WORCESTER – Widoff’s Bakery, a city institution dating back to 1907, closed for good over the weekend.
The bakery, which shut down for three days in June to address problems found by city and state health inspectors, closed Saturday after owner Mark Picard experienced problems with the bakery’s ovens. The business had been struggling to address the inspection issues and in June launched a $100,000 GoFundMe campaign to raise money to fix its roof and buy new equipment. That online campaign was unsuccessful, however. At the time, then-co-owner Joey Ducas of Sutton told the Telegram & Gazette the business had been struggling for some time. Between June and this weekend, Mr. Ducas had stepped away from owning the bakery, according to Worcester lawyer Jonathan Finkelstein. Mr. Finkelstein said he had been helping Mr. Picard manage the business for the last several weeks. “We had been closed too often in the past few months because of a number of items ... so we had to make a decision,” Mr. Finkelstein explained. One last-ditch effort to save Widoff’s was made by the building’s new owner, Edward J. Murphy, principal of the limited liability corporation Baystate Investment Fund Inc. Baystate purchased the 19,000-square foot building at 121-129 Water St. for $550,000 on July 16, according to the Worcester Registry of Deeds. Click here for the full article: https://www.telegram.com/article/20150721/NEWS/150729849 Comments are closed.
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