Baker Of Junior's Cheesecakes Exploring Move To New Jersey
February 16, 2012 | 1 min to read
The New York cheesecake that has made the restaurant Junior’s famous could actually come from New Jersey in the future, if plans to move its bakery to Carteret from Queens go through.
The New Jersey Economic Development Authority’s board yesterday awarded GAD Bakeries, a wholesaler that distributes to the restaurant, a $312,000 Business Employment Incentive Program grant if it brings 65 jobs to the state and opens a 47,000-square-foot, $5 million facility in Carteret. The bakery, which sells approximately 6,000 cheesecakes every week, is also considering relocating to Long Island, according to its application.
The company declined to comment further on its plans.
The iconic Junior’s has been in business since 1950, when Harry Rosen founded the restaurant on at the corner of Flatbush and DeKalb avenues in Brooklyn. It has has since grown into a New York cultural touchstone. Between its Brooklyn flagship, a storefront in Grand Central terminal, a restaurant in Times Square and at the MGM Grand casino in Foxwoods, Conn., the company says it produces more than a million cheesecakes a year “so rich and creamy it makes tough men swoon.” GAD is a corporate entity operated by the owners of Junior’s, now in their third-generation.
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