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How To Set Up A Bakery in the Philippines

First of a series.  Knowing how to bake. I need more than a page to explain the nitty gritty on setting up your own bakery, in fact, in the next few months I will be re-opening mine. So instead of lecturing you guys on what to do i will try my best to tell you my preparations for my bakery. Just to make it simple. Siempre, dapat marunong kang mag bake. In all my years of teaching baking, I started 2001), every month I get students who own bakeries but never bothered to take up baking. Just like that, they would set up a bakery by hiring a baker. Fine, as long as you can trust the baker right? Uh....wrong. That baker will not stay with you forever. Another downside is that 100% of the time, he owns the recipes your bakery is selling. You have no idea how much sugar the pandesal has, or how much egg yolks he uses in the Ensaimada so you can do proper inventory and food costing. Nada.  If he tells you he has a headache and doesn't feel like coming to work today, he doesn't work to