Built for partnership.
Made for Nashville.

Our Story

Sift was built to support Nashville’s hospitality community.

While the city is home to incredible coffee shops, restaurants, hotels, and gathering places, there have historically been few bakeries built specifically to support them. From day one, Sift was designed around three connected pillars—wholesale, catering, and a neighborhood bake shop—with one goal: to help hospitality businesses create memorable experiences through exceptional baking.

That vision grew from an unexpected conversation.

Before Sift, the bakery program for Dose Coffee operated out of three separate cafés. As the business grew, it became clear that bringing everything together under one roof would create a stronger team, more consistent quality, and the opportunity to build the kind of bakery Nashville was missing.

Fresh off the opening of Dose Old Hickory Village, founder Keith Steunebrink found himself thinking about what came next. As he talked about investing in a dedicated production bakery, Jami Frazier, Director of Bakery at Dose, offered a simple response:

“Why don’t you invest in me instead?”

The name Sift had existed for years, but that conversation transformed it into a real business. Rather than investing in another bakery, Keith chose to invest in the person who could build it.

Today, Sift partners with coffee shops, restaurants, businesses, and families across Middle Tennessee. Our retail bake shop keeps us connected to our community, while our wholesale and catering programs allow us to support hundreds of guests every day through the businesses we serve.

Our vision is simple:

To become the bakery partner every hospitality business hopes to have.