Dave's Bakery and Deli

Dave’s Bakery and Deli is a neighborhood bakery and sandwich shop at 214 W Maple Ave on Independence Square, in continuous operation since 2002 and known for fresh-baked pastries, deli sandwiches, and a classic counter-service atmosphere.¹

Description

Dave’s Bakery and Deli is a long-running bakery and sandwich counter at 214 W Maple Ave, steps from Independence Square. Founded in 2002, it operates as a friendly, one-of-a-kind neighborhood spot with classic diner-style décor — a nostalgic menu board, comfortable seating, and a glass display case showcasing freshly baked pastries.² The bakery serves breakfast and lunch Tuesday through Saturday, 7am to 3pm.³

The menu centers on scratch-baked goods and deli fare. Its combination of in-house baking and sandwich-counter service makes it one of the Square’s distinctive daytime destinations and a longtime anchor of the immediate neighborhood around West Maple Avenue.

Ownership and history

Ownership

Period	Owner / Operator	Notes
2002 → present	Lee family (owner-operated)	BBB records business start date October 18, 2002; Jin Lee listed as current owner.1

Owner background

The bakery has been Lee-family operated since its 2002 founding. BBB filings list Jin Lee as the current owner; Peter Lee appears in earlier third-party listings as an associated operator, suggesting a family business with possible ownership transition or shared roles over the more than two-decade run.¹² The Lee family’s specific hometown background and Independence/KC roots were not established in available sources at time of compilation.

With 23+ years of continuous operation on Independence Square, Dave’s Bakery and Deli has an established local-owner-operated tenure regardless of generational transition within the family.

Menu

Last verified: 2026-08-26 · Source: first-party surfaces exhausted — no operator domain exists; Independence Square’s own directory names Facebook as the “Business Website”; Toast/Square/Clover/Menufy/ChowNow storefronts for this address are 404 or empty shells · URL(s): https://www.facebook.com/DavesBakeryDeli/ · https://indepsquare.com/businesses/daves-bakery-deli/ · https://visitindependence.com/food-drink/bakeries/ · Confidence: High that no first-party priced menu is published anywhere online · menu_status: unavailable

menu_status: unavailable, not na — Dave’s plainly sells bakery and deli food, so “no menu applies” would be false. The accurate statement is that the menu lives on the in-store board (and possibly as Facebook photo posts) and has never been published to a retrievable first-party surface. Same posture as big-daddys-donuts and the-dennison-wine-bar.

Surfaces checked, and the ceiling

• Own domain — none. DNS NXDOMAIN on davesbakeryanddeli.com, davesbakerydeli.com, daves-bakery.com, davesbakeryindependence.com, davesbakerykc.com, davesbakery.net / .org / .biz / .co / .shop, and www.davesbakery.com. davesbakery.com has Internet Archive captures from 2009, but they are a parked/unrelated 1 KB page with no Independence, Maple, or Missouri content — not this business, and not a dead first-party site to recover.⁴
• Independence Square Association listing — live 2026-08-26. Title “Dave’s Bakery & Deli”; the only outbound “Business Website” is Facebook (facebook.com/DavesBakeryDeli/). No menu, no own domain, no ordering link.⁵
• Visit Independence bakeries page — names Dave’s as serving lunch and freshly baked goods (caramel pecan roll, cookies) with no prices and no menu link. The page’s own listing grid returned “No results were found.”⁶
• Ordering platforms — Square Online slugs (davesbakery.square.site, davesbakerydeli.square.site, davesbakeryindependence.square.site, davesbakeryanddeli.square.site, daves-bakery-and-deli.square.site) all HTTP 404. Toast: toasttab.com/local/order/daves-bakery-and-deli-214-w-maple-ave-independence 404 (“The page you were looking for does not exist”); toasttab.com/daves-bakery-and-deli is a Toast marketing 404, not a storefront. Clover clover.com/online-ordering/daves-bakery-and-deli is an empty shell (cart $0.00, no business name, no address, no items). Menufy davesbakery.menufy.com is the generic Menufy marketplace homepage (“Hungry? Order Food Online!”), not this bakery. ChowNow ordering.chownow.com/daves-bakery-and-deli 404.
• Facebook — the shop’s only official channel, and the likeliest place a posted menu-board photo exists (a 2023 “updated menu” post is mirrored on third-party Facebook scrapers). Firecrawl refuses/hangs on facebook.com/DavesBakeryDeli/; Wayback CDX for that URL returns only 302 redirects, no readable captures. Not used for prices.
• Aggregators (SinglePlatform, Yelp menu, Zmenu, menuweb.menu, SageMenu) — carry item lists and some prices for 214 W Maple Ave. All excluded under the first-party-only pricing rule. SinglePlatform is unclaimed (“claim this menu”). Do not import them.

Ceiling — what would actually resolve this. Remote text research is closed. Three routes remain, all requiring a human or an authenticated session: (1) photograph the in-store menu board at 214 W Maple Ave; (2) call the shop (816-461-0756) and transcribe the board; (3) a logged-in pass over the Facebook page’s photo album for a posted price list. Do not re-spend a search pass.

What the shop is known to sell (tourism-sourced, unpriced — not a menu)

Presented as prose rather than a priced item list, because no first-party menu was recovered. Every price is ****.

• Lunch and freshly baked goods; Visit Independence calls out a gooey caramel pecan roll with coffee, and freshly baked cookies.⁶
• Bakery case and made-to-order deli sandwiches on homemade bread, per the existing listing record.³²

No other item name, description, or price may be added to this page from an aggregator, a review body, or inference from a photograph caption.

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Links

• Dave’s Bakery & Deli on Facebook — only official web presence
• Independence Square Association listing — names Facebook as the business website
• Visit Independence — Bakeries

Sources

• Status verified active 2026-06-23 via Yelp — Dave’s Bakery & Deli (updated March 2026) and a first-hand April 2026 visit review (accessed 2026-06-23). Listing active with hours Tue–Sat 7am–3pm; an April 2026 visitor review describes a recent in-person visit (food/service), confirming the bakery is operating. The “Closed” indicator seen in some aggregator snippets reflects Yelp’s daily open/closed-now status, not a permanent closure. Still listed on Independence Square businesses directory.

Disputes

None at this time.

Footnotes

1. Better Business Bureau — Dave’s Bakery and Deli profile — Asserts: business start date 10/18/2002; Jin Lee, Owner; LLC. ↩ ↩² ↩³

2. Superpages — Dave’s Bakery and Deli — Asserts: Peter Lee as associated operator; friendly, one-of-a-kind neighborhood bakery and sandwich shop description. ↩ ↩² ↩³

3. Yelp — Dave’s Bakery and Deli (updated March 2026) — Asserts: 214 W Maple Ave, Independence, MO 64050; hours Tue–Sat 7am–3pm; active listing. ↩ ↩²

4. Internet Archive CDX for candidate domains (queried 2026-08-26). davesbakeryanddeli.com, daves-bakery.com, davesbakeryindependence.com — zero captures. davesbakery.com earliest capture 2009-07-24 () is a ~1 KB parked page with no Independence / Maple / Missouri content — not this business. Facebook facebook.com/DavesBakeryDeli/ CDX returns only 302 redirects, no readable captures. No dead first-party site to recover. ↩

5. Independence Square Association — Dave’s Bakery & Deli business directory page (retrieved 2026-08-26; curl 403, Firecrawl 200) — asserts: listing titled Dave’s Bakery & Deli; the only outbound “Business Website” is facebook.com. No own domain, no menu, no ordering link. ↩

6. Visit Independence — Bakeries (retrieved 2026-08-26) — asserts: “Dave’s Bakery & Deli serves lunch and freshly baked goods”; names a gooey caramel pecan roll and freshly baked cookies; no prices, no menu URL. The page’s filtered listing grid returned “No results were found.” ↩ ↩²