Olde Hearth Bread Company

Olde Hearth Bread Company operates a bakery on Reece Way in Casselberry, just off State Road 436, describing itself on its own website as an original artisan bakery serving the greater Orlando area with handcrafted bread and pastries made without preservatives or artificial flavors. The bakery’s model is built around wholesale as much as retail, supplying local hotels, restaurants, and caterers with bread, in addition to direct pickup orders placed with a few days’ notice, a structure more typical of a working production bakery than a walk-in retail storefront.

That wholesale-forward model explains some of the bakery’s operational choices, including its pickup-only ordering system with preferred windows between 9 in the morning and 4 in the afternoon on weekdays, since a bakery supplying restaurants and hotels on a schedule needs predictable order lead times more than walk-in retail traffic. The bakery also sells directly to the public at area farmers markets, including the Winter Park Farmers Market on Saturday mornings, a common secondary sales channel for small artisan bakeries that lets them reach retail customers without the overhead of a full storefront staffed every day of the week.

The business has a documented history of local recognition, having received an Entrepreneur of the Year honor from Mercantile Commercial Capital in 2007 and an industry recognition award from the Seminole County Chamber of Commerce the following year, both markers that place its operating history at close to two decades in Casselberry by now. The bakery operates under the corporate name Claddagh Corporation Heathrow, Inc., which Florida Sunbiz records list as an active Florida corporation.

For Casselberry and the broader Central Florida restaurant and hospitality industry, Olde Hearth Bread Company functions less as a neighborhood coffee-and-pastry stop and more as a working artisan production bakery, the kind of business that shapes what shows up on other restaurants’ bread baskets across the region even for customers who never visit its Reece Way address directly. Its combination of wholesale supply, direct pickup, and farmers market presence reflects a genuinely independent small manufacturing business built and still operating out of Casselberry.

Reece Way sits just off the busier stretch of 436, in a small industrial and light-commercial pocket of Casselberry not visible from the main road itself, the kind of location a production bakery typically needs for delivery trucks and back-of-house operations rather than walk-in retail visibility. That physical setup reinforces the bakery’s wholesale-first business model: customers are far more likely to encounter Olde Hearth’s bread on a restaurant table across Central Florida than to stumble across its Casselberry production facility by chance, even though the bakery itself has operated from this same corner of the city for close to two decades.