Homestead Bakeshop - Fort Macleod

Over the last 7 years I have been in the culinary world. My first dreams were of baking, I would spend hours looking at a baking recipe books and spent even more time baking for my mom. I knew I loved making food, so I started working in Moxies restaurant when I was young to get some experience. Here I learned the basics of cooking, how to manage people and work together as a team. I worked there for 3.5 years when I decided I wanted to pursue a baking career. I enrolled in SAIT baking and Pastry Arts 2013, and it has been an amazing journey since. With all the inspiring talented chefs at SAIT I learned to love baking like I'd never before. In school I took a course for starting your own business and here I learned the basics of food cost, labor cost, and other variables to run a business. For my internship I worked at a fine dining winery in Kelowna, which I learned the hands on pastry restaurant world. After that I took a job at a Corbeaux Bakery in Calgary where I learned pastry skills from a talented chef from France. I then moved to Lethbridge and worked at a bakery where I managed the pastries and cakes side of things. Owning my own bakery has always been in the back of my head, so any placed I have worked; I observed the business side of things and learn from their mistakes. I am confident in owning a business with Kim because I know we can produce wonderful bread and pastries and with our experience over the years in this industry we will be able to conquer all the business challenges that will arise.