Franz Bakery Outlet — Restaurant in Provo

Get their woven-plastic shopping bags for a few dollars; they're heavy duty bags (better than canvas) and mean you can get a free bread item with the purchase of ANYTHING. So, you can buy a clearance mini turnover pie for 50 cents and get seedy 24-grain bread that's $4 in grocery stores. Granted, I'm not a big fan of their pies and instead get a box of clearanced Little Debbies or Sunbelt granola bars for $1.29. If you pend $10, you'll get a second free item. (You can use up to 3 such bags each time, assuming you're buying enough bread to fill them and thus warrant each extra free item.) Now, this is pretty good bread, and it's not stale, but I'd recommend freezing it if you don't eat it pretty quickly. You can also get "duck bread," meaning stale bread to feed ducks at the nearby Paul Reams Wilderness Park, even though it's junk food to them, and that's 5 loaves to $1. (You're often required to buy in multiples of 5.) If you don't care about stale, just pinching pennies, you could do that and immediately freeze it for toast, stuffing, French toast, and croutons. It's not moldy, just not especially fresh. They also have several types of cookies, Little Debbie boxed treats, Sunbelt granola bars, rolls, and a few overpriced shelf items like jam and gravy mix. Almost everything is a little cheaper per item when you buy 2. It's a good place to buy whole-grain bread, especially using the bag for a free loaf, but it's not a full-service bakery with all of the trimmings. The black Sharpie line on the bag means it's got less shelf life and thus considered bargain bread. It's this bargain bread (and buns, and sometimes raisin or peach-cobbler bread) that you get as those free items. They also have some okay gluten-free bread that I think costs $5 each or 2 for $9, but sometimes it's on sale for less. Definitely freeze any of that you aren't using quickly, mostly because it's too pricey not to. They also usually have a coloring contest going for kids, so just ask for some of the cute coloring pages on display at the counter (usually relating to the next upcoming holiday). Bring them back colored in for a free cookie or something and they get displayed. Not a bad store. Limited hours, though....

A tiny little bakery outlet shop with all sorts of little surprises I would not have imagined. Banana milk? Vanilla coca-cola coffe!! Of course I'll try anything new worth a shot, and I LOVED the cola coffee. Awesome unique flavors of chips, as well. And it was such a quiet spot. There were two ladies staffing it, and only two or three other people visited to shop while we were there. The are some great deals but dint expect a bathroom. And there is an odd chemical smell when you enter, but fades after being in the store. It may be the smell of all the bagged yeast products. Who can say? I will be checking in again when I'm in the area - it isn't all about badges yet...

This is a great place to get inexpensive breads. They have discount loaves and regular price loaves of a number of different brand of bread, including gluten free (which are slightly less expensive than at the grocery store). They also have a few treats like donuts, circus crackers, hand pies, etc. If you spend $10, you get a free loaf off the discount wall, $15 is 2 free loaves, $20 is 3 free loaves. It's an old building, but reminds me of old grocery stores when I was a kid. I've never been unhappy with the quality of what...