In 1932, Charles Doolin borrowed $100 from his mother to purchase a corn chip recipe. That same year, he started the Frito Company in his mother's kitchen with the first employees being his mother, brother and himself. They had the capability to produce up to 10 pounds of the Frito Corn Chips a day and sold them in nickel bags, usually seeing $2 a day in profit from the sales.
The next year, the production increased 10-fold and soon enough, the company was generating enough money to move from the kitchen in San Antonio, Texas to Dallas. After the opening of a western division in 1941, the company expanded to 6 franchise operations in 1945. By 1951, the chips were sold in all 48 states.
