Gendusa John Bakery

By the end of that decade, baker John Gendusa and restauranteurs Bennie and Clovis Martin were tasked with finding an economical way to make a sandwich to feed striking streetcar workers. Inspired by his youth in Sicily, John Gendusa produced a long, uniform loaf of bread for the Martin Bros. From this loaf the Poor Boy sandwich was born.

We have been producing our famous Poor Boy Bread ever since. Gendusa Bakery has now been a family-run business for four generations. It is one of the few surviving traditional bread bakeries still operating in the city. Our po-boys, pistolettes, and muffuletta loaves are still baked using our founder's original formula.