You can operate a Wholesale Bakery on a small scale.
If you do not want to invest into a full scale operation, you may still be able to operate locally, providing local coffee shops, gas stations, and coffee huts with some great baked goods.
For your Bakery, decide first what types of products you will offer. Since we are talking about a small scale operation, I would just stick with one or two really good , marketable products.
You will need a place to bake. Do not get discouraged in this area. You just have to be creative. Take a look around you. If you have a VFW hall or Community Center, even your local church, check rates for renting their kitchen.
You can also use one of the commercial kitchens that are available for rent by the hour or day.
These kitchens have everything you need equipment-wise to produce your product. They are popping up all over. Check your local University-many have extensions that provide information for Food Business Entreprenuers.
Now I am going to talk about using your own home kitchen to bake. Your home kitchen is most likely very small. Consider this: you can produce in quantity from a commercial kitchen in half the time it takes in your own kitchen.
This may not seem like much, but you have to remember that your time is tied into the expenses. It only makes sense to organize your materials get a game plan, go to the rental kitchen and get it done.
Your home oven most likely produces unpredictable results which can lead to waste and end up costing you more in time and money.
There are so many other sources available- all you do is tie the cost of the rental into your product final cost.
If you have a recipe, I would definitely try it out on friends and family first (in this case, use your own kitchen).
Then turn that recipe into a commercial recipe-please don't spend countless hours measuring 27 cups of flour or 23 3/4 teaspoons of cumin when scaling your recipe.
Use weights instead of the cup measurements. Your recipe will be more consistent and you will spend less time in the rental kitchen- which means more profit.
Also, as with any business you start, take a few business courses at your local community college. Some are offered after hours and are really only 1 or two week clases. Look for one that fits your schedule. You will be happy that you did.
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