Boulevard Bread Company

What Boulevard Bread Company does

Boulevard Bread Company is a privately held, founder-owned bakery, restaurant, and coffee house founded in 2000 and headquartered in Little Rock, Arkansas. The company operates four physical locations across Central Arkansas — a flagship full-service bistro in the Heights neighborhood (Heights Bistro), a bakery on South Main Street (SOMA), a counter inside the Baptist Health hospital lobby, and a kiosk inside the CALS Downtown Library — collectively offering all-day coffee, breakfast, lunch, take-out dinner, Sunday brunch, and a rotating daily-specials program built around an in-house artisan bread bakery.

Revenue is generated through three streams: retail food and beverage sales across the four locations (with menu prices ranging from approximately $4.25 for pastries to $29 for daily dinner specials), full-service catering for weddings, corporate events, and private parties including food, bar, and staffing (with on-premise venue rental at Heights, SOMA, and CALS), and wholesale bread supply to restaurants in Central Arkansas. Online ordering for pickup is operated through the ToastTab platform. Distribution is entirely regional — Little Rock and surrounding Central Arkansas — with no disclosed plans for geographic expansion beyond the existing footprint.

The company has no disclosed external investment, no parent entity, and no public listing. Founder Christina Basham is identified as owner. The competitive positioning rests on 25 years of continuous daily bread baking, handcrafted preparation, relationships with local farmers and artisans, and the role of the locations as community gathering spaces. There is no proprietary technology stack, no AI/ML capability, and no enterprise software or platform component to the business — Boulevard Bread Company is fundamentally a craft food service operator with a local multi-location footprint.

Name

Boulevard Bread Company

Legal name

Boulevard Bread Company

Website

https://boulevardbread.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2000

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Boulevard Bread Company is a privately held, founder-owned bakery, restaurant, and coffee house operating four locations across Little Rock, Arkansas, serving local consumers with artisan bread, daily menus, catering, and wholesale bread accounts.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Artisan Bakery & Cafe

NAICS

Retail Bakeries (311811), Baked Goods Retailers (445291)

SIC

Retail-Eating Places (5812)

akta.pro primary industry

Retail Bakeries (Bread & Daily Bakery) (THAFAFAA)

akta.pro secondary industry

Bread & Pastry Specialty Stores (CRAHAGAC)

Keywords

• Artisan bakery products
• Bakery cafe services
• Catering services
• Wholesale bread supply
• Restaurant dining services

Headquarters

HQ city

Little Rock

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices4 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Supply Chain, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Retail Food Service: Revenue from four bakery and bistro locations selling baked goods, breakfast, lunch, dinner items, coffee, and specialty beverages directly to consumers.
2. Catering Services: Catering trays, full-service catering for weddings and events, on or off-premise including food, bar, and staff. Private event venue rentals at Heights and Main Street locations.
3. Wholesale Bread Accounts: Supplying award-winning bread to several restaurants in Central Arkansas through wholesale accounts.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Boulevard Bread Company operates four bakery, restaurant, and coffee house locations in Little Rock, Arkansas, producing handcrafted artisan breads daily along with breakfast, lunch, and dinner menus. The company supplements its retail dine-in and takeout business with full-service catering for events and wholesale bread supply to local restaurants in Central Arkansas.

Product overview

Boulevard Bread Company is a multi-location bakery, restaurant, and coffee house chain operating four locations in Little Rock, Arkansas (Heights Bistro, SOMA, CALS Downtown, and Baptist Main Lobby). The company offers a unified hospitality experience centered on freshly baked artisan breads, crafted breakfast and lunch menus, daily dinner specials, sweets and treats, alongside supplementary catering services and wholesale bread accounts to local restaurants. Founded in 2000, the company has grown to become a daily routine establishment for Central Arkansas residents, combining bakery, restaurant, coffee house, and event venue services under one brand.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Heights Bistro
• SOMA Bakery
• CALS Downtown Library Bakery
• Baptist Main Lobby Bakery
• Daily Artisan Bread Program
• Breakfast Menu
• Lunch Menu
• Dinner Service & Daily Specials
• Sweets and Bakery Case
• Catering and Event Services
• Wholesale Bread Accounts

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Emerging players

• Nothing Bundt Cakes: National specialty cake retailer with strong catering and event presence. Comparable to Boulevard's whole-cake and event-catering offerings for celebrations and corporate orders.
• Crumbl Cookies: Fast-growing national cookie and dessert retailer. Adjacent competitor in the packaged-treat bakery segment where Boulevard sells its assortment of cookies and cake slices.

Regional players

• Blue Owl Baking Co. Little Rock-based artisan sourdough microbakery with weekend farmer's market presence. Direct local competitor in the handcrafted artisan bread category within Boulevard's home market.
• The Root Cafe: Locally-sourced farm-to-table restaurant and bakery in Little Rock, Arkansas. Same metro peer competing for the same community-oriented, handcrafted-food customer in Central Arkansas.

Direct peers

• Panera Bread: National bakery-café chain offering soups, sandwiches, salads, and artisan breads in a dine-in/carryout format. Closely comparable business model to Boulevard's Heights and SOMA locations in combining bakery production with full-service café dining.
• Corner Bakery Cafe: Multi-location bakery-café chain serving breakfast, lunch, and bakery items with a similar dine-in plus packaged-bread format. Direct competitor archetype to Boulevard's multi-format bakery/bistro model.
• Great Harvest Bread Co. Franchised bakery chain specializing in fresh-milled artisan breads with attached cafés. Direct comparable on the daily-baked artisan bread product line and bakery-café hybrid retail model.
• Atlanta Bread Company: Regional bakery-café chain operating in the U.S. South with menus spanning sandwiches, soups, salads, and baked goods. Comparable operating footprint and bakery-café hybrid positioning.

Broad incumbents

• Einstein Bros. Bagels: National bagel/bakery-café chain under the JAB/JAB Holding foodservice portfolio. Broader incumbent in the bakery-café space with overlapping breakfast and catering menus.
• Le Pain Quotidien: Established bakery-restaurant chain emphasizing organic, handcrafted breads, pastries, and simple seasonal menus. Comparable on handcrafted artisan-bread positioning and bakery-led dining format.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks4 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/taylor-farms-california-inc.

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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