In 1983, Steve Jacobs made a bold decision: he left a career in Higher Education to start a home food service business delivering meats and seafood directly to families across Massachusetts. With every order, Steve included a freshly baked coffee cake as a thank-you gift for his customers.
Before long, customers began calling not for meats or seafood, but for the cake. “Just the cake for now,” they’d say. For years, Steve operated as The Gypsy Baking Company, traveling up to 50 miles on Sundays to rent shuttered bakeries and bake fresh.
In 1999, Steve established a permanent 3,000-square-foot production facility in Milford, Massachusetts. Today, every cake is still made from scratch with the same devotion to quality that turned a free gift into a calling.