When a woman puts the cake pop into her drink without a straw, a buzzer sounds off and she wags her finger, and a giant red “X” indicates this is incorrect. But when she takes a straw out, folds it, ...

At San Leandro’s 330,000-square-foot Torani factory, brightly colored bottles of toasted marshmallow, vanilla, lavender, blue raspberry, peach and salted caramel syrup whiz down conveyor belts 24 ...