The bread cools for about an hour and is then sent to be sliced. Once sliced, the bread is wrapped by an automatic bagging machine. Now that the loaf is in the bag, it is sent to be tied and fastened. The finished product is conveyed to where it is sorted and stacked for store distribution. Total production time for a loaf of bread is about three hours. The total lapsed time from the beginning of production to when the bread is on the shelf in the store is 24 hours.