At first glance, 37th Street in Long Island City, New York, looks a little down on its luck.

On one side of the road, there's a strip of dilapidated warehouses and auto body shops.

On the other, there's a cemetery where mafiosi are buried.

You can hear mechanics drilling out tire bolts

and cars honking on the nearby expressway.

But inside of a white brick building on the corner,

you'll find a place where, quite literally, fortunes are made.

All right.

He who throws mud loses ground.

A day without smiling is a day wasted.

A clean conscience is a good pillow.

People will always hunger to feel that they're part of something greater.

The cookie you eat it, it's over in a minute,

but it's the message that stays in your mind.

That's Norman Wong. He's the CEO of Wantan Food, the largest manufacturer of fortune cookies

in the world. Between its New York factory and additional facilities in Texas and Tennessee, it produces

five and a half million of them every day.

If you laid out their annual output of fortune cookies end-to-end, it would circle the globe

two and a half times.

We are most of the market.

So primarily Chinese restaurants, they are the typical mom and pops that you see, but also

national food chains.

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