🍞 Mid-July miscellanea: Laune Bread is pausing, then scaling back

The arrival of Front Porch Pies isn't the only bakery shakeup coming to 36th and Lake. The owners of Laune Bread announced yesterday that they'll shutter the bakery for six weeks starting next month, and will return with just the two original bakers and co-owners.

Running the bakery "has brought unforeseen challenges, financially, physically, emotionally, and mentally," owners Tiff Ri and Chris MacLeod wrote in their newsletter, "and we no longer see a path to sustainability under our current model." They say they hope the changes — which include laying off the remainder of the staff and scaling back their hours and offerings — will allow them to stabilize the business and "regain the perspective and alignment that brought us to baking in the first place."