Bakery Gnädinger stops – “We’ve lost our nerve”



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Yasmine and Andy Gnädinger sell their bakery and the successful vegan Café Sprössling to Buchmann. Because the money is lacking for the renovation of the traditional house, and for Corona.

Why not just work in service?  Co-managing director Yasmine Gnädinger has to look for a new job in the new year.

Why not just work in service? Co-managing director Yasmine Gnädinger has to look for a new job in the new year.

Photo: Raisa Durandi

The vegan raspberry donut tastes fantastic, “better than all the competition in this city,” says Marc Steffner, and the psych student takes another bite. You just made a selection of the delicious ones, wrap handmade cakes as a birthday present for a friend. At Sprössling, which has the traditional Gnädinger bakery on Schaffhauserplatz, right across from the main shop, everything is vegan, from donuts to kebabs.

On Friday, people line up on both sides. Many because they read that morning that their favorite bakery is closing and selling to its competitor Buchmann. Others come here to buy what they see as the best bread in town, as they do every day: pensioner Hans Leu, for example, who came here by tram from Oerlikon, is a fan of potato bread. “And on Saturday I come for the poppy seed braid,” he says. Leu is terribly sad that the Gnädingers are giving up. “But why?”

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