NORWALK, Ohio — Trina Bediako pulls on a hairnet and a lab coat – both pink – before walking down the hall at a rambling office-and-manufacturing complex in Huron County.

She opens one door, then another. And the smell of fresh-baked bread fills the air.

“That little bun, right, this big,” she says, mimicking a circle with her hands. “Folks … could never imagine all that we go through to get that thing just right … The color. The size. You know, the shade of brown.”

You’ve probably never heard of New Horizons Baking Co.

But if you live in Northeast Ohio – or anywhere else in the United States and Canada – you’ve probably eaten something the company made. The family-owned bakery supplies English muffins and hamburger buns to thousands of McDonald’s restaurants, while filling breakfast m

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