Smør Bakery
Dining · 4+ locations · Manhattan: East Village; Brooklyn: Clinton Hill, Williamsburg
Smør Bakery grew from one East Village storefront to four across Manhattan and Brooklyn, still run day-to-day by its two founding chefs. They've funded the growth mostly from their own profits and one small loan, with no outside investor turning up in press or funding records.
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Smør Bakery is still run day-to-day by the two Copenhagen-trained chefs who opened it as one storefront in 2019, now four across Manhattan and Brooklyn, funded mostly from their own profits. As a young, small operation, it has little public labor or environmental record yet — wage and enforcement searches turned up nothing, but there isn't much to check against either. Ownership stays with its founders, who answer to their own bakery rather than a fund or parent company.
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