It’s all about family at this Rockville Centre bakery
“As a little kid, I used to go down and make boxes with my grandmother,” said Lisa Acerno, the third-generation owner of Front Street Bakery, which celebrates 80 years in business across from Rockville Centre’s LIRR station this year. Acerno’s parents, John Wohlfarth Jr. and Arlene Wohlfarth, never pushed her or her brother to work in the family baking business, but the siblings “always had a hand in it. I went to secretarial school. I worked in the city for a year, but I always would work at the bakery on a Saturday, helping my mother out.”
The Rockville Centre native nods to her grandparents Julius “John” Wohlfarth Sr. and Freida Kloepfer for the bakery’s humble beginnings, and now looks to the fourth generation — her son, Robert Acerno, and nephew Jeffrey “J.J.” Wohlfarth Jr., named for Acerno’s brother, who died last year after a battle with pancreatic cancer — for its future.
With its Danish crumb and seven layer cakes that patrons clamor for on Saturdays to the famous pink dot cookies, Acerno says she and her brother brought the shop “to the next level.” They started serving coffee, making 3D and fondant cakes, and they offered more than “just pink dot” cookies for both special occasions and variety — plus the bonus of a free dot cookie to every child visiting the store.
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