William Tappendon of Cleveland, Ohio, is credited with taking the potato chips out of restaurant and into the grocery stores. In 1895, he began selling potato chips to local grocers and turned his barn into the world’s first potato chips factory. During the early 1900s, several companies built large factories for mass production of potato chips. And the year 1920s saw the birth of three companies, Wise Potato Chips, Lay’s Brand Potato Chips and Utz Hanover Home Brand Potato Chips, that define the potato chips industry.