Sweet Sam’s Baking Company grew from Lyn’s apartment-kitchen recipe experiments and Dave’s search for used bakery equipment into a Bronx bakery that has been in business for nearly 20 years. The company still works with many original team members and holds to its early belief in real ingredients, now baking at an 80,000-square-foot facility for wholesale customers across the United States and abroad. Its focus on food safety is backed by SQF Level 2 certification.
SQF Certification at Level 2
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Quality certification
Baked In Brooklyn Snacks, a division of Aladdin Bakers, IncBaked In Brooklyn Snacks is the 2012-born snack division of Aladdin Bakers, Inc., a Brooklyn bakery that has been making bread for more than 40 years. Its products are made in Brooklyn and reach customers throughout the United States as well as more than 15 countries abroad. The plant is SQF Level 2 audited for food safety.BROOKLYN, NY
Bakery ExpressFor more than 50 years, privately owned Bakery Express has produced fried and baked goods for grocery, convenience-store, food-service, and retail customers. With three bakeries in Baltimore, Orlando, and Dallas and another planned for Covington, Kentucky, the company combines wholesale and co-manufacturing work with a Baltimore-area café and custom cake shop. Bakery Express is SQF Level II, OU Kosher, and RSPO certified.BALTIMORE, MD
Lyon BakeryFounded in 2000 by three friends, Lyon Bakery has grown from a nine-person operation into a 250-plus-employee wholesale bakery while keeping its focus on patient, traditional breadmaking. Owned by Gerardo Del Cerro and Alan Hakimi, the Hyattsville company works with professional foodservice customers across the Mid-Atlantic and operates 364 days a year to provide fresh daily bread at dependable scale.LANDOVER, MD
Damascus BakeriesSince Hassan Halaby opened a neighborhood bakery on Brooklyn’s Atlantic Avenue in 1930, Damascus Bakeries has grown into a third-generation bakery making pita and artisanal flatbreads. Edward and David Mafoud continue the family recipe while developing newer formats such as lavash roll-ups, and the company now sells its breads across all 50 states and internationally. Its facilities are SQF and Clean Label certified, with a focus on natural ingredients and clean baking environments.BROOKLYN, NY