Conagra Brands says its plant-based meat bets are paying off

The conglomerate sat out the plant-based burger craze, finds success via an alternative route.

Conagra Brands Inc. stuck with the supermarket freezer case back when refrigerated plant-based burgers were all the rage in quick-service restaurants, the company’s president and CEO, Sean Connolly, told an industry gathering Thursday.

“We had to elect where to utilize the capacity for our Gardein business, and where not to use it,” Connolly said of…