41 Trending Bakery Businesses [2024]

Pat Walls

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Updated: January 18th, 2023

Start A Bakery

Everyone loves baked goods, be it sweet items like cakes, muffins, and cookies or savory baked food like pizzas, buns, bread, and puff pastry. Baking takes a lot of effort and patience, which is why many people buy baked items from stores or restaurants instead of baking them at home.

Starting a bakery can be a rewarding business opportunity if you have a passion for baking. If you plan to start a bakery, consider that happy customers often become repeat customers. Therefore, always focus on quality and work on customer satisfaction.

To start a bakery , pick an ideal format. Some options include:

Counter-style bakery
A hybrid bakery with a cafe,
Food truck with a bakery
Home bakery.

Write a suitable business plan and choose the correct location.

Looking for some examples of a bakery?

Interested in case studies of a successful bakery? Check out our full list of success stories.

1. Corner Bakery Cafe

Corner Bakery Cafe is an online catering and food delivery service provider across 23 states in the USA. This American chain of cafes specializing in pastries, bread, breakfast dishes, gourmet sandwiches, homemade soups, salads, and pasta.

They deliver fresh and flavorful treats for everyone. Corner Bakery offers kitchen-crafted, artisan-inspired food prepared by real cooks to sort your breakfast, lunch & dinner cravings.

Where they're located: Nashville, Tennessee, USA
Website traffic: 250K/month

2. Magnolia Bakery

Magnolia Bakery was established in 1996, on a quiet street corner in West Village located in the heart of New York. Magnolia Bakery has been appreciated for its classic American baked items, beautiful vintage decor, and warm & inviting atmosphere. They offer a variety of products, including freshly baked cupcakes, cookies, brownies, and bars, corporate gift packages & seasonal assortments are also available.

Where they're located: Manhattan Community Board 1, New York, USA
Website traffic: 170K/month

Learn more about starting a bakery:

Where to start?

-> How to start a bakery?
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-> Pros and cons of a bakery

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-> Blog post ideas for a bakery

4. Purato's

Puratos is an international group offering a full range of innovative products, raw materials, and application expertise to the bakery, patisserie, and chocolate sectors. They aim to be reliable partners in innovation, helping their customers around the world to deliver nutritious and tasty food to their local communities.

Where they're located: Ninove, Flanders, Belgium
Website traffic: 70K/month

5. Snack Food & Wholesale Bakery

Snack Food & Wholesale Bakery is the top source of production, technology and product news, ideas and solutions for the changing snack food & bakery industries.

Where they're located: Glendale, Arizona, USA
Website traffic: 70K/month

6. Georgetown Cupcake

Georgetown Cupcake is the ultimate place for designer cupcakes and has its stores in 6 states across America. They bake their cupcakes on-site daily and use the finest products and gourmet ingredients. Sisters Katherine Kallinis Berman and Sophie Kallinis LaMontagne are the co-founders of Georgetown Cupcake.

Where they're located: Washington D.C., Washington, D.C., USA
Website traffic: 80K/month

7. Nature's Bakery

Nature's Bakery believes that simple, wholesome snacks are the best fuel for active and happy lives. Since 2011, they have been making snacks that are plant-based, gluten-free, dairy-free, nut-free, and Non-GMO Project Verified. Today, they are one of the fastest-growing snack brands in the category and have recently joined KIND, a healthy snacking leader.

Where they're located: Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
Website traffic: 50K/month

8. Boudin Bakery

Boudin Bakery has been shaped, formed, and preserved for more than 166 years by a wonderfully diverse group of people who share common values: hard work, dedication to excellence, and pride in producing The Original San Francisco Sourdough™. They serve wonderful sourdough pizzas, burgers, sandwiches, amazing salads, many other flavor-packed and nutritious items.

Where they're located: Stockton, California, USA

9. Tous Les Jours

TOUS les JOURS, offers more than 300 different kinds of bakery goods, including bread, pastries, cakes, desserts, and beverages. They bake each day to provide fresh products for their guests and take pride in sourcing and using carefully selected fine ingredients. Since its launch in the United States in 2004, TOUS les JOURS has developed into a reputable bakery & café franchise, specializing in French-Asian-inspired baked goods, passionately made from the finest ingredients.

Where they're located: Fremont, California, USA

10. Carlo's Bakery

Carlo's is a family-owned bakery featured on the TLC hit show Cake Boss. Carlo’s, originally opened by Carlo Guastaffero in 1910, was acquired by Bartolo Valastro Sr. in 1964. After the untimely passing of Bartolo Sr. in 1994, his family has been looking after the business. Over the years their business has expanded and currently, there are many stores across 9 states in the USA including New York, California, and Florida.

Where they're located: Manhattan Community Board 1, New York, USA
Website traffic: 120K/month

11. PAUL Bakery, Patisserie, Café and Restaurant

Our bread is handmade, and we are passionate about our pastry, cakes and coffee. PAUL is a taste of France, focused on the green side of baking.

Where they're located: Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA
Website traffic: 70K/month

12. Cakes.com

Cakes.com is the largest online bakery service in America. In just a few clicks, cakes.com connects people with the bakery of their choice. Cakes.com makes celebrating easy by linking shoppers to unique cake options from their favorite bakery. They serve in more than 60 states in the United States and have made it easier to order from your local bakery in just a few seconds.

Where they're located: Nashville, Tennessee, USA
Website traffic: 190K/month

13. O&H Danish Bakery

O&H Danish Bakery offers a wide variety of Danish delights and maintains the authentic taste and texture. They use traditional recipes and baking methods handed down from past generations. Similar to many traditional Danish recipes, their approach is to allow nature to produce the finest ingredients, while we take the simple approach of letting the best seasonal flavors shine through.

Where they're located: Columbus, Ohio, USA
Website traffic: 60K/month

14. BakeSmart

BakeSmart is a bakery software that was designed precisely to meet all the different needs of a retail bakery. This software offers the users complete control of every aspect of the bakery, from order taking, to production, to inventory management, to nutrition and product costing.

Where they're located: Indianapolis, Indiana, USA

15. Dewey's Bakery

Dewey's Bakery has been offering its customers delicious sweet and savory treats since 1930. They bake their products with care and passion. Dewey's Bakery allows you to celebrate life and flavor while they hold your precious moments. They have two stores in Winston-Salem and ship their items nationwide.

Where they're located: Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA

16. Cinnaholic Bakery

Cinnaholic is the original, gourmet cinnamon roll bakery. They make handcrafted cinnamon rolls and desserts that are 100% vegan plant-based, and dairy-free. They look forward to providing for all your sweet cravings and have 55+ locations across the U.S. and Canada!

Where they're located: Fort Worth, Texas, USA

17. SmallCakes Cupcakery

Jeff Martin founded the wildly popular Smallcakes Cupcakery with more than 150 stores across 29 US states. Smallcakes features seasonal and special flavors created by Jeff. After appearances on the Food Network’s “Cupcake Wars” seasons one, two, and seven as well as on the hit daytime talk show “The View,” Smallcakes became well known and in hot demand across the country.

Where they're located: Indianapolis, Indiana, USA

18. Red Ribbon Bakeshop

Red Ribbon Bakeshop was started in 1979 as a hobby-induced business, which later expanded into a Filipino-owned and professionally run business. The company has grown to more than 450 outlets all over the Philippines and has over 30 stores in America. They are known for their impressive and sumptuous cakes and pastries.

19. Bourke Street Bakery NYC

20. Pastreez

Order Authentic French Macarons online, and get delivered wherever you are in the United States. Our French chefs are based in California and ship fresh daily. With over 15 flavors, you can build your own set online, and pick only your favorite flavors. Don't wait!

How much they make: $300K/year
Where they're located: Phelan, CA, USA
How much did it cost to start: $7K
Current team size: 2

How This Couple Left France To Build Their "American Dream:" A Six-Figure Online French Bakery

French chef and founder of online bakery Pastreez, Anthony Rosemond, shares keys to success including validating ideas with the market, focusing on SEO and organic growth, building customer relationships through email and SMS, never offering discounts but offering freebies, and diversifying the business with new products and content on social media.

About

Anthony started Pastreez about 7 years ago

Revenue

Anthony grew the business to $25K/month

Costs

It cost Anthony $7000 to start the business

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21. Eatzi's Market & Bakery

Where they're located: Fort Worth, Texas, USA

22. Billy's Bakery

Billy's Bakery NYC is a cherished and loved neighborhood bakery located in four locations across New York City. Billy's Bakery sells homemade baked goods and is known for their outstanding cakes, cupcakes, banana pudding and more.

Where they're located: Manhattan Community Board 1, New York, USA

23. Bien Mérité

Specializing in croissants, almond croissants, macarons, pastries, mirror cakes, tiramisu, mousse cups, catering and more.

Where they're located: Corpus Christi, Texas, USA

24. Zaro's Bakery

Where they're located: Manhattan Community Board 1, New York, USA

25. Gambinos Bakery

Gambino's Bakery is a household tradition that offers delicious baked goods, including our world famous King Cakes and Doberge Cakes that ship to your door!

Where they're located: New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

26. Digital Pages

Where they're located: Prasat Balangk, Kampong Thom, Cambodia

27. Bakery Packaging Boxes

Get Custom Printed Bakery Boxes with your own brand name and logo on it to enhance your branding. Buy Wholesale and Retail Bakery with free shipping across USA and Canada.

Where they're located: Columbus, Ohio, USA

28. Bing's Bakery®

Here at Bing's Bakery®, located in Newark Delaware, we are a full-line scratch bakery that is a one-stop shop for your special occasion!

Where they're located: Newark, New Jersey, USA

29. Belmar Bakery

We specialize in homemade pastries, cookies, wedding cakes, pies & cupcakes. We offer everything from basic cakes to custom cakes and custom cookies.

Where they're located: Amarillo, Texas, USA

30. Alon's Bakery • Market

Where they're located: Atlanta, Georgia, USA

31. Bird Bakery

Where they're located: San Antonio, Texas, USA

32. Good Cakes and Bakes – Best Cupcakes in Detroit

The best cupcakes in Detroit. At Good Cakes and Bakes we are committed to connecting with and building a stronger community. Our goal is to remain a productive company by focusing on PEOPLE who drive our innovation and creativity, the PLANET to source “good for the earth” products to create our goods.

Where they're located: Detroit, Michigan, USA

33. Coco's

Where they're located: Anaheim, California, USA
Website traffic: 40K/month

34. Vicky Bakery

Family owned and operated for more than 40 years, Vicky Bakery is South Florida's source for authentic Cuban pastries. Known for our famous "pastelitos", a family recipe passed down through 3 generations.

Where they're located: Miami, Florida, USA

35. La Segunda Bakery in Ybor & South Tampa

Where they're located: Tampa, Florida, USA

36. Five Daughters Bakery

Our pastries are made with love daily from scratch, always non GMO, sourcing locally and organic. #100layerdonut

Where they're located: Nashville, Tennessee, USA

37. Leonard's Bakery

Since 1952, based in Honolulu, Hawaii, Leonard's Bakery has been delighting the world with original creations like the Malasada Puffs, the Malasadamobile, Malasada Babies, and Pao Doce pups. Malasadas made fresh throughout the day.

Where they're located: Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

38. Erika Record Baking Equipment

Industry-leading distributor of artisan bakery equipment for retail and wholesale bakeries. This includes commercial ovens, mixers, sheeters, bread production, divider rounders, cookie machines, confectionery depositors and more!

Where they're located: Ghanzi District, Botswana

39. The Cake Shop

The Cake Shop was established in San Antonio with a dream to make quality and made from scratch cakes using only the finest ingredients.

Where they're located: San Antonio, Texas, USA

40. Unrefined Bakery

Gluten Free, Non Gluten, GF, Organic, Paleo, Non-GMO, Gluten Free Pies, Gluten Free Sweet Breads, Muffins, Treats, Breads, Pizza Crust, Cakes, Cupcakes, Keto, Paleo

Where they're located: Fort Worth, Texas, USA

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