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Off the cob chips where to buy
Cameron Sheldrake introduces the Sharks to Off the Cob Tortilla Chips, his snack business the features natural corn tortilla chips, in Shark Tank episode 612. Cameron is yet another successful Kickstarter business appearing on the show; his project successfully raised a little over $15K to ship the first pallets of Off the Cob Chips to 28 Boston area Whole Foods markets back in October, 2012.

Off the Cob Chips have six ingredients: sweet corn, certified organic GMO free yellow corn, certified organic GMO free white corn, expeller pressed sunflower oil, cane sugar and sea salt. The corn Off the Cob uses is grown on small farms throughout the American Midwest. The corn Cameron uses makes a lighter, sweeter chip that’s also better for you than most processed chips.

Cameron grew up on a family farm in Ithaca, NY – which is where he got his passion for and knowledge about organic foods. The 2012 graduate of Babson College always dreamed of being an entrepreneur and when he formulated his chips, he went for it! Like most food entrepreneurs who appear in the Tank, he’s likely looking for cash to fund inventory and help with getting national distribution.

Will a Shark take a bite out of Off the Cob?

Off the Cob Tortilla Chips Shark Tank Recap

The segment opens with Cameron on the family farm where he reveals they throw a lot of sweet corn away each year. He invented Off the Cob to stop wasting it. Cameron enters the Tank seeking $100K for 15%. He explains the difference between grain corn and sweet corn. Sweet corn is what you eat when you cook corn on the cob. The Off the Cob chips taste better! He hands out samples and Nick Woodman compliments Cameron on the name and the packaging.

He’s in 45 stores now and Lori says she never knew there was a difference between grain and sweet corn. Grain corn costs 30 cents a pound and sweet corn costs $5 a pound. Mr. Wonderful balks at the price differential. Cameron says he’s going into 100 stores and is getting in with a major snack food distributor. He sells to distributors for $1.60; it costs 85 cents to make each bag.

Mr. Wonderful goes out because of the challenges involved. So do Mark and Daymond. Lori loves the chips but thinks it will be too hard to scale. Nick says he’s not price sensitive and the marketer in him wants to invest in it, but he’s out. Nick says he wants Cameron to stick with it and he thinks he’ll be successful. Cameron says he’s going to keep doing what he’s doing and keep selling chips.

RESULT: No Deal

Off the Cob Tortilla Chips Shark Tank Update

The Shark Tank Blog constantly provides updates and follow-ups about entrepreneurs who have appeared on the Shark Tank TV show. Cameron went back to the farm. This company is out of business.

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Off The Cob Tortilla Chips – Episode 612 – November 21, 2014

Off the cob chips where to buy
Off The Cob Sweet Tortilla Chips
coming to the Shark Tank
in Episode 612

 Just thinking about starting a brand new Tortilla Chip Brand competing with multi-billion dollar conglomerates would almost seem impossible in this day and age. They’ve already created every type of tortilla chip imaginable, and as self-appointed experts, the Big Brands have dominated store shelves for years.

Somewhere along the evolution making tortilla chips it was deemed regular grain corn was “good enough” for making this popular product. Using regular grain corn is abundantly planted consisting of 95% of all acres planted in the USA, with a “cheap price” compared to other types of quality sweet corn. Who cares if using quality sweet corn with several health benefits compared to grain corn tastes better, people have been eating inferior tasting tortilla chips for so long we don’t know any better.

It would take a 3rd generation farmer by the name of Cameron Sheldrake from Ithaca, NY, to reinvent what a quality tortilla chip tastes like, and an appearance on the Shark Tank Show to make Off The Cob Chips a household name. All the products Off The Cob produce are made using hand-picked quality sweet corn picked right off the stock. The sweetcorn is so sweet you can eat it right off the cob, and make’s for a much tastier and sweeter tortilla chip.

Cameron first took his “Off The Cob Chips” to the Rocket Pitch back in 2011 and won the Undergraduate BETA Challenge in 2012 at the Babson College’s Business Plan Competition. With a $20,000.00 First Prize money in hand, Sheldrake took his soon-to-be-famous tortilla chips to Kickstarter hoping to raise the additional capital needed to bring this to market. The $15k goal was easily achieved and Off The Cob Chips was now in business. The comments left on the Kickstarter project page are all 100% positive and very unusual as someone always seems to complain about something when leaving comments. Grant it there’s not a lot of comments, but they are “all positive” which is very rare to see on any crowdfunding campaign.

Off The Cob Tortilla Chips before Shark Tank Update

One of the main hurdles for any food product seen on the Shark Tank is the coveted shelf space reserved for the big players within that particular market. When considering the shelf space for chips dominated by a handful of national brands, Off The Cob Chips has an uphill battle one shelf at a time. Fortunately, by the progress shown on FaceBook and the number of the store’s already carrying the Off The Cob Brand, the store numbers have steadily been increasing.

Off the cob chips where to buy

By looking at the store locator, there must be at least 50 stores now carrying the Off The Cob Tortilla Chips. Most stores are either in Southern California or way out east in the New York area. Obviously, the distributors are having good success getting shelf space for the Off The Cob Chips where they’re located, with plenty of opportunities to expand across the country. Over 20 Shell Gas Stations within Orange County alone now carry these sweet chips. If you live in Orange County, be sure to buy a bag of sweet corn chips. Maybe Shell will start carrying Off The Cob Chips in all their gas stations so the rest of the country can also try them. K? Thanks!

This might be a hard food product to build a new Brand around, but when you compare a tortilla chip to a sweet tortilla chip, there is No Competition. If Cameron makes a deal on the Shark Tank and gets mass distribution to the rest of the country, the Off The Cob Tortilla Chips could be a huge success story in record time.

Watch the Off The Cob Chips appearing on the Shark Tank this Friday night, November 21st and see if Sheldrake makes a sweet deal with his sweet corn tortilla chips.

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Off the cob chips where to buy

John Poole

John has been a long-time Shark Tank fan. He loves the show because he's an entrepreneur at heart. To help viewers of the show find out more information about the products and services that were on the show, John created SharkTankSuccess.com.

Is off the cob chips still in business?

However, the Off the Cob chips operation was shut down, and the company went out of business in 2021.

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Do tortilla chips have gluten?

Most tortilla chips are gluten-free Tortilla chips are most often made from 100% ground corn, which is naturally gluten-free. They may be made from white, yellow, or blue varieties of corn. Nonetheless, some brands may contain a mix of both corn and wheat flour, meaning they are not gluten-free.