Mr. Pancake pushes expansion into retail market

KERSEY – Used to be that a person could step out into the new day and expect to find a newspaper, a bottle of milk and a bag of pancake mix on the doorstep.

Now the people of Kersey have to settle for two out of three. The pancake mix man doesn’t do house calls anymore. But he’s still around.

Dale Dilka owns Stehman’s Wheat Products, a wholesale milling company that produces the popular Mr. Pancake mixes. Direct sales and packaging of the mixes began a few years ago, with Dilka’s door-to-door delivery of a bag or two here and there to…