BAY SHORE, N.Y. (AP) — Charles Edward Entenmann, who helped flip his household’s New York-based bakery right into a nationwide model, died in Florida at age 92.
Entenmann died Feb. 24 in Hialeah, his son, Charles William Entenmann, instructed Newsday.
Charles E. Entenmann was a grandson of William Entenmann, a German immigrant who based a bakery in Brooklyn in 1898, delivering baked items door to door.
The enterprise moved to Bay Shore on Lengthy Island, and the founder’s son, William Entenmann Jr., took over. William Jr.’s spouse and three sons inherited the bakery after his dying in 1951.
In accordance with Newsday, Charles Entenmann centered on engineering and technical elements of Entenmann’s, whereas his brother Robert specialised in gross sales and his brother William focused on baking.
The brand new era of Entenmanns started delivering to supermarkets and pioneered the usage of “see-through” cake packing containers to lure customers.
Maybe finest recognized for its number of crumb desserts, it had a variety of things together with doughnuts, loaf desserts, cinnamon rolls, pastries and cookies. As a result of lots of its merchandise “fare higher nearer to house” — within the firm’s phrases –solely the doughnuts and Little Bites mini-muffins have been out there in California in recent times.
After increasing Entenmann’s nationally within the Nineteen Seventies, the household offered the enterprise to pharmaceutical firm Warner-Lambert. The model has been offered a number of instances since then and is now owned by Bimbo Bakeries USA.
Charles Entenmann, often known as Charlie, moved to Florida within the Eighties and based Biolife LLC, which created know-how to assist seal wounds, his son mentioned. He additionally supported and performed analysis on chilly fusion, and the household advised memorial donations to the New Power Basis, to which he was a big contributor.
“No one is aware of how he acquired so sensible. He by no means went to high school,” his son mentioned. “I don’t suppose he ever forgot something he learn.”
Whereas Entenmann’s desserts and pastries have tempted generations of Individuals to interrupt their diets, Charlie Entenmann was not among the many devotees, his son mentioned.
“I’m going to inform you one thing that’s been just about a secret, most of my life anyway,” his son instructed Newsday. “He didn’t eat Entenmann’s cake. … He simply wasn’t a dessert man.”