#Emrich Baking Company

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Emrich Baking Company: “A Picture Tour of Our Bakery”

For those who have not visited the immense Emrich Baking Company plant we offer you a picture tour. Space will not permit us, of course, to show you all the many processes of baking bread, rolls, cakes, and doughnuts. We can, however, offer a revealing glimpse of modern technical baking from flour storage to delivery to you. The tour will prove beyond all doubt that our capacity is great enough to fill the needs of all the Twin City restaurants. Our bakery is your kitchen -- two acres of modern equipment. We invite you to visit and make a personal tour at any time.

- From 1919 - A Dream, 1950 - Reality

A former Dayton’s pastry chef, Otto Emrich opened the Emrich Baking Company in his basement in 1919. By 1950, the bakery was a major supplier of rolls, breads, and donuts to local restaurants and hotels that had expanded far beyond Otto Emrich’s basement to a state-of-the-art facility at 2601 Bloomington Ave.

Celebrating the bakery’s success, this retrospective booklet includes a “picture tour” of the Bloomington Avenue bakery. Click through the photos above to read the captions and learn more.

Emrich Baking Company continued to grow through the 1970s, including purchases of local bakeries McGlynn’s and Egekvist. (McGlynn’s would later reappear as it’s own bakery.) In 1978, Emrich Baking Company itself was bought by Wisconsin-based Heileman Baking Company.

Booklet in the Hennepin County Library Special Collections Vertical Files.