Hearthland Baking

…the frozen subsidiary of Grimaldi Bakery Corp.

artisan quality, service, value
  …this is the Hearthland Promise

Shouldn’t the bread you use be as good as the food you prepare? Be it a sandwich, or a full course dinner, you work hard to put the best before your customers. The bread you serve should support and complement your efforts. Hearthland’s real hearth bread and rolls do just that. One hundred years of tradition & experience have enabled us to craft for you the top quality breads you seek. Finest quality natural ingredients are carefully blended according to our Old World family recipes by skilled bakers. Using custom equipment all Hearthland products are long proofed, then slow baked in hearth ovens.

Value is a combination of many things. And what constitutes value is unique from customer to customer. Hearthland will learn and understand your special needs, and work together with you to devise a custom program of pricing, service and support that gives you total value.

why frozen?(OOT)

Frozen bread is the freshest bread. No, it’s not contradictory. Consider…By placing bread in a state of suspended animation through quick freezing, its freshness is retained, allowing it to travel through time & distance to you. Our special glide slope system – an integral step in our continuous baking process – locks in the full essence of real hearth-bread. Awakened in your store, the "fresh from the oven" flavor, texture, crust & crumb burst forth.

the thaw & serve advantage

Hearthland gives you real choice.

A full line of gourmet breads, rolls & bagels in unique doughs as well as white. Specially prepared and packed for thaw & serve – yet can be easily warmed in your existing equipment – for hot, fresh service at table.

Further advantages include easy stocking; virtually zero preparation, increased control of waste; and freedom from the uncertainties of routemen’s schedules.

With its wide range of items the "HealthyBaked" Hearth Bread Program is ideal for in-store bakeries, restaurants, delis, sub shops, convenience stores and smaller markets. Anywhere, in fact, that desires a fresh, hot, top quality hearth bread ready in an instant.

the par-baked advantage

Hearthland gives you real choices.

Our special technology lets you control the actual bake. Use your regular equipment. No complicated overnight thawing, proofing, standing or docking are required. Hot, fresh true hearth breads, rolls & bagels, finished to your taste, emerge from the oven in minutes. Pop it in the oven simple.

Further advantages include the ability to custom bake the product, at unit level, to the patrons’ preferred level of doneness; increased control of waste; and freedom from the uncertainties of routemen’s schedules.

With its wide range of items the "HealthyBaked" Hearth Bread Program is ideal for in-store bakeries, restaurants, delis, sub shops, convenience stores and smaller markets. Anywhere, in fact, that desires a fresh, hot, top quality hearth bread prepared with Pop it in the oven simplicity.

the Retail Ready advantage

Over the past ten years the in-store bakery has become the neighborhood bakery. Customers depend on you for an increasingly wide variety of breads & rolls. Moreover, they look to you for a full panoply of quality pastries, muffins, donuts, cookies and cakes. Specially decorated cakes for parties and special occasions are sought at your counter.

There are only so many hours in a day…only so many staffers in a store. As good as the items you bake yourself, Retail Ready products are designed to enable you to best advantage the skill sets of your bakery staffers, and to maximize your labor dollar utilization by providing you with a considered selection of high quality, pre-packaged, real hearth breads & rolls.

Richly formulated…long proofed…slow hearth baked under steam…Retail Ready breads & rolls make use of unique naturally occurring enzymes, combined with our special glide slope freezing process, to give you baked goods that thaw quickly & display easily. Maintaining their in-store shelf freshness for three to five days…fresh at home, they are consumer re-freezable.

Freed from repetitive early morning FRD panning, proofing, baking & packing duties, in-store bakers can devote their time & talents to making more demanding, more desired, higher margin items.

Retail Ready from Hearthland…finest quality…easy to use…value laden…worthy of your name.