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Bakery Day 13: Croissants




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I bet you were thinking I forgot about today’s post. Nope, just finished a 13 hour shift and took a shower, did some laundry, fed the doggie and gata, and now I am talking to you, yes you!!

There are many lessons to learn with owning a business and its clear, you will not find the answers in text books, or on YouTube or anywhere else except one place... your business. So I want to tell you about one new thing I learned this week.


But first, while I am having a subscribe to the blog problem, for those of you who really read my posts, you will find that in the blog I am going to start including some simple recipes. Not in every entry, but enough to hopefully make you wanna read more (www.tablespoonbakery.com/blog). Shameless as I am...

As you know, this week has been a long one, with ups and downs ... a key decision is to not be open Wednesday nights. But, I will use this time to make pastries and desserts for Thursday. I think in the two Wednesday’s we were open we got three customers ... I’m happy to see them, but it costs me more money to be open than I bring in. This Thursday was a great day for us and I know they will get better so I will use Wednesday evening as prep time. It’s nice because I will leave the bakery around 1 or 2 and go home and refresh then return with a clear head and work for a few hours and the rest for the 5am start.

It’s not easy to run a business with your love being the person you work with every day. We are still working hard to find a balance and I know in time it will be there ... but it’s a good lesson for me because Sandra has really been strong and really made the rough edges smooth so it’s something to really give attention to.

And croissants ... holy shiitake Batman... they turned out amazing ... I made a few mistakes and I have 9,984 more to go before I’m an expert but I see that number as attainable ... I also got good feedback from a few people today which helps me a lot.. really! And, out of the 16 I made, I gave two away, there is one on display, and 13 were sold... not bad!!! Tonight I made a full batch which I think is roughly 25. And they are slightly bigger. I had some small problems with the butter and dough but I think I solved it ok... let’s see tomorrow.

So kids, remember, it’s the tough times that either make us run away, or fight harder... we have some amazing new people in our lives that come in to the bakery and this really makes me the happiest ... it’s amazing to see smiling faces all the time, and quite contagious ...







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