He said it’s “painful” to see anything bad happen to any of these original stores.Ĭlosure background: Sarah and Brian Berlin, the husband and wife duo who currently own the Prairie Village Great Harvest, are closing the store after nearly eight years. More than that, Ferretti said, it’s on what Great Harvest considers to be an iconic list of stores - alongside the original location and the first franchisees in Washington state. The Great Harvest franchise serving the Kansas City area that is now in Prairie Village is in the single digits, he said. The history: Ferretti told the Post that Great Harvest, which opened its first bakery in Great Falls, Montana, in 1976, numbers its stores based on the order of their opening.
Mike Ferretti, chief executive officer and chairman of the Dillon, Montana-based corporation, which claims more than 200 independently owned and operated franchises across the U.S., says there’s a particular vested interest in the Prairie Village store. is closing its Prairie Village doors on May 11, but that may not be the end of the story for the bakery, which has been in operation for roughly four decades.
