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Leo's, A Tradition For More Than Sixty Years

It all began more than 60 years ago in the 1940’s. The Balta brothers had a passion for pies. They built a state-of-the-art building, 7000 square feet, on Atlantic Avenue and began their dream, a pie factory.

Every pie was made from scratch as everything was done back in the 40’s and the pies were excellent. People found out fast about these delicious pies and sales began to skyrocket.

The Balta Pie Company brought their pies to just about every restaurant in town. As sales grew, two of Leo’s brothers moved the Balta Pie Company to a much larger facility in Henrietta and began manufacturing the pies and selling them unbaked and frozen to larger customers like supermarket chains. This business was eventually sold to General Mills who still operate it today and sell pies around the country.

Leo stayed on Atlantic Avenue where he opened a retail store and continued to sell his delicious fully baked pies to local restaurants and stores. Leo made mouthwatering brownies, delicious chocolate cakes and donuts and sold them to countless East High School students who still talk about their memories today.

At the same time,  just five buildings down the street, another entrepreneur had the same idea of opening a bakery to test the flour being processed at the Daisy Flour Mill. The flour worked perfect and produced tender flaky cookies which were then sold at the retail store on Atlantic Ave. They appropriately named the bakery “Elite Baking Company”. The two bakeries coexisted for more than 50 years, Leos selling pies, cakes and pastries and Elite selling cookies to customers from all over Rochester .

In 2004 Pat and Kathy Bernunzio, the current owners of Leos Bakery, bought the Elite Baking Company and moved both businesses to a brand new facility in East Rochester.

The rest is history.
"There's A Lot To Like At Leos"