Our menu has expanded to include other items such as pretzel sandwiches, custom ordered party pretzels, and specialty dips and mustards. We still produce the traditional German twisted pretzel but the pretzel stick has become the preference of our customers. Gus Jr, David, and Gus III continue to work with their team of bakers six days a week to provide St. Gus III joined the business in 2008 and has contributed new ideas to the family tradition. Gus Jr, with the help of his brother, David, worked to expand the business from the small row house with a gangway entrance to the retail facility customers are able to visit today. Since that time Gus’ Pretzel Shop has become a St. purchased the business from his father in 1980. Stick pretzels were made to be peek out of the top of the bag allowing customers to see the salty treat. Peddlers were unable to show off twist pretzels hidden in the brown bag. It was during this time the stick pretzel became popular in St. Their customers were mainly peddlers who sold the pretzels on street corners. and Marcella doing all of the work and their seven children pitching in after school, on weekends and holidays. In Gus Sr.’s time, the pretzel shop was a mom and pop operation-with Sr. married Ramsperger’s daughter, Marcella, he saw potential in the pretzel business and purchased the bakery in 1952, officially naming the business Gus’ Pretzel Shop. Ramsperger baked pretzels in his basement and sold them in school yards. Frank Ramsperger, a riveter by trade, started baking pretzels to support his family after he was injured at work. Louis’s strong German heritage, pretzel bakeries dotted the landscape in the early 1900s. Louis destination for both locals and visitors. Visitors are able to view the entire pretzel production process through the viewing area at various times throughout the day and takeout orders are quickly filled at the retail counter. and David, are preparing the fourth-generation, Gus III, to carry on the same tradition. Third-generation pretzel twisters, Gus Jr. Gus’ Pretzel Shop is a family-owned business that has been using the same recipe and method of making pretzels, including twisting each pretzel by hand, since the business started in 1920. Louis’s south side, in the shadows of the world-famous Anheuser-Busch Brewery. Gus’ Pretzel Shop is located in the Benton Park neighborhood on St.
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