The wholesale-only bakery, founded by Swedish native Susanne Gahnstedt in 2021, moves four flavors of knotted buns through five Bay Area café accounts — no retail counter, no front-of-house overhead.

Susanne Gahnstedt launched FikaLove in 2021 at 500 Terry Francois Street in San Francisco's Mission Bay — a production kitchen, not a retail counter. The bakery is wholesale-only: four flavors of Swedish-style buns (cardamom, cinnamon, cardamom-chocolate, and walnut) baked in disposable to-go containers and distributed to partner cafés.

According to the SF Standard's July 10, 2026 report on the Bay Area's cardamom surge, FikaLove's buns move through Equator Coffee locations, The Coffee Berry on Lombard Street, and Le Sandwich in North Beach, with North Bay distribution at Småstad Coffee Roasters and Baked on the River. The Standard noted that customers at FikaLove-stocked cafés "sometimes turn around and leave if they're sold out."

Swedish native Gahnstedt developed the recipe from her grandmother's. She told the Standard she made them first for friends and family until word spread: "Eventually, everyone was telling me, 'You have to sell these.'" She came from the computer and marketing industry before launching the bakery.

The legal entity, FikaLove SF LLC, holds California Secretary of State registration under entity number 2019104, formed May 13, 2019 and currently listed as active in good standing — two years before the bakery's 2021 operational launch. San Francisco city business registration for the entity could not be independently confirmed in city records.

Five wholesale accounts across SF and the North Bay is a real footprint for a single-operator kitchen running no front-of-house overhead.