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Our story

If something doesn’t exist, create it.

If the road doesn’t exist, build it.

Two members of the BreadKone team at a Global Golden Spark presentation, behind a table of bagged BreadKones and cone molds

  1. A question in Prague

    The idea came on a trip to Prague. Eleftherios Spartalis was there with a small family business from Rhodes, Greece, learning to make chimney cake, the sweet rolled pastry sold all over the city. One question stayed with him: “This is the sweet one. Where’s the savory one?” Nobody had made it. So they set out to, and shaped it as a cone so the filling stays put and you can eat it with one hand.

  2. 2017

    A recipe from 1900

    Back in Rhodes, they built the cone on a family dough recipe from the island of Kastellorizo that dates back to 1900. After many rounds of testing, they found that the cone could hold food from any kitchen in the world. The first shop opened in Rhodes in 2017.

  3. 2018

    Two engineers and a bold decision

    Eleftherios and Pantazis Choulis, two engineers from Rhodes, left their established careers to follow the idea. In 2018 they moved to Athens, refined the recipe with one of Greece’s largest flour mills, and opened two shops. Press coverage and national TV appearances followed within weeks.

  4. 2022

    A machine that didn’t exist

    To bring the cone to cafés, restaurants, and supermarkets, they needed a machine that could shape dough into cones at industrial scale. No such machine existed anywhere in the world, so they designed one themselves during the pandemic. It was finished in 2022, has a patent granted in Greece, and has an international patent application in progress.

  5. December 2022

    From Rhodes to New York

    An American visitor tried the cone in Athens and invited the founders to bring it to the United States. In December 2022 they founded Global Golden Spark Inc. in Farmingdale, Long Island, where the cones are baked today. BreadKone® is now served in school cafeterias, stadiums, theme parks, resorts, restaurants, and supermarkets from coast to coast. CookieKone®, the world’s first industrially produced cookie cone, is made with the same technology.

  6. What’s next

    The dream goes on

    We want the cone to become as familiar as the bagel or the croissant: something any kitchen can fill with what it already makes, with no extra wrapper ending up in the trash.