Bakeries based in California

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Il Fornaio

Il Fornaio

Il Fornaio is a chain of twenty-three (as of 2017) Italian-themed fine dining restaurants operating primarily in California (17 locations of its 23) in the United States.

The Il Fornaio brand was established in 1972 as a baking school in Barlassina, Italy (in the Lombardia region). It opened a retail bakery in Milan in 1975, and was licensed in 1981 to Williams-Sonoma as a retail bakery concept. Williams-Sonoma opened four locations in California before selling the business to private investors in 1983. Initially unsuccessful, the chain was re-sold in 1986 to Larry Mindel, who had run local restaurant holding company Spectrum Foods and launched or bought a series of successful restaurants: Chianti in Los Angeles; Prego (one of the originators of California-style pizza), MacArthur Park, and Ciao in San Francisco; and Guaymas in Tiburon.

The new owners opened a total of 11 restaurant-bakeries in California in late 1980s and 1990s. The first restaurant location and headquarters are in Corte Madera, California, the second in San Francisco. They then branched out to Las Vegas, Nevada, Colorado, and Virginia, opening a total of 22 by 2008.

In 1997 the company became publicly traded on the NASDAQ stock exchange. By 2000 the company had $124 million annual revenues. The company was eventually taken private again in a leveraged buyout. Mindel sold most of his equity and retired from daily operations of the group in 2001 (his son, Michael, continued and is Senior Vice President of Marketing as of 2014), and in 2003 opened Poggio at the Casa Madrona Hotel in Sausalito as a personal project. Headquarters is in Corte Madera, California.

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Joan%27s on Third

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La Brea Bakery

La Brea Bakery

La Brea Bakery is a retail bakery, restaurant operator, and an industrial baking company started in Los Angeles, California. Since opening its flagship store on 468 S La Brea Avenue in 1989, La Brea has opened two much larger bakeries in Van Nuys, California, and Swedesboro, New Jersey, to serve wholesale clients. It also sells its products in the United Kingdom and Ireland. La Brea is one of the USA's largest sellers of fresh bread. Since 2001 La Brea has been owned by Aryzta AG, the largest bakery company in the world.

Founder Nancy Silverton had originally wanted to open a restaurant that offered fresh-baked bread. At the time, she was working at Wolfgang Puck's Spago. However, she found that "unless you were really set up for it, it wasn’t very profitable to make your own bread. You need to have a dedicated space and you need to do wholesale to make money at it."

Originally just a small storefront, in 1998 the business raised US$10 million for a new production plant in Van Nuys and became the largest artisanal bakery in the United States. The facility prepares par-baked bread, dough that has been 80% baked and then quick-frozen for baking later, and employed around 100 people in 1999. La Brea breads are widely available throughout Southern California and are sold in many supermarkets, but the original small storefront remains popular with Angelenos craving its artisanal fresh baked goods.

In 1990, Nancy Silverton received the James Beard Foundation “Best Pastry Chef of the Year” Award. She has also written several books. The company’s website includes some of the articles that have been written about its breads.

In October 2008, La Brea Bakery was chosen to open a new restaurant at Los Angeles International Airport.

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La Bou

La Bou is a chain of bakery-café cafe restaurants in the Sacramento area which sells sandwiches, soups, salads, breads, and bakery items.

In 1981, the first La Bou store opened its doors offering owner Trong Nguyen's handmade croissants.

La Bou has expanded to 26 company-owned stores and franchised units all serving croissants and espresso drinks, in addition to pastries, soups, salads and sandwiches. New franchises are no longer available.

La Bou is located primarily in Sacramento,Ca it was also founded in Sacramento but it has locations in Auburn, Roseville, Folsom, and Elk Grove.

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Kiss My Bundt Bakery

Kiss My Bundt Bakery is a purveyor of bundt cakes, other baked goods, coffee, and cooking classes on Third Street, in Los Angeles, California. It is owned by Chrysta Wilson who is also the author of the Kiss My Bundt Cookbook.

Kiss My Bundt opened August 2008 and sells 10 inch "big ol' Bundts", 4-inch "baby bundts" and 2½-inch "mini-bundts" in 50 rotating varieties such as red velvet with cream cheese frosting, lemon syrup-soaked citrus, raspberry lemonade, champagne, marble cake, cappuccino, pumpkin, coconut, lime basil, mandarin orange chocolate and almond. The maple bacon bundt was featured on the LA Times blog.

The bakery came in first place in 2008 for MyFoxLA's "Best Cupcakes in the Los Angeles area" and made the top five in 2009. The store has been noted in US Weekly, MSNBC.com, The Poly Post and 944 Magazine.

Wilson is from the American South (Atlanta, North Carolina, and Danville California) and was a community organizer before switching careers. She is a volunteer board member for the West 3rd Street Business Association, has donated more than 100-dozen mini bundts to schools and charities, partnered with nonprofits to help emerging entrepreneurs, hosted interns from local urban high schools to teach them about entrepreneurship, and served as a volunteer panelist to speak about her experiences in community building and "opening her bakery to inspire young people and adults to chase their dreams and follow their hearts." She has stated that, "I know there aren't very many African-American-owned businesses in the Beverly Hills and West Hollywood areas where my bakery is located," adding that she feels fortunate to have been able get her business opened and established in the community.

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Mother%27s Cookies

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Mrs. Fields

Mrs. Fields' Original Cookies, Inc.

Mrs. Fields Famous Brands is a franchisor in the snack food industry, with Mrs. Fields and TCBY as its core brands. Through its franchisees’ retail stores, it is one of the largest retailers of freshly baked, on-premises specialty cookies and brownies in the United States and the largest retailer of soft-serve frozen yogurt with live active cultures in the country. In addition, it operates a gifts and branded retail business, entering into many licensing arrangements. Its franchise systems includes over 300 franchised and licensed locations throughout the United States and in 22 other countries. It also offers retail grocery products and a gifting catalog under the name of Mrs. Fields Gifts. It is headquartered in Broomfield, Colorado.

Mrs. Fields Cookies was founded by Debbi Fields in the late 1970s. She and her husband Randy opened their first of many stores in 1977 in Palo Alto, California, selling homemade-style cookies which quickly grew in popularity. In 1982, they moved their headquarters to Park City, Utah. In the early 1990s, the company was sold to an investment firm.

During the 1990s, the company acquired several other brands including Original Cookie Company, Great American Cookies, Pretzel Time, Pretzelmaker, Hot Sam Pretzel Bakery, and TCBY.

In 2007, Mrs. Fields celebrated its 30th anniversary with a national search for a new cookie. Chandler, Arizona resident Carrie Lawrence's recipe for "Oatmeal Peanut Butter Scotchies" was chosen over 700 other recipe entries as Mrs. Fields' 30th Anniversary Cookie in August 2007.

In May 2012, Mrs. Fields announced it was moving its headquarters to the Denver area in Colorado. According to then CEO Tim Casey, the move was because "Many casual/quick service franchise companies were launched from and are based in Denver, making it an ideal environment..."

The company acquired long-standing licensee Maxfield Candy and high quality nut, dried fruit, and popcorn brand Nutty Guys in Salt Lake City, Utah on December 24, 2014.

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Otis Spunkmeyer

Otis Spunkmeyer Inc.

Coordinates: 37°41′39″N 122°10′14.8″W / 37.69417°N 122.170778°W / 37.69417; -122.170778

Otis Spunkmeyer Inc. is a baked goods distribution company widely known for its name and flagship line of muffins and cookies. Although a relatively small company, Otis Spunkmeyer has enjoyed a large amount of success in the industry, with clients ranging from small family-owned businesses and restaurants to worldwide military organizations such as the United States Army. In addition to its famous muffins and cookies, Otis Spunkmeyer also produces frozen cookie doughs and other pastries.

Ken Rawlings, the founder of Otis Spunkmeyer, Inc., opened the first fresh-baked cookie store in Oakland, California in 1977. For the name of the business, Rawlings took the suggestion of his 12-year-old daughter who coined the name. By 1983, with his brother Bill by his side, Rawlings had built the company into a thriving, fast growing chain with nearly two dozen stores. However, due to high overhead costs and the desire to reach a larger market, the company shifted its focus from retail to wholesale, creating a fresh-baked cookie program for other food service operators. The program included pre-portioned frozen cookie dough, a pre-set convection oven, and marketing materials. This innovative program allowed both big and small food service operators to sell fresh baked cookies (within 20 minutes) in their facilities.

Otis Spunkmeyer was well known for flying a pair of DC-3 aircraft emblazoned with the company logo over the Golden Gate.

2002 saw a management buyout led by chief executive officer, John Schiavo, in association with the private equity firm of Code Hennessy & Simmons.

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Randy%27s Donuts

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