The Edwards Pie factory in Edgewood

Atlanta Restaurants & Food

Photos: The Edwards pie plant in central Atlanta. The plant produces 140,000 pies a day and about 42 million a year.

A machine squirts ingredients for Key Lime pie in to crusts on an assembly line at the Edwards pie plant in central Atlanta. The facility sends the smell of baking pies throughout Inman Park and Reynoldstown.

Jim Erdman gives a tour of the Edwards pie plant in central Atlanta. The plant produces 140,000 pies a day and about 42 million a year. It has been at its current location since 1970.

Specially designed nozzles make a creamy ring around a key lime pie on an assembly line at the Edwards pie plant in central Atlanta.

A bin full of toppings are sprinkled on key lime pies as they make their way down an assembly line.

Cheryl Williams mixes the ingredients for brown vanilla wafers that will be formed & cooked by the thousands then crusted to make pie crust.

Thousands of brown vanilla wafer cookies make their way down a line for baking, then they will be crushed and used for pie crust.

Kacy Joiner picks up log shaped dough that will be used for pecan pie crust at the Edwards pie plant in central Atlanta.

Hundreds of pecan pies go into a 100 foot long oven and cook for 38 minutes before going in to a freezer.

Pecan pies make their way down the line where Rekisha Pitts pulls defective ones at the Edwards pie plant in central Atlanta.

Pecan pies are mechanically pushed into their packaging.

Pat Lee marks pecan pies with slight imperfections for the secondary market.

Zebideru Guluma, left, Almaz Makennon & Mayra Zambrana package pecan pies for shipping.

The Edwards pie plant has been in its current location (off of DeKalb Avenue near the Candler Park MARTA station in central Atlanta) since 1970.

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A machine squirts ingredients for Key Lime pie in to crusts on an assembly line at the Edwards pie plant in central Atlanta. The facility sends the smell of baking pies throughout Inman Park and Reynoldstown.

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