Customization Services
Custom Unique Bakery Products
Our sales and development teams have extensive experience in creating unique and tantalizing bakery products that enable food operators to deliver superior results. Whether its adaptive pack sizes, innovative formats or product enhancements, we deliver signature baked goods that provide back of the house solutions for our customers.
Product Line Up
Healthy Baked Goods
Main Street Gourmet has the capability to provide several different options for customers desiring specialization in the health-conscious arena.
Proprietary Recipes
We can produce your proprietary recipes or create special baked goods from scratch.
Innovative Packaging
We have the know-how and experience to put your baked goods in a packaging format to provide efficient and consistent results.
Flexibility
We excel at adapting to your needs! We will personally work with you to develop your product and explore all of the options available.
Portion Control Efficiency
Whether it’s a batter, dough, or a thaw and serve item, we can create efficiencies from your current methods.
See what we can do for you!
We invite you to visit our modern production facility and headquarters located on Muffin Lane in Akron, Ohio.
We look forward to working with you.
Main Street Muffins is on the Inc. 500 List: Inc. magazine's list of the 500 fastest growing companies in America; we come in at number 319.
Steve Marks and Harvey Nelson meet in nursery school. Harvey takes two blueberry muffins at snack time, leaving none for Steve. This would leave an indelible mark on both of them.
Harvey and Steve become roommates in college. Unwilling to clean dishes (or anything else in the kitchen), they eat out every meal where they first see the magic of eating prepared foods.
We outgrow the downtown building and move into an old fish distribution warehouse. Simultaneously, Main Street Muffins becomes the number one user of Christmas tree car deodorizers in an effort to eliminate fish smell from building.
We introduce thaw and serve muffins (considered "serve and thaw muffins" but became concerned about dental injuries).
Steve Marks and his family start the Akron Marathon. It is wildly speculated that the marathon was started so that people could eat more muffins, cookies and brownies. Much less known, Harvey and his family start an 8 hour Comedy Central TV marathon where they actually do eat more muffins, cookies and brownies.
Main Street Gourmet® enters the granola market. Kellogg's and Nature Valley's stock drops 22% on the news. Coincidence? We don't think so.
The Mayor of Akron proclaims July 17th as "Muffin Day" ... really! The Chinese calendar is changed to the Year of the Muffin from Year of the Pig. Pigs across the world refuse to eat baked goods.
A fast growing national restaurant chain chooses Main Street Gourmet® to supply a custom granola for its yogurt parfaits. Main Street Gourmet considers name change to "Main Street Granola and Other Custom Bakery Products" but holds off because it doesn't fit on letterhead.
Main Street Gourmet begins producing and selling pre-packaged “granola clusters” for a major club operator. US Government Trademark and Patent office refuses trademark application for “Granola Clusters” so name is changed to “Small Group of Something with Granola”. Movie rights to the Main Street Gourmet story sold to Stanley Spielberg, distant cousin of a famous director/producer. Book rights still available for sale!
Ground is broken on the building expansion and renovation project that will increase capacity and functionality. Not coincidentally, psychiatry bills for the Co-CEOs escalate.
