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Erick Schat's Bakkerÿ, also formatted as Erick Schat's Bakery, is a bakery in
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. It is known for its extensive bread production and its status as a pit stop to travelers along
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region. In 2021, it received 2.5 million visitors.


History

The original bakery was started by the Schoch family from
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in 1903. Basque sheepherders had the Schochs build a stone oven to bake their sheepherder bread and keep it fresh while they were out tending their flocks. Jacob "Jack" Schat, immigrated to the U.S. from
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in the Netherlands in 1950, subsequently finding work at the Schoch's bakery in Bishop. Baking in his family went as far back as 1893. He eventually bought the bakery and had six children, including Erick, the shop's namesake and owner until he died in 2021. The bakery became more well-known when the family sold wholesale goods to 2,000 grocery stores in
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. The family expanded their operations by opening David Schat's Bakery Cafe and Aaron Schat's Roadhouse in October 2011 in El Segundo and August 2014 in Bishop, respectively. The bakery cafe is more of a small version of the original, and closed in December 2012, after only a year of service due to a lack of customers. The roadhouse serves various sandwiches on bread from the bakery and is still open as of 2024. There are also locations in
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, Utah, and Ontario. All of the bakeries under the Schat "brand" are not part of a franchise; they are only owned by members of the same family.


Menu


Sheepherder bread

One of the bakery's main trademarks is its sheepherder bread. The bread was introduced to the
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during
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immigrants in 1907 who missed their home country's bread. They hand-shaped the loaves and used stone ovens when producing it. This practice is continued by the bakery when making their bread. It is made from "butter, grade AA eggs, unbleached flour, cane sugar, and artesian well water." It was
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ed in 1938.


Other items

The bakery also sells many other varieties of bread and pastries, including squaw, cinnamon pull-apart
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s, turnovers,
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s,
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, '' oliebol'',
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s, plain cheese, and chili-cheese.


References


External links

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1903 establishments in California Bakeries of California Bishop, California Restaurants established in 1903 Restaurants in California