Bakery Management
Mobile business gets Web boost
With a business that's literally on the move, Lev Ekster finds real utility in social networking websites like Twitter. The recent law school graduate-turned-entrepenuer...
Recession-proof bread and rolls
Life in a recession isn't bad for everyone, according to Mintel, a global market research firm with its U.S. base in Chicago. The research firm reviewed...
Report ranks buying decisions
Shopper Report, a monthly consumer feedback report based on dialog with a national cross section of American shoppers, ranked factors affecting supermarket...
Modern Baking seeks 2009 retail bakery of the year
Do you have one of the best retail bakeries in the nation or would you like to nominate someone who does? If so, go to www.modern-baking.com to submit...
Clever partners
Unique partnerships are nothing new in the baking industry, but Charles Feder, owner of Rossmoor Pastries in Signal Hill, Calif., found one that helps...
Sweeten bakery sales with ancillary products
You already have customers craving your cakes and cookies, pining for your pies and drooling over your Danish. But a growing number of operators around...
Products at Work: Fit packaging to plus-sized cupcakes
As recently as 2006, cupcakes weren't even on the radar for advertising executive Jill Segal. But in August of that year, while waiting in her dentist's...
How to Spruce up your retail space
Be it a coat of paint, a new showcase, a total gutting or simply a gilding, a makeover can give a big lift to the way your bakery looks and the way your...
Bakers learn the latest in healthful baking
In a tough economy, bakers are looking for ways to offer what consumers want, and healthful foods continue to be a growing trend. Healthy Baking Seminar...
Does posting calories really fight obesity?
Some New York City restaurants were busted recently by a local TV station for posting incorrect calorie counts of some of their menu items. The city was...
Brookshire Grocery makes category management work
You're an in-store bakery director and your manager shoots an email requesting you to update your sales and gross margin forecasts for the next two reporting...
Communicate with Gen Y
When Rich Reinwald, owner of Reinwald's Bakery and president of the Retail Bakers of America, was in college, he consulted his advisor about careers....
Bakers flourish in small groups
Grass roots organizing is gaining steam among bakers. The baking industry has long been a hotbed of local or regional trade associations and other like-minded...
Culbertson wins regional ACF pastry competition
Ford Culbertson, executive pastry chef and co-owner of Rolf's Patisserie, Lincolnwood, Ill., received the American Culinary Federation (ACF) Central Region...
En-Ming Hsu been there, done that
Having been a team member, judge and coach in the World Cup of Pastry, this former world champion shares her unique perspective of having seen international...
