After selling its Au Bon Pain division in 1999 to private investors, management began expanding its Panera Bread stores, Mr. Ingersol said.
Others, like Giorgi Kalandaze, who owns a bread store, had not concluded whether the video clip was authentic or whether it "was done to discredit the opposition".
"It's not the government's right to say that you've got to move, you, a person who lived here and paid taxes here," Mr. Bianco, 63, said in a Panera Bread store.
Krispy Kreme also said it was closing its Montana Mills Bread stores, an operation that it bought a year ago and that as recently as mid-April it said it planned to continue refining and expanding.
"It seems that home bakers don't always follow instructions precisely," said Amy Scherber, the owner of Amy's Bread stores in Manhattan (where she also makes cakes and cookies, including orange butter cookies).
If a single element unites what remains of the Italian South Village today, as well as drawing people from all over the city, it is the savory, pungent, aromatic presence of pork, cheese and bread stores -- and the bakeries.
Farther down Bleecker Street at No. 259, I downed a $1.25 mozzarella and roasted pepper sandwich at Zito & Sons Bakery while talking to Julius Zito, born into the hands of a midwife 76 years ago in the back of this Bleecker Street bread store.
Whereas barbecues in Sydney and Melbourne stores frequently dish up sausage sizzles on pieces of bread, stores in and around Jess's neck of the woods pride themselves on peddling a premium meal.
