The Baker's Trade : A Recipe for Creating the Successful Small Bakery

Schat, Zachary Y

ISBN 10: 0963937162 / ISBN 13: 9780963937162

Published by Acton Circle, Ukiah, CA, USA, 1998

About this Item

275pp. Laminated pictorial light card covers. In as new condition throughout. 4to. A look at the busy routine and daily life of a successful neighbourhood bakery. Recipes. Black and white illustrations.

Seller Inventory # 009172

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Baker's Trade : A Recipe for Creating the Successful Small Bakery
• Publisher: Acton Circle, Ukiah, CA, USA
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0963937162
• ISBN 13: 9780963937162
• Binding: Softcover
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: N/A
• Seller catalogs:
  • Food, Cooking and Household Management

About this title

Synopsis

This is the first book ever to explain everything needed to work through the thicket of rules, procedures, and tasks for starting and running a prosperous retail or wholesale bakery.

It gets going with "a day at the bakery," then takes up baking and business skills, start-up costs, sources of financing, legal and tax matters, local planning and heatlh regulations, retail and kitchen layout and design, adding a cafe or deli, getting supplies at the best prices, the product list, pricing and costs, marketing and public relations, maintenance and clean-up, employees, expansion and diversification, common business problems, and the business plan.

Checklists, profiles of successful bakeries, plus an appendix of further reading, baking/culinary schools, professional associations, a model personnel manual, and a list of software supplement the text.

About the Author

Zachary Schat is a fifth-generation baker. After graduating from the University of California he bought a struggling shop his father had recently acquired. In five years he tripled daily gross sales to $1,500; then he opened a branch across town. Besides his own start-up experience, he brings 150 years of his family's baking background to the book.