This Family-Owned New Jersey Bakery Gives Back Amid Coronavirus

Press release from Toufayan Bakeries:

April 23 2020

Ridgefield, N.J., - Toufayan Bakeries, one of the oldest family run bakeries in the US, is supporting their employees and communities during this challenging time. While Toufayan Bakeries is well-known for its pita bread and baked goods, the family-run company also focuses on corporate social responsibility in their daily operations. Headquartered in Ridgefield, NJ, with additional factories in Florida, Toufayan Bakeries is helping out in various ways — from increasing wages of frontline workers to donating to food banks and hospitals across the country.

The Toufayan family continues to come to work each day to fill in for employees not able to come to work to perform what is truly an essential business, making sure American families can put bread on their tables. With a bakery in New Jersey just 2 miles from NYC, and two bakeries in Florida, the Toufayans take pride in helping dedicated employees to bake and ship the bread but also by increasing everyone’s pay. raising pay, donating food to hospitals and food banks and giving money. In addition to enhanced pay for front line employees, the Toufayans are making meaningful donations to the organizations doing the hard work of supporting families hit hardest. Hundreds of cases of product have been sent in the last few weeks to food banks and hospitals in Paterson, NJ, New York, and Massachusetts. And Toufayan is donating to the Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida and nourish.NJ with a $200,000 donation to support their increasingly difficult task of feeding families in need during this time.

“For generations the Toufayan family has prided itself on giving back,” said Karen Toufayan, VP of marketing and sales for Toufayan. “The communities where we operate are like our extended families, and it’s never been more important to support them than during these uncertain times.”

About Toufayan Bakeries

Since 1926, families have been relyin' on the fresh taste of Toufayan. Toufayan is one of the oldest and largest privately held specialty bread bakeries in the US. Making the best bread has always been a passion for the Toufayan family. For almost 90 years, the Toufayans have been filling lunch boxes, toasters, and tummies with fresh lines of pitas, flatbreads, bagels, wraps, lavash, and breadsticks. Based in Ridgefield, N.J. with bakeries in Orlando and Plant City, Florida, the third generation of Toufayans oversees the entire process from ingredient sourcing and production to distribution. While trends come and go, high quality, fresh and authentic products are always in demand. The Toufayan family is committed to quality you can taste. Find Toufayan at www.toufayan.com and www.facebook.com/toufayan.

This press release was produced by the Toufayan Bakeries. The views expressed here are the author’s own.