BE MORE LOCAL THAN PANERA BREAD ®Explore Bakery Cafe Ownership with Great Harvest
As a Great Harvest owner, you can go where Panera can't. You can build a successful bakery cafe in towns too small to support Panera's minimum investment, and you can put your store on Main Street where their layouts won't fit. Wherever you go, you will be in a position to out-bake and out-local your competition — no matter who they are — with products that you bake from scratch daily, from the best-tasting wheat in the world, grown in Montana's Golden Triangle.
We have lots of available markets, and our franchises are demonstrably profitable across the country, in smaller cities like Owensboro, KY; Nashua, NH; Temecula, CA; and Greenville, NC. We've proven you don't have to be in the biggest metropolitan area to build a thriving business. You just need to make and sell a great product. Like our delicious line of foods, which are designed to be as fresh and nutritious as they are tasty. To help you grow your bakery cafe, we've built a successful, locally-oriented business model with the collective experience of hundreds of individual Great Harvest owners.
PANERA BREAD® is the registered and unregistered trademark of Pumpernickel Associates, LLC.
Get to know Great Harvest
Here's how our bakery cafe franchises perform:
One Bakery Cafe
| Avg Cost to Open | Annual Avg. Sales | Annual Avg. Profit ($) | Annual Avg. Profit (%) |
|---|---|---|---|
| $394,193 | $747,431 | $125,564 | 15% |
Our Numbers Tell The Story
Over forty years of franchising, we have evolved from being a bread bakery, to serving sandwiches for take-out, to now becoming a full-fledged bakery cafe. Currently, there are over 30 bakery cafes in our system, operating in a smaller footprint than a big box fast casual restaurant, with seating for at least 35 people.
Many of the stores in our franchise system are bakeries which don't offer 35 seats. Bakery cafes differ from bakeries in these ways: size of the store (bakery cafes are bigger); design aesthetic (our newest stores are fresh, modern, rustic and industrial); and depth and breadth of menu (bakery cafes serve salads, hot and cold sandwiches, soup and espresso), providing tempting menu options for breakfast, lunch, snacks, and even post-soccer practice family dinners.
Work/Life Balance and Flexibility
If you want to know what really sets us apart, it has to be the Freedom Franchise and our unique Bread Business model. Great Harvest stands for traditional business principles like phenomenal quality, great customer service, and creating thriving and profitable businesses. But it’s also about values like having fun, work/life balance, and giving back ─ values that are constantly pursued from the very top of our organization. Because of that, and the relative flexibility of our Freedom Franchise model, Great Harvest attracts an exceptional caliber of franchisees. These small business owners and their employees embody the Great Harvest Mission Statement every day in their own local
neighborhood bakeries.
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Where Can Your Bakery Cafe take you?
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