Nick + Sons Bakery
Neighborhood bakery · 3+ locations · Brooklyn, Spring Lake NJ, Red Bank NJ
A Greenpoint bakery known for its croissants, with two more counters in New Jersey. It was started in 2017 by two Brooklyn dads who met through their sons' first-grade class, and they still own all three outright — no investors, no franchising.
The Big Picture
Nick + Sons is owned outright by the two founders who started it as a weekend walk-up window in 2017, with no outside investor and nothing franchised. As a young bakery running three counters, it has little public labor or environmental track record to date. Accountability runs to Nicholas Heavican and Nick Brophy themselves, with no fund, parent, or franchisor above them.
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