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Fran's Restaurant is a small chain of restaurants based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.Its first restaurant was a haunt of pianist Glenn Gould.. The flagship location was opened in 1940 by G. Francis "Fran" Deck at 21 St Clair Avenue West and closed in 2001.
While the Model Bakery established George Weston as Canada's biggest baker, he had already begun to move beyond bread into other lines of baked goods. Model Bakery "biscuit travellers" or salesmen, Soho and Phoebe streets, Toronto, postcard, ca. 1910. By 1897, he had set up a separate shop for the making of cakes, crumpets, pastries and buns.
The Toronto Star argued that the inaugural 2022 guide failed to capture the full diversity of Toronto restaurants, being overly represented by Japanese cuisine and downtown restaurants. [15] The Star also publishes its own alternative restaurant guide that it argues better captures Toronto's food scene, released around the same time as the ...
Longo's was founded in 1956 by Italian immigrant brothers Joe, Tommy and Gus Longo, [1] [2] who immigrated to Canada in 1951 from Termini Imerese, Sicily. [3] They established their first store at the intersection of Yonge Street and Castlefield Avenue in Toronto, with the name "Broadway Fruit Market". [4]
Canada Bread was founded in June 1911 following the merger of five of Canada's leading baking companies: Bredin Bread Company, Model Bakery (founded by George Weston), Toronto Bakery, Stuarts Limited and Boyd's Bakery. The founders of these acquired bakeries, their companies no longer theirs, agreed not to compete with Canada Bread, in bread ...
The Ideal Bread Company Factory is a preserved industrial bakery building, located at 183 Dovercourt Road, in Little Portugal, Toronto. The former factory building was converted to residential lofts in 2007, designated under Part IV of the Ontario Heritage Act since 2003.
By 1996, ACE Bakery sales had reached approximately $4 million. [10] A year later, the business was moved to a larger, 23,000-square-foot facility in North York, which was eventually doubled in size. [4] In 2001, ACE Bakery introduced a line of frozen dough, a process in which the bread was 85 percent baked and then flash frozen. [11]
Thomas Warburton (1837–1909) was an English businessman. In 1870, he founded a grocery shop which became a bakery business, known today as Warburtons.It is now the largest bakery business in the United Kingdom, owned by Jonathan, Ross and Brett Warburton, the fifth generation of the family.