Dinner Break!!! Bakers Square - Blaine, MN
Who wants pie? Well, you’re too late to get any here… This restaurant is closed, and would torn down less than a year after I took this picture. But here it was, when it was still open, back in September 2012. Not very busy for a Sunday morning, usually one of the peak times for family restaurants. (Special thanks to the Googles for these Poppin' Fresh Pies images.) Quickest of history lessons: The genesis of Baker’s Square began as Mrs. C's, in Des Moines, Iowa, way back in 1969. Shortly after the restaurant/bakery opened, Mrs. C’s was purchased by Pillsbury and renamed Poppin' Fresh Pies, with locations poppin’ up throughout the midwest. VICORP (who owned the chain of Village Inn restaurants) bought the Poppin' Fresh Pies franchise from Pillsbury in 1983, and renamed them Baker's Square. I remember seeing various advertising for Poppin' Fresh Pies on TV as a kid... The Blaine, MN, Baker's Square closed in 2020, at some point between July and October. Onlin...