Maybe I'm just cynical, but this story seems too perfect to me. It smells a lot like PR fiction. Would they really need a janitor to come up with the idea of spicy Cheetos? Seems like something they would've already been experimenting with as part of normal R&D.
Montañez deserves all of the praise he's being given. But, the heads of the Frito Lay corporation deserve some recognition, too, for willing to listen to their employee, no matter how low down the corporate ladder he was.
<i>“The antidote to fear is hunger. When you have hunger for a job position, knowledge or a new house, you go and get it and fear will never get a hold of you,"said Montañez</i><p>love that quote.