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I like the idea of a great home based bakery which caters to specific pastry needs.
When we visited puerto Rico last year we stayed at a vacation rental..where a neighbour supplied desserts to San Juan hotels... Her pastries were out of the world...
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I like the idea of a great home based bakery which caters to specific pastry needs.
When we visited puerto Rico last year we stayed at a vacation rental..where a neighbour supplied desserts to San Juan hotels... Her pastries were out of the world...
Would you, or anyone else patronize such a business enough to support the vitality of said business? You see way too many locally owned places fail becuse they just don't get the traffic that the "big box" corporate places do because of they have the dollars and the smaller guys don't.
You hear it so often...."Darn Manzettis closed, shame, I liked that place" (using this as an example and not speaking to you directly). How many times did you pass Manzetti's to get the unlimited soup and salad at Olive Garden? "Darn, City Range closed, shame I liked that place...How many times did you pass City Range to go wait in the crazy line at the Outback for crappy steak?
You make a very valid point. I am often asked to open a bakery. Chances are that it would not succeed because of not enough traffic to keep my product fresh. It has a short shelf life because I do not shower it with preservatives to keep it fresh indefinately. People lead such busy lives, that they might not have time to go out of their way for dessert. I was thinking about pairing up with a restaurant and selling whole cheesecakes. The clientele already know and love my desserts but how do I focus on marketing homemade N.Y. cheesecake to others. This is where computer knowledge comes in handy, which I have VERY LITTLE of. I can make a mean cheesecake, but what's a domain?
Just love great pastries and cheesecake- but just the plain, baked sort that's quite solid. My favorite had sultanas and marsala in it.
We have been disapointed with croissants we've bought from most places, except 2 weeks ago when I bought 6 wholegrain from BJs-they were awesome.
We love real bakery bread and the only loaves I buy are the 5 grain bakery loaves from Food Lion-when they have them available.
Have had some decent baguettes, but they are so expensive. In the UK it would only be maybe $1 for a nice long baguette and in France you're talking about less than that.
We sometimes go to a Hispanic bakervery in Huntersville and their pastries are good and very cheap.
I would frequent a bakery for my bread, croissants etc, but wouldn't be prepared to pay $5 for a loaf or $3 for a baguette on a regular basis. I don't understand why the bread is so expensive compared to the pastries.
I remember years ago when there weren't any huge grocery stores, my Mother used to go to the local bakery on Thursday and put in an order for her bread and cakes for the weekend otherwise they were sold out by 10am on Saturday.
Some sort of system like this might work for starting up a bakery, when items have a very short shelf life.
Other thing would be to offer delivery?
Oh, and please, if anyones thinking of doing it, don't forget to do some savoury items as well as sweet. I adore quiches and savoury vol au vents!
I think maybe many people have the same attitude to bread and pastries as they do to coffee. They like them, but they aren't really connoisseurs (I mean look at how popular Starbucks is) and therefore won't go out of their way for really good stuff.
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