Hospitality group acquires part of Tampa bakery

Gulf Coast Sourdough is officially splitting its starter.

Bavaro Hospitality, the parent company of Bavaro's Pizza Napoletana & Pastaria, is acquiring the wholesale portion of the business.

Gulf Coast Sourdough consists of Gulf Coast Sandwich House — a storefront in the Seminole Heights neighborhood of Tampa — and a baking facility in Sulphur Springs it utilizes for its wholesale operation, where it makes bread and pizza dough for over 40 area restaurants, groceries and farmers' markets.