Deerfields Bakery celebrating 125 years of baking
Buffalo Grove, IL – September 13, 2011 – Deerfields Bakery, an award winning retail and wholesale bakery is celebrating 125 years of creative family baking.
On Saturday, October 15, 2011, Deerfields Bakery invites customers to participate in their 125th Birthday Bash. Festivities will be celebrated at the Buffalo Grove location from 4:00 -8:00pm. The celebration will include refreshments, music, signature sweets and a spectacular dessert presentation. Adding to the excitement of the day, nationally acclaimed pastry chef, and former Deerfields Bakery executive chef, Gale Gand, will be on hand to greet customers and sign copies of her cookbooks.
To further commemorate this milestone Deerfields Bakery has created Share a Slice, a way for customers to share their most cherished stories about Deerfields Bakery. Customers are invited to share their memories of Deerfields throughout the years with a story, photo or drawing. These memories will be posted in-store for other customers to view, or guests can upload their stories onto Deerfields facebook page. Postings can also be emailed to shareaslice@deerfieldbakery.com. Prizes for the top three stories will be announced on October 15 at the 125th Birthday Bash.
Deerfields Bakery will also offer special in-store pricing on signature pastries and sweets during the week of October 10-15.
Deerfields Bakery got its start 125 years ago when Adam Schmitt opened Schmitts Bakery, in Weisloch, Germany in 1886. Adam’s son Carl immigrated to the United States and in 1911 opened a bakery in Chicago and named it “New York Bakery”. Years later, Carl’s son Henry took over the business and renamed it Schmitt’s Bake Shop and expanded to several locations in the Chicago area.
Despite losing the Schmitt Bake Shop business in the 1960’s from over expansion, Henry started over with the acquisition of the existing “Deerfield Bakery”. Soon after, his three children, Kathi, Karl and Kurt, one by one, joined him in the family business. Over the next decades, Deerfield Bakery added two more locations, in Buffalo Grove and Schaumburg, and an “s” to its formal name making it “Deerfields Bakery”. Today, Henry’s grandson, Tim Schmitt, is the fifth generation family member to take the reins and manage the bakery.
Deerfields Bakery still holds true to the same tradition of quality that Adam Schmitt started so long ago. In this ever evolving world, Chicagoland residents continue to find comfort in Deerfields Bakery’s creative baking and signature sweets for special occasions, or any occasion.
If you would like more information about this celebration or to schedule an interview with Tim Schmitt, please call Scott Brandel at (847) 344-3569 or email at scott@deerfieldsbakery.com.
