Bread House

Name

Bread House

Legal name

The Bread House & Granary

Website

https://thebreadhouse.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2009

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Restaurant and Event Venue Hospitality

NAICS

Baked Goods Retailers (445291), Limited-Service Restaurants (722513)

SIC

Retail-Eating & Drinking Places (5810), Bakery Products (2050)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYTHAFAFAG

Cafe-Bakeries (Bakery + Coffee/Foodservice)

Travel & Hospitality/Foodservice & Beverage (Restaurants, Cafes, Bars)/Bakeries & Patisseries

SECONDARYTHAFAFAA

Retail Bakeries (Bread & Daily Bakery)

Travel & Hospitality/Foodservice & Beverage (Restaurants, Cafes, Bars)/Bakeries & Patisseries

SECONDARYCRAHAKAJ

Bakery Grab-and-Go (Pastries, Packaged Desserts, Takeaway Bread)

Consumer Products & Retail/Grocery & Food Retail/Foodservice-to-Go & In-Store Prepared Foods (Grab-and-Go)

Keywords

• Farm-to-table dining
• Artisanal bakery
• Freshly milled flour
• Private event venue
• Specialty coffee bar

Headquarters

HQ city

Albany

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Restaurant and Lunch Service: Health-conscious farm-to-table lunch restaurant offering an ever-changing menu utilizing seasonal produce from local South Georgia farmers. Open Tuesday through Saturday 11:00 am - 3:00 pm.
2. Bakery and Retail Products: House-made baked goods including cookies, signature quick breads, and other treats. Products sold in-store and can be ordered by phone. Fresh bread used in sandwiches and loaves available for purchase.
3. Event Venue Rental: Private event venue offering various spaces for weddings, corporate dinners, holiday parties, baby showers, and other gatherings. Rental options include private dining experiences, partial buyouts, and full venue buyouts with catering services.
4. Catering Services: Catering for events of all sizes, from corporate lunches to wedding receptions. Menu is individualized for each event. Catering is an exclusive service - outside catering is not permitted.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

The Bread House & Granary runs a farm-to-table lunch restaurant, an in-house bakery that freshly mills its own flour on-site, a specialty coffee and juice bar featuring fresh wheat grass juice, and a private event venue with multiple rental configurations for weddings, corporate events, and gatherings. The business also sells retail baked goods and merchandise and provides exclusive in-house catering for events held at its venue and sister venue The Whittlesey House.

Product overview

The Bread House & Granary operates as a multi-service hospitality business with four interconnected offerings: (1) a farm-to-table lunch restaurant serving seasonal South Georgia produce, (2) an in-house bakery featuring freshly milled flour for breads and baked goods, (3) a specialty coffee and juice bar including fresh wheat grass juice, and (4) a private event venue with multiple rental configurations accommodating 10-175 guests. The business also offers retail baked goods for takeaway and catering services exclusively for venue events. All components share the common mission of supporting community recovery efforts and using locally-sourced, clean ingredients.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Farm-to-Table Restaurant and Lunch Service Health-conscious lunch restaurant featuring an ever-changing seasonal menu built on produce from local South Georgia farmers. Open Tuesday through Saturday, 11:00 am to 3:00 pm, for walk-in dining at the Albany, GA location.
• Freshly Milled Flour Bakery In-house bakery that mills its own flour fresh on-site using traditional stone-grinding methods to preserve nutrients typically stripped by commercial milling. Produces breads, cookies, and signature baked goods from natural ingredients.
• Retail Products (Baked Goods and Merchandise) House-made baked cookies, signature quick breads, and branded merchandise available for in-store purchase or as local gifts to send to out-of-town friends and family.
• Specialty Coffee and Juice Bar Specialty coffee drinks and fresh juice bar including on-site grown wheat grass juice and freshly squeezed juices, with wheat grass cut and juiced to order to preserve potency.
• Private Event and Wedding Venue Rental Multifaceted event venue offering private dining rooms, partial buyouts, and full venue buyouts for weddings, rehearsal dinners, corporate dinners, holiday parties, baby showers, and birthdays, accommodating 10 to 175 guests.
• Catering Services Customized menu creation for events ranging from corporate lunches to wedding receptions, with individualized menus per event. Provided exclusively by The Bread House; outside catering is not permitted.

Quantifiable outcome

• Type 2 diabetes risk reduced by 21-30%
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers3 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration2 records

Feature2 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• The Whittlesey HousecoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2022In 2022, The Bread House renovated a neighboring building (The Whittlesey House) to accommodate more events. The Bread House serves as the exclusive caterer for The Whittlesey House events. The two venues share a parking lot and work together as sister venues for larger events.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• La Brea Bakery: La Brea Bakery is an artisan bakery brand producing breads and baked goods for retail and foodservice channels, with cafes that pair fresh-baked goods with restaurant service — a directly comparable product and cafe-bakery model, though with national wholesale and branded-product reach.
• Kneaders Bakery & Cafe: Kneaders is a Western US cafe-bakery concept featuring hearth-baked breads, scratch-made menu items, soups, sandwiches, and catering — a directly comparable operating model to The Bread House, with similar farm-to-table positioning and event/catering revenue lines.
• Einstein Bros Bagels: Einstein Bros is a US cafe-bakery chain specializing in bagels, breakfast, coffee, and catering — comparable in cafe-bakery retail format and catering focus to The Bread House, though with a national franchised footprint rather than a single-location model.
• Great Harvest Bread Company: Great Harvest is a US bakery-cafe franchise that mills its own wheat on-site and sells fresh bread, sandwiches, soups, and baked goods — directly comparable to The Bread House's fresh-milling differentiation and cafe-bakery-retail hybrid model.
• Panera Bread: Panera operates the largest US cafe-bakery chain, combining in-house bakery production with a restaurant menu, specialty coffee/juice offerings, and catering — directly comparable to The Bread House's hybrid model, though at vastly greater scale and with a national footprint.
• Corner Bakery Cafe: Corner Bakery Cafe is a US cafe-bakery chain serving breakfast, lunch, and catering with freshly prepared baked goods and a coffee bar — a near-analog operating model to The Bread House, with the main difference being Corner Bakery's regional multi-state footprint.

Emerging players

• Nothing Bundt Cakes: Nothing Bundt Cakes is a US bakery franchise focused on celebration cakes and event/gift occasions — overlapping with The Bread House's gift-shopping and event-catering use cases, though with a narrower product range and no restaurant/venue offering.
• Magnolia Bakery: Magnolia Bakery operates urban cafe-bakeries specializing in cupcakes, desserts, and retail baked goods, with catering and event services — a comparable retail-bakery-plus-event-services format to The Bread House, though with a national urban footprint.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/breadhousealbany
• Instagraminstagram.com/thebreadhouseofalbany
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/bread-house

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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