Amy’s Kitchen plans to close its Santa Rosa manufacturing plant in phases over the next several months, eliminating about 207 jobs at the Northpoint Parkway site and contributing to roughly 260 affected positions across its manufacturing network. The company also plans to cut about 51 jobs at its Pocatello, Idaho, canning operation as that work moves to Medford, Oregon. Layoffs are expected to begin late this year and conclude by summer 2027.
The Petaluma-based maker of organic vegetarian packaged foods confirmed the plan in a report from The Press Democrat, which first reported the phased shutdown. CEO Paul Schiefer said Amy’s had evaluated alternatives before choosing to close the Santa Rosa operation. The company attributed the decision to a manufacturing network that has become more complicated than its current needs warrant and said the Santa Rosa plant accounts for only a small share of its total production.
Amy’s plans to assign production by product category. Pocatello, which the company opened in 2014 after acquiring a 500,000-square-foot former Kraft Heinz plant and planning $75 million in upgrades, according to Capital Press, will become the company’s entrée facility. Medford, opened in 2005 and constructed specifically to support the company’s meal production, according to East Idaho News, will handle pizza, soup and burritos. Amy’s said it plans to offer separation packages, job-placement help and counseling to affected employees, while emphasizing that the closure is not a judgment on their work.
A Company Built in Petaluma, Now Consolidating Elsewhere
Andy and Rachel Berliner started Amy’s Kitchen in 1987, and the company will keep its corporate headquarters in Petaluma even as manufacturing moves out of Sonoma County. The Berliners have also been stepping back from daily operational leadership; the co-founders officially put their oceanfront Stinson Beach estate on the market on May 19, 2026, for $16 million, as Hoodline reported in its coverage of the listing.
What the Layoff Records and Plant Histories Show
The Santa Rosa shutdown follows a separate round of permanent layoffs recorded by the California Employment Development Department: 283 workers at Amy’s Northpoint Parkway site and 22 at its Dutton Avenue facility, effective Dec. 3, 2024, according to California Employment Development Department WARN records. Those records establish the scale and timing of Amy’s earlier Santa Rosa-area cuts, but do not by themselves provide a countywide comparison with other recent manufacturing losses. The available company history distinguishes the facilities mainly by how they were developed and what they produce, rather than by documenting different labor arrangements. Amy’s official history says the Oregon kitchen was built from the ground up as demand grew, unlike earlier operations that adapted existing buildings; the current plan would assign Medford pizza, soup and burrito production while Pocatello becomes the entrée facility…