Duke Bakery - Irvine

We got a ham and egg sandwich, a garlic bread and a chocolate bread. Didn’t have pictures of the other two. Pretty fresh bread and good quality.

The quality, pricing, and variety are all quite good. However, I was disappointed that they expected a tip during the billing process.

If you're in search of a bakery with a wide range of choices, Duke Bakery is the ideal place for you. With an incredible selection that spans from sweet to savory, it can be quite difficult to choose just one item! Everything is exceptionally fresh and packed with flavor. I highly recommend giving this bakery a try; you won't be disappointed!

The breads are so tasty, softer and fresh. Especially like the cheese one.

When we visit a new area, we try to check out a new bakery and this was such a win except for the really strange experience we had inside the store.We came on 4/6 around 1pm. There was a customer ahead of us who was just about to leave and there was a lady with a clipboard walking around the inside being really rude towards the staff member. It was EXTREMELY uncomfortable to the point where I did not even see everything because I felt unwelcome and I just wanted to get out of there as soon as I could. She was pointing out all the things she was doing wrong in a very demeaning way in front of us which in my opinion is so unprofessional. The staff member just took it and said Ok I'm sorry. Ok I'll fix next time sorry. She made this lady start moving pastries around as we were browsing??? I understand if things were not up to some standard but it could have waited until the customers left the very tiny store. We had to keep switching sides because she was pointing at things and making the staff member move things as we were trying to pick out pastries.I just grabbed what I could on first glance and then just tried to get out of the way. Even when we were standing by the cash register this lady was STILL telling the staff to move things around to the point where this lady was now running with trays to move large amounts of pastries. As soon as she was done carrying this huge tray of pastries she quickly came to the cashier and was very polite and kind. Thankfully the quality of the pastries was GREAT. We enjoyed the Duke sandwich, French hotdog and the Mango QQ as soon as we left and have the Taro pastry and Blueberry pastry to try when we get home. We definitely would come back to this chain, but something needs to be done about the rude lady ordering the staff around. It really left a bad taste in my mouth and I almost said something to her because her tone and attitude was so unprofessional and degrading. I felt so bad for the staff. No one deserves to be spoken to that way. Do better.