Con Pane Rustic Breads & Cafe

Working hard BTS to bring back your favorite recipes including our fresh baked focaccia & more

Looking forward to more sundays like these :@kelseyhennegen

Gorgonzola, red onions & walnuts atop soft delicious focaccia. While we're busy preparing for reopening, we'll just leave this here.

We're looking to hire exceptional bakers for the following positions: OVEN/HEAD BAKER (1:00am - 9:00am) This early morning position evaluates cold proofed bread loaf for readiness to bake, then scores, loads and bakes breads to proper color. Additional responsibilities include baking off some pastries, scaling and mixing preferments and assisting with dividing and shaping dough.... MIXER (5:00am - 1:30pm) The mixer is responsible for scaling and mixing bread dough per procedures to ensure the proper consistency and hydration of the dough. Additional responsibilities include scaling ingredients, and dividing and shaping dough by hand (not by machine). Please submit resumes to [email protected].

We've been kneading up something new! Follow us on Instagram // instagram.com/conpanecafe for updates leading up to our reopening this fall!

Have ya heard the news? Con Pane is scheduled to reopen September 2020 as a part of the Cohn Restaurant Group Family!

Last week we shared some of our SAF instant yeast with our neighbors. We have continued to receive request and will do this one more time on Friday, April 17th, from 12:00pm to 3:00pm. Unfortunately, this will be the last time we will be able to do so as our time at Liberty Station has come to an end. Stay safe and we will get through this together.

Dear Longtime Friends and Customers: First, I wanted to express my profound thanks for all your kind messages, cards, emails, flowers, and phone calls. They mean more than I can express. You have also asked many questions. How did this happen? Will we reopen? How can you help? I apologize for not bringing you up to date sooner. As you can imagine, we have been quite busy. Finally, here are some answers. When we first opened the bakery twenty years ago, Burgie and I b...aked around 150 loaves of bread a day, the only pastry we baked was the Pear & Almond Scone and we were beyond excited if we made 25 sandwiches in one day!! Last year we baked over 350,000 loaves of bread including baking bread for some of San Diego’s best and most unique restaurants like Bali Hai, The 3rd Corner, Tiger!Tiger!, Tender Greens and Mitch’s Seafood. Last year, we also baked over 120,000 pastries, made over 80,000 sandwiches and served almost 50,000 cups of coffee. Obviously, Burgie and I could not have done this alone. We had the help of an incredible staff, especially our baking staff most of whom had come to us with years of experience and had been with us for between 10 and 12 years. These were highly skilled craftsmen and women, who masterfully prepared our breads and pastries to the high quality and consistency standards you came to expect and appreciate, often working the most difficult shifts. It would be impossible to hire a team of bakers of this stature and train to this level on short notice, so we made the difficult decision to close. To expel any erroneous and unfounded rumors, please note, throughout our 20 years in business, we have diligently complied with all rules and regulations that govern business, including complying with DHS audit requirements. Thankfully, at the conclusion of the DHS Audit, we received a warning in lieu of a fine. And although we had no choice but to close the bakery, not only do I not blame any team member, instead, I thank them for their years of dedication and hard work. And that is what hurts the most. These bakers and Con Pane’s entire staff had to leave a thriving business. They lost the jobs they loved (at least most of them) and that helped support their families. Some of you have thoughtfully suggested a Go Fund Me page to help Con Pane. I do not need the help, but thank you for the suggestion. I still want to find a way to help the staff who are now unemployed. So, any suggestions for them would be welcomed. As to the present, we are evaluating our options and the numerous offers we have received which include reopening under my ownership or different ownership, reopening in this location or another location, or in another form. Nothing has been decided, but our decision has been complicated by proposed significant increases in lease costs. When it rains, it pours. I enjoyed hearing from all of you and hope that soon, together, we will eat more bread.

GIFT CERTIFICATE REIMBURSEMENT Thank you in your patience and understanding in the time it has taken to address unused gift certificates as we completed DHS paperwork and closing activities. We are committed to reimbursing our customers for unused gift certificates. However, as we do not have staff to facilitate physical exchanges at the bakery, to redeem unused gift certificates, please mail original gift certificates to the bakery at 2750 Dewey Road and please include a name to whom the check should be addressed and a mailing address. Gift Certificate copies and/or purchase receipts cannot be used to receive a reimbursement. We will reimburse gift certificates until February 28, 2020. Again, thank you for your patience.

After first opening Con Pane Rustic Breads & Café on Rosecrans and Canon in Point Loma in 1999, 20 plus years ago, then moving to Liberty Station in 2010, we have permanently closed the café as of January 15, 2020. We will cease wholesale deliveries on Friday, January 17, 2020. We have been subject to an I-9 audit by immigration authorities (DHS/ICE/INS) which has resulted in a notice of suspect documents. Although we require all workers to provide us with government specif...ied documentation evidencing their employment eligibility, a number of our employees have been, without our knowledge, determined to be unauthorized workers. The discovery of a large number of unauthorized workers has so disrupted operations we have had no choice but to close. Although closing is a heart-felt loss, it has been an incredible journey filled with laughter and tears. We have had the pleasure of being part of a community we love and have had the honor of being a part of birthdays, graduations, yacht races and weddings through our breads, pastries and sandwiches. We’ve given scone bites to children and have had the joy of watching them grow up and bring in their children for scone bites. We have shared stories and made dear friends and we have lost dear friends. Please know that we thank and appreciate and will miss each and every one of you. And always remember .. eat more bread.