The Bama Companies is expanding its north Tulsa facility because of the success of McDonald’s all-day breakfast.
Bama is spending $33 million on a 50,000 square foot hotcake manufacturing plant. That will translate to around 55 new jobs.
"Typically, 80 percent of the new jobs in a community come from existing companies, so it's very, very important to help companies grow here and to really see those companies thrive," said Tulsa Regional Chamber Executive Vice President and COO Justin McLaughlin.
CEO Paula Marshall said Bama got loans from local banks and uses local suppliers.
"So that means they'll add more team members. They'll have more jobs coming to them as well," Marshall said. "So, it's a circle, it's a cycle that keeps repeating itself."
Marshall expects construction will wrap up in September, and pancakes should start rolling off the line in December.
"We'll be making about a million and a half cases of hotcakes a year," Marshall said. "There's probably 40 or 50 hotcakes in every case, so you can do the math."
The hotcake plant is Bama’s first U.S. expansion since the 1990s.
