"This book is the best antidote imaginable to the recent bout of dot-com insanity. After a five-year national obsession with instant wealth and corporate celebrity, we can get back to the real business of figuring out how to satisfy the craving that exists everywhere for authentic community in business. Tom McMakin's spellbinding book should quickly become a moral compass for everyone on this journey in pursuit of meaningful work."

George Gendron
Editor-in-Chief, Inc. Magazine

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"I was completely wrong about this book. At first I thought it was about happy hippies baking bread, but then it turns out to be the most radical business book I've read in a while (how to grow slow; don't make money, make time; franchise liberty, etc.), and just when I thought I had figured it out, it morphed into the most wondrous exploration of why some of us find true happiness in work, and how you might too. It's solidly subversive, like good bread."

Kevin Kelly
Editor at Large, Wired Magazine
Author, Out of Control:  The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World  and  New rules for the New Economy:  10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World

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“What is so appealing about a fresh-baked loaf of bread?  The authentic way it looks?  The nourishing way it tastes?  The down-to-earth way it feels?  The inspirational way it smells?  You’ll find all of that and more in Tom McMakin’s book about the appeal of the Great Harvest Bread Company.  You won’t just read Bread and Butter, you’ll savor it!”

Alan Webber
Founding Editor, Fast Company

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 "The story of Great Harvest illustrates the power of holding a few principles firm and fixed, while leaving everything else open to the entrepreneurial imagination.  Preservation and change, freedom and responsibility, creativity and consistency -- all playing off each other to deliver impressive results." 

Jim Collins
Co-Author, Built To Last:  Successful Habits of Visionary Companies

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"An intriguing look at how the Great Harvest Bread Co. created a culture as delicious and healthy as their bread."

Dr. Stephen Covey
Co-Founder/ Co-Chairman, Franklin Covey Co. Author, Ten Habits of Highly Successful People and First Things First

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“The Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance for our age, only instead of working on our motorcycles and traveling cross country, Tom McMakin and the folks at Great Harvest are building a successful company.  Bread and Butter is about business, but more, it is a wonderful book about life.”

Ben Cohen
Co-founder, Ben & Jerry’s
Co-Author, Ben & Jerry’s Double Dip:  How to Run a Value-Led Business and Make Money, Too

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"More than a recipe for great bread or a great business, Bread and Butter is a recipe for an authentic, mindful and meaningful life.  Tom McMakin thoroughly explores the intersection between spiritual practice and business."

Roshi Bernie Glassman
Co-Author, Instructions to the Cook:  A Zen Masters Lessons for Living a Life That Matters

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“Tom McMakin kneads together the basic ingredients of good work and good business, sweetened by the stories of ordinary folk who enjoy baking delicious bread and who make a living bringing love to what they do.  

The Great Harvest Bread Company is, in my opinion, a most unique community of bread stores where personal and professional lives are celebrated, where the self is not sacrificed for a job but made whole, or holy, through work, and, where whole wheat bread stores become community sanctuaries!

Here lies a new way of doing business that energizes people toward personal and spiritual growth and sees business not as a machine for money-making but as a service both to the people in the company and the community in which they bake their delicious whole wheat bread.  Savor these stories; they will nourish your spirit and your zest for life!”

Matthew Fox
Author,The Reinvention of Work  and One River, Many Wells

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"Finally! A wholesome business book about how to make some dough while leading an enriched life. Straight from the hearth."

Fred DeLuca
CEO and co-founder of Subway International 

Author, Start Small Finish Big:  Fifteen Key Lessons to Start and Run Your Own Successful Business

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“For those who understand that work and spirit are connected, here's a guide.  As the COO of this lively, loose network of creative entrepreneurs, Tom takes us behind the counter to see what makes Great Harvest bread company a spiritual community in the truest sense.  It's a business book with soul.  And the soul of business is the business of the soul.”

Jim Amos
CEO, Mail Boxes, Etc.
Chairman, International Franchise Association

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"Tom McMakin takes us on a highly personal tour of a franchisor that succeeds by breaking all the rules. In isolation, each of Great Harvest's strategic choices may seem unconventional, even nutty, but together they form a coherent, fascinating whole.  McMakin's account of the company's strategy is eye-opening."

Jan Rivkin
Assistant Professor Harvard Business School

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“Bread and Butter is a story of people who understand that what we do in business is not work, it is life--and not to be wasted; people who understand that life is a gift bearing a gift which is the art of giving; people who understand that when organizations free people to become themselves and express it in their work, profit becomes a barking dog begging to be let in.  Written with beautiful candor, from the heart as well as the head, this is a book which no one should miss.”

Dee Hock
Founder and CEO Emeritus, VISA
Author, Birth of The Chaordic Age.

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“For those who long to connect work and spirit, here's a guide. As the COO of this lively, loose network of creative entrepreneurs, McMakin takes us behind the counter to see what makes Great Harvest bread company a spiritual community in the truest sense. It's a business book with soul. And the honesty of his own quest makes it sing!

Marjory Zoet Bankson
President, Faith@Work
Author, Call to the Soul

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 “What an extraordinary book!  Sit down in front of a fire, take you shoes off, perhaps a glass of wine, and dig in.  Tom McMakin is a great storyteller and more.  He touches the very essence of what an exceptional business can become – no matter what it sells, no where it does business, no matter how much or how little the owner and the people know about the business.  As McMakin demonstrates so eloquently and lovingly, a small business is a poem, it’s a love story, it’s a miraculous presence in which people find what it means to be human.  It’ s an act of grace.  Congratulations to Tom and to all the folks at Great Harvest Bread Co..  You are inspiration to us all!!”

Michael Gerber
Author The E-Myth Revisited

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