![]() The company said it was seriously delinquent on rent and couldn’t qualify for a second forgivable federal Paycheck Protection Program loan after receiving what government records show was an initial loan of between $2 million and $5 million in April. Love’s announced its closing plans March 1, saying that it had lost more than 20% of its revenue last year when sales from hotels, restaurants and other tourist-dependant outlets dried up. “The Love’s brand has a proud and distinguished history in Hawaii and Franz Family Bakery is honored to be given this opportunity to help carry the Love’s tradition forward through this licensing agreement,” Albers-Nisbet said. Hawaii Foodservice Alliance will distribute Love’s products for Franz. The company operates bakeries in seven states.įinancial terms of the licensing agreement were not disclosed. “It is always a sad day in our industry when an independent bakery closes, especially one like Love’s that has been such an integral part of life in Hawaii for more than 100 years,” Kimberly Albers-Nisbet, Franz president and director of sales, said in a statement.įranz is a fourth-generation, family-owned business founded in 1906. The arrangement will avoid the loss of Love’s products statewide, though the locally owned bakery that suffered financial stress amid the coronavirus pandemic will still shut down on Wednesday triggering the loss of 231 jobs. Portland-based Franz Family Bakery announced today that it has acquired a license to produce bread and other bakery items under the Love’s name for Hawaii from some of its mainland facilities. Learn more about the Space Needle Foundation HERE.A family-owned bakery business based in Oregon will keep the nearly 170-year-old kamaaina Love’s Bakery brand alive. ![]() In 2017, through a partnership with the Space Needle Foundation, we updated our packaging to include the iconic Space Needle. Through the acquisition, Franz has continued to develop and expand the brands product assortment and distribution throughout the Northwest. In 1996, Franz Bakery acquired the Seattle French Baking Company and today is still producing classic, timeless aged sourdough products under the Seattle International and Seattle Sourdough Baking Company brands. Once the Miner’s Landing location was closed, all sourdough was produced and delivered out of the Gai’s Bakery location on Weller St. In the early 1990’s, the Seattle Sourdough Baking Company brand was then introduced to retail stores, and the French Scissor Roll was made special for the Canlis Restaurant, which is still a famous restaurant in Seattle today.Įventually, all of the sourdough sold in retail stores was produced and delivered out of the Gai’s Seattle French Baking Company Bakery located on South Weller Street, while the sourdough for the restaurants were still baked at the Miner’s Landing location. The bakery was open to the public and produced a variety of aged sourdough products for the Seattle restaurant and waterfront community. ![]() The sourdough was baked and delivered fresh twice a day, seven days a week. In 1984, the Seattle Sourdough Baking Company opened on Miner’s Landing at Pier 57 on the Seattle Waterfront to service the local Seattle restaurants and downtown area with authentic sourdough. We begin our story at Pier 57 on the Seattle waterfront. ![]()
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