Lamb Weston is ConAgra Foods, Inc.’s frozen potato business, operating 7 facilities in the Columbia River Basin, which collectively transform 11 billion potatoes each year into French fries and other frozen potato products for restaurants, retailers, and foodservice companies. In 1960, F. Gilbert Lamb, the company’s founder, invented the Lamb Water Gun Knife, the first device to slice French fries in a high-velocity water flow (now common practice). In addition to freeze tunnels and cold storage for finished products, the Lamb Weston Boardman plant, like most potato processing plants, also holds raw potatoes in cold storage for several months, at between 45 and 55 degrees F, in order to continue operations year round. In November 2012, ConAgra announced that, in response to strong consumer demand for frozen potato products, it would undertake a $200 million, 192,000 square foot expansion to add a new line to the Boardman plant, making it the largest Lamb Weston facility in the region.