The long-standing Lehm Toshia chain, which includes a factory in Ram Park, will close permanently at the end of December, Israel Hayom has learned.
This is one of the first chains that sold special breads in Israel, which was established in 1986 in Tel Aviv, today the chain includes 26 branches, some of which will close and some of which will continue to operate under a different name.
The network states that this is a planned move and that it has nothing to do with an economic crisis.
The network will close in an orderly manner, without debts on December 31st.
The Toshia bread chain is a chain that specializes in European-style baking, when it offers breads made from natural ingredients, where the baking is done every night.
Yuval Doron, the owner of the Lehem Toshiya chain, confirmed the details and told Israel today, "Indeed, we are closing the chain. I am at an advanced retirement age and I have no son to follow. We were unable to sell the business. What could I do to work until the age of 80? We will close the bakery at the end of December Then the bakery will no longer deliver goods. Some branches will close and some may work with another bakery."
"Closes in an orderly manner, we already knew at the beginning of the year - we have no debts"
Doron refuses to be sentimental about the business he founded and explains that he had no choice.
At the same time, he wants to clarify that the business was closed in an orderly manner.
"I am closing in an orderly manner. We have no lawsuits and no debts. This is not a hasty closing. We have known about it for a year. As mentioned, we leave no debt or anything, as we never had any debts. We have 26 branches now, when At the peak there were 43 branches."
To the question of whether Corona had anything to do with the decision, he answered "Absolutely not. During Corona we sold a lot because people sat at home and ate bread. We had two very good years during Corona. You have to understand that this was a business with many employees and we did not have many employees in the bakery. In addition, it is a business that works at night and that is a story Today, bakeries work automatically. They freeze the bread, bring it frozen to the stores and then thaw the bread. We work at night until morning and bring the bread to Ari. People don't want to work and don't want to work at night.
"This is a global trend."
The price of bread has become more expensive (illustration), photo: Dodo Greenspan
"There were foreign workers and they sent them home. We don't work with minorities because working with minorities at night is a problem. Bottom line, there were no workers and we barely hired until now. It should be noted that none of the bakeries have any workers. Now if there are, they are personnel workers or Minorities and Ukrainians. People don't want to work at night, it's hard and I understand that."
Doron says that this is a global trend.
"Bakeries are closing all over the world. Everything is being automated and frozen. In Germany, three bakeries a day are closing, there is endless equipment. In America and Europe there are only automatic bakeries. In France, the bakeries are guarded by force because of the baguette."
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