Ybor Institution Struggles To Find People Who Can Bake Cuban Bread Like It’s 1915

TAMPA — The brick and mortar part was easy. This summer, the 103-year-old La Segunda Bakery — the world’s largest producer of Cuban bread — will open a new store on W Kennedy Boulevard.

The hard part is finding people who can make Cuban bread the way it was done in 1915.

"No one seems to be able to do the old way today," said La Segunda co-owner Tony More, whose Spanish immigrant grandfather founded the Ybor City bakery after arriving here more than a century ago.

The "old way’’ isn’t easy.

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