Grand Central Bakery

Grand Central Baking Company d.b.a. Grand Central Bakery is an American bakery chain with locations in Portland, Oregon, and Seattle, Washington and their metropolitan areas. It was founded in 1972 in Seattle's Grand Central Hotel building. The bakery is known for its artisan breads.[1]

Grand Central Bakery
IndustryBakery
FoundedSeattle, Washington (1972 (1972))
FounderGwenyth Bassetti
Number of locations
11 (2014)
Area served
Portland, Oregon, and Seattle, Washington
Number of employees
225 (2012)
Websitegrandcentralbakery.com

History

The predecessor to Grand Central Bakery was a shop called "The Bakery" that was opened in the former Grand Central Hotel building (aka the Squire-Latimer Building and today Grand Central on the Park) in Seattle's Pioneer Square by Gwenyth Bassetti.[2] She left the business, returning in June 1989, when the shop was renamed "Grand Central Bakery". In 1993, Bassetti's son Ben Davis helped turn an "old nursery building in Portland's Hawthorne District" into the company's first location in Portland.[2]

Today
A Grand Central Bakery location in Portland, Oregon

As of 2012, Grand Central's head baker in Portland was Sean Coyne.[3] Coyne was the head baker at Per Se from 2003 to March 2005.[3] As of 2012, Mel Darbyshire was the head baker in Seattle. She was replaced as head baker in Portland by Coyne.[3]

As of December 2015, the company had six shops in the city of Portland proper, and in that month it opened its first suburban shop in Oregon, located in Cedar Mill, an unincorporated area that is within the Portland metropolitan area.[4]

References
  1. Leson, Nancy (July 26, 2000). "Bread: It's on a roll, gaining momentum". The Seattle Times. Retrieved June 10, 2012.
  2. "Grand Central Bakery – History". Grand Central Bakery. Archived from the original on April 24, 2012. Retrieved May 12, 2012.
  3. Russell, Michael (November 3, 2011). "Meet Sean Coyne, Grand Central Bakery's new head baker in Portland". The Oregonian. Retrieved June 10, 2012.
  4. Owen, Wendy (December 9, 2015). "Grand Central Bakery opens in Cedar Mill". The Oregonian. Retrieved 2016-02-15.
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