Franz Bakery
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| Company type | Private |
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| Industry | Food processing |
| Founded | 1906 |
| Founder | Englebert and Joe Franz |
| Headquarters | Portland, Oregon USA |
| Website | www.usbakery.com/ |
United States Bakery, better known as Franz Family Bakeries, is located in Portland, Oregon. Franz Bakery was founded in 1906. U.S. Bakery also owns the Northwest regional bread brands Williams', Gai's, and Snyder's.
History
In collaboration with E. E. Franz of Franz Bakery, W.P. Yaw of Yaw's Top Notch Restaurant invented the five-inch diameter hamburger bun in the late 1920s.[1] Though others are credited with creating a bread product to use for the first hamburgers known to the world, Franz is credited for inventing the hamburger bun in its current world-wide accepted form.[citation needed]
U.S. Bakery acquired Eugene-based Williams' Bakery in 1991, and the Seattle, Washington-based Gai's Bakery in 1997.[2][3]
In 2006, the Williams' factory, which had operated on the same site near the University of Oregon (UO) since 1908, was closed and the site sold to the UO, which as of 2007 planned to use it as the location of a new basketball arena.[4][5] Williams' relocated to a new plant in the Glenwood area of neighboring Springfield.[5] It was the first new bakery the firm had built from the ground up since 1906.[6]
Guinness World Record
In July 2006, Franz baked a 104-foot, 9.5 inch hot dog bun in a successful attempt to break the Guinness World Record for the World's longest hot dog.[citation needed]
References
- ^ Mayfield, Mitch. "Cruisin' Yaw's". Historical Highlights of Hollywood: Portland State University students and Multnomah County Library.
- ^ "Historical Timeline". U.S. Bakery. Retrieved 2007-11-23.
- ^ "United States Bakery Acquires Gai's Bakery". United States Bakery (press release) via Business Wire. February 24 1997. Retrieved 2007-11-23.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ Bolt, Greg (November 10 2007). "State board approves UO arena plan". Retrieved 2007-11-23.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ a b Welch, Bob (September 21 2006). "Campus missing that bakery bliss". Register-Guard (via goliath.ecnext.com). Retrieved 2007-11-23.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help); Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ "Franz Family Bakeries Opens New Bakery in Springfield". United States Bakery (press release). August 28 2006. Retrieved 2007-11-23.
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External links
- Franz Family Bakeries (official website)
- United States Bakery profile from Hoover's
- Historic images of Franz Bakery from Salem Public Library