Arco potato chip makers are satisfying cravings worldwide

IDAHO FALLS – Since launching a murphy spot institution successful Arco 4 years ago, Don and Joanna Tarner person earned a worldwide reputation.

Atomic Potato Chip Company offers 24 different flavors of homemade murphy chips made from caller Idaho Russets. No preservatives are added and Don tells EastIdahoNews.com Redmond pinkish brackish and peanut lipid are 2 cardinal ingredients that group them isolated from different spot companies.

“We wanted to make nan astir delicious murphy chips we could make,” Don says. “Our chips aren’t nan cheapest (price) but group want value and we’ve been successful pinch that.”

Don worked successful commercialized existent property for years connected nan West Coast and bought a murphy spot institution arsenic portion of that venture. He recalls eating a batch of Kat and Ray’s murphy chips, a staple successful Hershey, Pennsylvania wherever he grew up.

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The thought for utilizing peanut lipid and caller trim potatoes stuck pinch him for years aft visiting a edifice successful Delaware arsenic an adult. Its fries were a basking seller and an worker cited those 2 things arsenic nan reason.

Don is simply a instrumentality of nan Trans-Siberian Orchestra and he and his woman traveled to Pocatello astir 2016 to be a concert. They fell successful emotion pinch nan area and decided to move.

They initially settled successful Blackfoot but nan duo’s upbringing and his inheritance successful existent property later prompted them to move to nan Arco area.

“The further retired you go, nan amended chance (you have) of owning something,” he explains. “Joanna grew up connected a workplace successful Missouri. I had a beautiful workplace successful nan east. I’m a state feline and I emotion looking astatine onshore and truthful that’s what took maine retired there.”

Joanna is simply a commercialized navigator and since Idaho’s largest export is potatoes, they decided to commencement a business task together utilizing their individual skills.

They started making homemade murphy chips retired of their Blackfoot location initially, which they sold astatine farmer’s markets and events successful Pocatello, Wood River and Sun Valley. Word started to dispersed and nan number of orders soon became excessively overmuch for them to manage.

Smokin’ Chipotle BBQ Chips made astatine Atomic Potato Chip Company | Courtesy Joanna Tarner

The find of a commercialized room abstraction successful Arco 3 years agone was a game-changer that’s allowed them to expand. They’re now trading chips successful section stores and shipping orders for customers worldwide.

“Chips person been sent to our troops successful South Korea, they’ve been to Canada and Sweden,” says Don.

A man from Pocatello precocious bought 4 aliases 5 bags and asked nan mates a question.

“Would you beryllium consenting to vessel these to personification successful Orlando, Florida?” nan man asked, according to Don.

“Of course,” Don replied, reasoning thing of it.

Later, he learned nan man was nan CEO of World Spice Inc., a awesome marque whose spices are sold successful each market store.

He and different awesome institution offered to go equity partners successful nan Tarner’s two-man operation, Don says.

“It’s a really cool opportunity and it’s flattering, but I don’t cognize that I want to activity for somebody. At this point, I deliberation we conscionable want to turn our brand, support it successful Idaho and spot wherever it goes,” says Don.

A cook successful Coeur d’Alene asked them to supply chips for nan upcoming governor’s shot connected Sept. 5. Don and his woman are making a travel to present nan chips successful personification for that event.

“We vessel each nan clip but for thing for illustration this, I’m hand-delivering them,” Don says. “I’ve been to Coeur d’Alene once. You don’t person to twist my limb to spell there.”