House of Bread - Franchise
Quick Summary
While our concept is old fashioned goodness, our Franchise includes modern, state-of-the-art systems. Our Franchisees are fully supported from day one. Learn more about joining our team, now!
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House of Bread
Business Cost, Fees & Facts for 2026
| Minimum Cash Required | $150,000 | |
| Training & Support | Yes |
Available In These States:
- AK
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- CA
- CO
- GA
- HI
- IA
- ID
- IN
- KS
- KY
- LA
- MO
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- NC
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- NM
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- Overview
House of Bread - Franchise
About Us
Walking into a House of Bread is a sensual delight. There is nothing like the smell and taste of truly Fresh Baked Bread! A few steps in the door and you’ll be greeted with an offer to sample a slice of warm, fresh baked bread right out of the oven. While savoring you sample, watch the bakers scratch making and hand shaping the loaves. Now stay for lunch and enjoy our wonderful bread made into a savory sandwich featuring the quality meats and cheeses from Boar’s Head Meats. Perhaps you'd like a cup of delicious soup, a fresh salad or our gourmet, fair-trade coffee. Everything we offer is made ...
Our Franchisees are fully supported from day one, this includes expert site selection, assistance in securing financing, space design and buildout as well as hands-on Grand Opening support. We continue the marketing support with monthly banners and posters, as well as a tailored social media campaign. Our cutting edge proprietary information system gives owners immediate financial information in order to facilitate sound business decisions.
A Bit of History
Our Founder, Sheila McCann in 1996 traded in her trial attorney suit for a House of Bread apron in order to pursue a more positive career. Her goal was to develop a business that benefited both her and her community, scratch baked fresh bread like her beloved grandma used to make was impossible to find in the local grocery store. Sheila’s research found, to no great surprise, that Bread was one of the most purchased food items in the American pantry. That’s what set Sheila’s dream of recreating the Bread from her childhood into motion and the House of Bread was born; an inviting, naturally wholesome Bakery Café offering the freshest and tastiest products available.
Why You Should Join The House of Bread Team
Strong and Growing Segment
Between fast food and fine dining lies the rapidly growing fast casual café segment. As American consumption trends toward fresher, healthier choices, fast food chain sales have declined. A House of Bread Bakery Café provides busy consumers with fresh, wholesome, scratch made breads, pastries, soups, sandwiches and salads in a comfortable order-at-the-counter setting at competitive prices.
Market Growth
Today’s consumers want delicious, healthy, natural food made locally by people they know and trust. House of Bread Bakery Cafés upscale menu items are made using all natural ingredients and are produced in an inviting atmosphere.
Truly Scratch Baked Breads
Market surveys consistently indicate that the number one consideration in the choice of a sandwich is the quality of the bread. Other sandwich concepts promote their fresh out-of-the-oven bread but fail to mention that the bread is delivered frozen and is full of artificial ingredients and preservatives. House of Bread Bakery Cafés have an open production kitchen where we mix, shape and bake our bread in full view of our customers.
Proprietary Informational System
We use a state-of-the-art point-of-sale information system specifically designed for House of Bread Bakery Café. This system provides our Franchisees with succinct, informative data which generates daily and weekly operations reports including, sales by category, labor costs and cost of goods.
Personal and Strong Franchisee Support and Training
House of Bread offers thorough and systematic training. Training including: Recipes, baking and prep procedures, quality and service standards, inventory management, equipment and safety, food safety, sanitation and health code compliance and point of sale training. House of Bread is a 21 year old proven Bakery Café concept. We are here seven days a week for our Franchisees. We are a community of like-minded entrepreneurs that work together to build and strengthen our brand.
We believe in offering real, honest, quality food to our customers and their families. House of Bread is a special part of the community and our franchisees feel a tremendous sense of pride in the business they own and the products they serve.
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