FARMINGTON – Owners of The Homestead bakery and restaurant on Broadway will eliminate weekday breakfast hours after 27 years, to concentrate on their lunch, dinner and weekend brunches beginning Monday, Sept. 3.

Dotty and Allen Danforth of Farmington also plan to close The Homestead on Mondays.

“Allen and I are getting older,” Dottie Danforth said Wednesday. “We need to cut back a little bit. We are both at retirement age and our children have other things to do.”

There also are many other opportunities in the area to get breakfast, she said.

The building, business and the works are for sale, she said. The asking price is $650,000.

Danforth, a former Strong school teacher, started the business out of her home on Town Farm Road in 1980, thus the name The Homestead, she said.

Danforth baked goodies, including pastries, breads and pies to deliver to local businesses and for people coming to the house. The business grew to selling food at high school football games and Titcomb Ski Slope before moving the family business downtown in 1983.

Allen Danforth worked at International Paper in Jay for 19 years before he left to help at the growing bakery and restaurant.

It opened as a bakery with 16 seats, serving coffee, morning pastries and bread, and moved twice as it expanded its menu offerings and then became a full-service restaurant at its current location, which now seats more than 100 people.

Over the past four years, the family has invested in extensive renovations, including adding a lounge and a full bar, and that’s where the focus will be.

Danforth and her husband took some time off from the business to operate the Village Inn in Belfast for six years. Their son Erick Danforth and his wife, Kim, bought the business and continued on the family tradition before the elder couple bought it back several years ago.

With the elimination of early morning hours during weekdays, the Farmington Rotary Club and the Downtown Business and Professional Association in Farmington are looking for new meeting places, Danforth said.

“We’ll continue to accommodate them until they find a new place,” she said.

The restaurant’s new hours start in September when it will be opening at 11 a.m. on weekdays and 8 a.m. on weekends.

“While weekday breakfast will no longer be served the famous Saturday and Sunday brunch will be continued and expanded,” Danforth said.