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Wholesale Golden Bakery Grateful Bread Pivots to Retail Sales Pandemic-driven demand for the shop’s loaves and pastries led owners Jeff Cleary and Kathy Mullen to expand direct-to-consumer sales. Sarah Kuta •   March 1, 2021 On a Saturday morning in mid-February, when temperatures were in the single digits along the Front Range, a socially distanced crowd gathered outside Grateful Bread in Golden. Despite the below-zero windchill, nearly 300 hardy Coloradans showed up for the chance to buy the bakery’s lemon Danishes, sticky buns, maple pecan snickerdoodles, loaves of bread, and othe...

Lona and Steve Thompson are in the middle of the queue Saturday, out in the nose-numbing cold for 15 minutes, not quite close enough to read the “People Hate Us On YELP” sign on the front door of this small cafe strung with paper lanterns, hung with eclectic art, adorned with Mr. Potato Heads and plastic dinosaurs, and filled with the smells of simmering soups. How are they? “Freezing,” says Lona. “We’ve been here since 11:15, and we haven’t moved.” That’s because most of the line for what Grateful Bread is serving — soup and cinnamon rolls...