Conroe bakery inside of furniture store makes entirely homemade goods
[ad_1]
Before opening a bakery inside a Conroe furniture store, Jon Iacono spent nearly five decades in the restaurant industry — opening several restaurants across the U.S.
After moving to Conroe from California, Iacono said he needed to get back to work. In October 2022, he opened Jon’s Bakery and Deli inside the American Furniture Warehouse off Interstate 45 in Conroe.
On YourCourierNews.com: Houston restaurants with Thanksgiving meals to go, dinner takeout
“I went in there one day looking for furniture for my new house that I bought out here,” Iacono said, noting he immediately asked for the manager’s number to try and work a deal to open the bakery. “The build-out was already there, I had the equipment.”
From cookies to cinnamon roles, everything at the bakery is homemade, said Zak Galindo, who took over Iacono’s business in September.
Due to medical issues, Iacono set out to find someone to take over. He would frequent Galindo’s Coffee Co. on FM 1488 and he met Galindo and his wife, Sophie, who owns the coffee shop, he said.
After meeting with them, he approached the couple to take over his bakery, he said. The couple took over as the new owners of the bakery in September.
For two months, the Galindos trained with Iacono — starting their day around 5 a.m., prepping the dough to bake for pastries and other goods, Galindo said.
“We were there at 5:30 in the morning with him, all the way to closing time at 6 p.m.,” Galindo said. “It was really important for him also that, whoever took the place over had as much passion and as much pride in doing things the way he did…for us, we have a saying, ‘the way you do something is the way you do everything.’ It was really important that we were able to show that.”
The couple rebranded the bakery as Galndo’s Bakery and Deli, promising to not change anything from Iacono’s original menu — something that has gained the attention of Conroe residents for its homemade and fresh products.
The bakery and deli serves pastries as well as other food items such as breakfast burritos, pizza and sandwiches.
“There’s (some) people that come into the furniture store because they want the food,” Galindo said. “They don’t come in looking for furniture.”
Looking for a husband and wife team
Originally from Honduras, Galindo grew up sitting in old-school barbershops in Chicago, a market he felt was untapped in the Conroe area.
After opening Galindo’s barbershop, the couple soon opened a second location, a coffee shop and a spa, Galindo said.
“What we did in the barbershop, aside from cutting hair, we were building a community,” he said.
On YourCourierNews.com: Conroe Chamber unveils new design, location for community leaders ‘Wall of Honor’
…
[ad_2]
Read More: Conroe bakery inside of furniture store makes entirely homemade goods