"Father's Office restaurateur Sang Yoon reprised the 1931-founded bakery in late 2024, building upon the Helms family's legacy with new, bountiful pastry cases, ready-made food stations, bouquets of baguettes, freshly roasted coffee and an ample marketplace in the original Culver City complex still bearing the Helms name. But late last week he took to social media to announce the surprising closure, and thousands of responses poured in."
""It's like playing poker: Do you think you're holding a winning hand and you're gonna survive, or do you think you're gonna get taken out?" "You're trying to weigh everything, and it certainly was not an easy decision. It's awful. We have a small but really great staff, and we're really horrified that this has to happen now, but you get to a place where you're not able to go further.""
Sang Yoon reopened Helms Bakery, founded in 1931, at the original Culver City complex in late 2024, offering pastries, ready-made food stations, baguettes, roasted coffee and a marketplace. The bakery will close after 13 months of operation because sales were insufficient and inconsistent despite days with hundreds of customers. The closure follows a broader year of high-profile Los Angeles restaurant shutdowns. Yoon maintained Father's Office will remain open in the complex, though a sibling location was closed earlier in the year. Yoon cited a particularly difficult 2025 start for the city, including destructive January fires, as part of the challenging business climate.
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