Retired NFL star Laurent Duvernay-Tardif purchases Montreal bakery
Former NFL guard Laurent Duvernay-Tardif’s post-football career has taken another interesting turn: the Super Bowl champion-turned-physician has purchased Montreal bakery Arhoma.
The company made the announcement on their Instagram page.
“After 19 years of nurturing and growing Arhoma, the time has come for us … to pass the torch,” the post read.
“We are pleased to announce that Arhoma will continue its journey under the stewardship of Laurent Duvernay-Tardif and Sasha Ghavami, shareholders of the Le Pain dans les Voiles group.”
The McGill alumnus and Super Bowl LIV champion with the Kansas City Chiefs might be more famous for his work as a physician after hanging up his cleats — he graduated from McGill University Faculty of Medicine in May 2018 and worked at a CHSLD during the COVID-19 pandemic — but the Mont-St-Hilaire native is no stranger to the bread business.
Last March, a fire tore through the pastry production facility of Le Pain dans les Voiles, the bakery chain owned by Duvernay-Tardif.
“Today is not a very happy day for Le Pain dans Les Voiles. Our pastry production facility, which made croissants for the entire group, went up in flames,” Duvernay-Tardif told his followers in a video at the time.
Le Pain dans Les Voiles was founded by his parents in 2009, and Duvernay-Tardif took over the business in 2021.
After finishing his university football career at McGill, his NFL career spanned 73 games across seven seasons with Chiefs and New York Jets from 2015-2022. He opted out of the 2020 pandemic season.
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