Following customer backlash, Sheetz finds local bakery to be its pepperoni roll maker.
Sheetz has selected Home Industry Bakery of Clarksburg, W.Va. as the pepperoni roll maker for its 49 West Virginia locations, the West Virginia Metro News reported.
In May, Sheetz announced that the pepperoni rolls, which are sold in about one-third of its 500 c-stores, would be produced via a vendor outside of the state where they were invented. But West Virginia customers took to social media demanding that Sheetz continue to make the product, which was first created in the 1920s, locally in West Virginia.
“We are extremely thankful to have heard from our customers regarding pepperoni rolls sold at our stores in West Virginia,” Sheetz said in a press release. “We are even more excited to be able to act upon that feedback and deliver a partnership to provide West Virginia baked pepperoni rolls to all of our West Virginia stores.”
Sheetz also considered Abruzzino Bakery, as well as another of the previous suppliers, Rogers and Mazza.
