Grandma's Bakery

History

The Lupo family opened the bakery doors for the first time on a hot summer day in the middle of July of 1978. We started out as a Mister Donut franchise on the East side of St. Paul and from the beginning we've been known for fun, donuts, and great customer service! Grandma's Bakery is proud to continue our baking tradition generation after generation. The first few years were hard and business was slow. From the beginning, John Lupo ran the day to day operations and worked very hard to become the best baker he could. We added cakes, cookies, rolls and breads to the bakery line up and the business began to grow. In December of 1980 we remodeled the Prosperity Avenue store and changed the name to Grandma's Bakery to reflect the wide variety of products we were making. About this time we also started to deliver our products to some wholesale accounts in the area. Our first wholesale order was a delivery for one dozen donuts to a local hotel that was experimenting with a continental b