Street Breads owner Josh Priola is expanding his popular sandwich shop to a second Baton Rouge location at 5454 Bluebonnet Blvd., next to Albasha restaurant in a strip mall near the intersection of Bluebonnet and Interstate 10. Priola says he chose the location, which previously housed an independently owned pharmacy, because “it’s the center of Baton Rouge.”
Priola has made no secret of his plans to expand Street Breads, which he founded in Lake Charles five years ago and brought to Baton Rouge’s Perkins Road Overpass neighborhood in late 2012. Since then, sales at the sandwich shop have been doing very well, says Priola, who plans to open three more locations over the next 18 months.
The new location will be about 1,600 square feet and will include a facelift to the existing façade.
“The landlord (George Kurz) is planning to brighten it up with new lighting, new exterior improvements and additional parking,” Priola says. “They are making this our best investment to date.”
Construction will take an estimated four months. Priola hopes to be open by Dec. 1.
Read a recent Entrepreneur feature from Business Report on Priola.
—Stephanie Riegel
