Corinne LyallGUEST
36:42
And so he took all his learning and brought it into our company.
Corinne LyallGUEST
36:45
And I think he's done an amazing job.

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