Artisanal baker Slow Dough Bread Co. has already had an eventful last 12 months between expanding into Austin and opening its first retail outpost, Slow Dough Bake Shop, as part of popular Midtown restaurant Weights + Measures, but the company is poised for even more growth in the months to come.
The company recently completed a year-long negotiation with organic grocer Whole Foods Market to purchase the company's 40,000-square-foot production kitchen and bakery. Located at the intersection of the Sam Houston Tollroad and US 59, the facility is almost three times the size of Slow Dough's current, 15,000-square-foot facility on Westpark. Terms of the deal have not been disclosed.
"We’re taking over their entire commissary and all their existing equipment," Slow Dough owner and fifth-generation baker Heath Wendell tells CultureMap. "They built it in 2007. They equipped it very nicely."
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