Since 1973, Franklin Street Bakery—also known as The Good Bread Company—has operated from Minneapolis as a wholesale bakery making fully baked, frozen breads for restaurants, retailers, and food-service operations. Its SQF-certified production combines hearth-baked character with distribution through partners serving customers in 17 states.
SQF Level 2 Certified
Baker Street Bread CoFounded in 1992, Baker Street Bread Co. makes hand-shaped artisan breads and pastries in Philadelphia, supplying restaurants, food-service establishments, and grocery stores while operating a bakery café in Chestnut Hill. The company describes itself as Philadelphia’s first artisan bread bakery and wholesale distributor, using long fermentation and imported French ovens to develop its loaves’ flavor and character. Its wholesale deliveries serve the greater Philadelphia area six days a week, with the café offering breakfast and lunch alongside freshly baked goods.PHILADELPHIA, PA
Crest Hill BakeryFrom a 150,000-square-foot Maryland bakery, Crest Hill Bakery makes artisan breads, rolls and frozen dough for food retailers and wholesalers nationwide. Founded by president Dave, the company combines old-world baking with modern production, using pre-fermented starters, days-long rises and French stone-lined ovens rather than tunnel ovens. Its kitchen-not-a-factory approach is backed by SQF accreditation and Orthodox Union Kosher Parve certification.BELTSVILLE, MD
Merzbacher'sSince 2013, Pete Merzbacher’s Germantown bakery has grown from overnight work in a borrowed West Philadelphia pizzeria into a team-oriented wholesale bread bakery serving Philadelphia’s food businesses. The bakery is known for making artisan bread with 100% locally milled flour, including its signature Philly Muffin, and is now carrying Metropolitan Bakery’s wholesale operations into a new chapter.PHILADELPHIA, PA
Jenny Lee Swirl BreadJenny Lee Swirl Bread sells baked goods made by 5 Generation Bakers, a commercial manufacturer of frozen wholesale bakery products founded in June 2009 to continue the Baker family’s baking tradition. The family’s bakery history dates to Michael A. Baker’s Pittsburgh bakery, founded in 1875, and includes Jenny Lee Bakery, established in 1938; the current line grew from cinnamon swirl and cinnamon raisin breads to additional baked products.MCKEES ROCKS, PA