{"id":207398,"date":"2021-03-21T06:00:47","date_gmt":"2021-03-21T03:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/hawaiis-iconic-loves-bakery-closing-after-170-years-due-to-covid\/"},"modified":"2021-03-21T06:00:47","modified_gmt":"2021-03-21T03:00:47","slug":"hawaiis-iconic-loves-bakery-closing-after-170-years-due-to-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/hawaiis-iconic-loves-bakery-closing-after-170-years-due-to-covid\/","title":{"rendered":"#Hawaii’s iconic Love’s Bakery closing after 170 years due to COVID"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Hawaii’s iconic Love’s Bakery closing after 170 years due to COVID<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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Hawaiians are bidding a bittersweet aloha to a beloved longtime bakery.<\/p>\n

Love\u2019s Bakery will close at the end of March, after the COVID-19 pandemic brought the operation to its knees, SFGate reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The bakery has been spreading the love since 1851, and first fired up its ovens more than a century before Hawaii became the 50th state.<\/p>\n

The Honolulu mainstay<\/a> employees 231 people \u2014 who will all lose their jobs \u2014 and normally distributes about 400,000 loaves to 1,800 customers every week, the website reports.<\/p>\n

Demand for bread is way down during the pandemic, with hotels and restaurants closed and increased local competition had reportedly taking a big cut out of Love\u2019s dough.<\/p>\n

Loves said it was \u201cseriously delinquent\u201d in rent payments, and spent all $2.8 million it received in federal COVID-19 relief loans to maintain payroll, according to the site. <\/p>\n

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The Honolulu bakery employed 231 people.<\/figcaption>
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\u201cWe have worked diligently to cut expenses, to maintain our market share and to remedy our operational difficulties, however under the current business environment we are no longer able to continue operations,\u201d the company said in a statement to the media<\/a>, the outlet said.<\/p>\n

Hawaii\u2019s geographic isolation also contributed to the bakery\u2019s pandemic woes.<\/p>\n

\u201cCOVID-19 has also impacted many of our mainland suppliers causing delays in the ingredients and replacement parts for our aging bakery equipment,\u201d its\u00a0Federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) letter and Hawaii Dislocated Workers Act notice\u00a0said<\/a>. \u201cWith the decline in revenue and the increasing expenses to keep a bakery running, we have made the difficult decision to cease operations as a faltering business.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Love\u2019s had received $2.8 million in federal COVID-19 aid but used that to reportedly maintain payroll.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

When Love\u2019s Bakery kneaded its first loaf of bread 170 years ago, King Kamehameha III was on the Hawaiian throne.<\/p>\n

Love\u2019s homegrown operations rapidly expanded during the world wars, and by 1943 the company was baking bread around the clock in a 144-foot-long oven that put out 8,000 loaves an hour, SF Gate said.<\/p>\n

By 1945, it was reportedly flying the bread to neighboring islands by charter plane as Hawaii\u2019s population rapidly grew.<\/p>\n

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Love\u2019s had distributed about 400,000 loaves of bread per week. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Businesses around the nation and the world have been struggling to make bread since the pandemic shuttered commerce. More than half of US businesses forced to close will never reopen again, according to one study.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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