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Update: A new owner could take over the Great Harvest Bread Co. location. Here’s the story.
After 40 years in the Kansas City market, the area Great Harvest Bread Co. franchise will be closing.
Sarah and Brian Berlin purchased the current location — in Corinth Square at 4002 W. 83rd St., Prairie Village — in 2015. They plan to close at the end of business on May 11.
“Juggling a family with the pandemic, we just made a decision that it is not a good fit anymore,” Sarah Berlin said. “I love people, I love talking to people and I love baking. I love every aspect of it. So it’s gut-wrenching, devastating.”
The franchise makes its bread from scratch daily, including cinnamon chip, honey whole wheat, harvest white and challah (using a customer’s family recipe). Also on the menu: sandwiches, muffins, scones, cookies and bars, and buns. And it sells granola, pancake mix, dog biscuits and other specialty items.
The area franchise opened in south Kansas City in fall 1981 before moving to 95th Street and Nall Avenue in Overland Park, and then to its current site under different owners.
The Berlins posted the closing on Facebook on Thursday: “It has been our honor to serve you and your family. Thank you for your loyalty and keeping us going through the past years. We’d love to make your favorite recipes one more time, so make a request and we’ll happily pull the recipe from our archive and bake it for you – ingredients permitting.”
So far customers have requested savory herb, sunflower wheat, coconut bread, baked potato bread, Irish soda bread, and peanut butter cookies.
Fans also left comments on the closing:
▪ “I am so sorry to hear that. You guys were the best and every time I got back home to Kansas I would try to get over there. There are other Great Harvest locations but yours was THE Great Harvest location.”
▪ “My heart dropped reading this. I’ve been enjoying your delicious bread since your first day in business. My mom would drive us up and nothing was better than bringing home a bag of the breadsticks and eating a few on the ride back. The perfect cookies. Best wheat breads. So many delicious memories. You will be incredibly missed!”
▪ “So bummed. Love your EVERYTHING. Like can’t pick just one thing.”
▪ “Great Harvest has been such a treasure for Prairie Village and beyond! You will be sorely missed, I’m sure. (And who is going to make my challah recipe for KC now?)”
The Berlins currently have five employees but have had as many as 15. Sarah knows many of her customers by name and their favorite orders.
“We are the third owners and we’ve been so honored to serve generations of families,” she said. “We have people that have grown up eating our bread their entire lives.”
There also is a Great Harvest Bread Co. shop in Lawrence under different owners.
This story was originally published April 22, 2022 12:55 PM.
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