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If you own a bakery, you have already proven your skills in the kitchen. Whether it is artisan breads or sweet treats, everyone loves a good bakery. However, not everyone KNOWS about good bakeries in their area. Smaller shops do not usually have the manpower or budget to go out and heavily market their business to those prospective customers living...

Today is National Chocolate Chip Day, and you can’t Have you ever wondered how chocolate chip cookies were invented? Who was the genius foodie who decided to add these two separately delicious foods into one amazing treat? Read on to find out the entire history of the chocolate chip cookie! Believe it or not, the chocolate chip cookie is not...

There’s a winning tradition at The University of Alabama, and it’s time that attitude extended beyond the playing field. Constructed in 2006, the University’s Lakeside Dining Hall is the largest all-you-can-eat dining hall on campus. With its 20,000 square-foot space, the dining hall’s current layout was not efficient. Food stations were placed in scattered service-style arrangements with staff having to...

One week removed from World Autism Month, here is an eye-opening fact for you. Up to 85% of autistic adults remain unemployed in the United States. Silvia Planas Prats knows these adults are capable of much more than society allows, and changed her entire life around to prove it. Planas Prats, Founder & CEO of the Miami Is Kind Organization, quit her...

After struggling for years with food allergies and then finding out that her own children would suffer a similar fate, Allie of Allie’s GF Goodies decided to start an allergen free bakery business. “I know what it is like for other parents like me, parents of kids with allergies who feel like they’re missing out on the sheer goodness of...

Jason Ferreira discovered how one simple piece of equipment would help him realize his vision and change his bakery business forever. Jason Ferreira owns five of the over 100 Met Food supermarket locations in the NY area. Jason had a vision to increase his supermarket bakery business by offering his customers better quality artisan-style breads. Until that time, he was buying par-baked...

This Artisan Baker makes Quality the Top Priority in his Bakery. That’s why he chose an Equipment Supplier that does the same. When you walk into Pasticceria Bruno on Hylan Boulevard in Staten Island, NY you are suddenly transported to a trendy cafe in Italy.  Beautifully hand-crafted pastries, cakes, tarts, cookies and breads, line the showcases in the front of the bakery. ...

Empire helps “shape” the perfect ice cream sandwich “With the Suprema Cookie Depositor, we can make the same 400 cookies in about 4 minutes and with only 1 employee monitoring the machine. In addition, the shape and size of our cookies are now always consistent.” Nye’s Cream Sandwiches Company discovers how the addition of Empire’s Suprema Cookie Depositor could take their gourmet ice...

Read how the Empire LFKR Deck Oven helped acclaimed chef and baker Jeff Cleary realize his dream to fuse chef-inspired flavors and textures with old-world baking techniques to create custom variations of superbly baked artisan bread and rolls. In 2005, restaurant owner Jeff Cleary sold his restaurants to pursue his love of baking full time and opened the Grateful Bread Company. Grateful Bread...

”It may be a small oven, but to us, it was one of the most important purchases we had to make” When chefs Zachary and Amy Tyson set out to open their own bakery together, they had a clear vision about Boulangerie. Their bakery would reflect old world techniques and recipes and they would offer artisanal breads, a long-time passion for...