John Wm. Macy's

John Wm. Macy's is a family-owned wholesale manufacturer of specialty baked snacks headquartered in Elmwood Park, New Jersey. The Company operates a 50,000 square factory and has sixty employees. The Company's products are sold under the brand names John Wm. Macy's CheeseSticks, John Wm. Macy's CheeseCrisps and John Wm. Macy's SweetSticks.John Macy discovered his passion for food and entertaining as a teenager while catering clambakeson Martha’s Vineyard. In 1975, he established Easy Cook Eaty, a small catering business which he operated for the next 10 years. In 1976 John developed his original CheeseSticks recipe. The 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.Following a move to the East Coast, John decided in the early 1980s to bake and sell CheeseSticks from his New York City 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.Forty years from the first CheeseSticks, John Macy and his brother Tim continue to manage the family enterprise. 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!