He has been advised the only way to get around the regulations would be to open a second boulangerie with different opening hours.
He is negotiating a lease to open a P'tite Boulangerie in the 10th Arrondissement in Paris, and working to strike a deal with Biocoop, an organic grocery, to put the microbakeries in some of the chain's 400 stores around the country by year's end.
In fact, Hebey went on to design dozens of Saint Laurent Rive Gauche boutiques around the world, from 1966, when the first one opened in a boulangerie-turned-antiques shop in Paris, until 1993.
In June, their dream of opening an authentic French boulangerie and café became a reality.
Even though Raffi has a large independent cigar business in California and Tiffany owned a Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory franchise, their true passion revolved around a dream to open an authentic French boulangerie, similar to the ones they had often enjoyed on the streets of Paris.
The Cronut is indebted to another surprisingly everyday innovator, the baker August Zang, a retired Austrian soldier who opened Boulangerie Viennoise in 1830s Paris and began serving what was then a Parisian quirk: flaky puff pastry in the shape of a crescent.
But that's precisely what Eric Kayser has created since he opened his little boulangerie on Rue Monge near the Sorbonne in Paris in 1996.
By the time Mr. Rigo left Munchery, he had decided to open La P'tite Boulangerie here.
The bike-share stations are everywhere, so I picked up a bike near the hotel (keying in a code paid for in advance at velo.toulouse.fr) and began looking for an open boulangerie in the old center.
And it will soon include a boulangerie, an inn and spa in Yountville designed by the architect Antoine Predock, and an as-yet unnamed restaurant set to have its debut at the AOL Time Warner building when it opens in New York.
