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Default Bakery closed -- as predicted

On 2017-07-21 9:22 AM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> About six months ago there was an ad for a new bakery opening in the
> town next to us. I read the ad and my wife and I figured it would be
> gone in a few months.
>
> Hours:
> Closed Sunday
> Closed Monday
> Tuesday to Saturday 6:30 to 1:30
>
> Unless it is a hobby, a business cannot sustain itself on those hours.
> It is across the street from a Church and would probably get a lot of
> customers after Mass.
>
> She did make breakfast sandwiches and had coffee. They did not make
> bread. The pastries were OK, nothing exceptional. The pies though,
> were fantastic. The crust was nice and flaky, the filling was plentiful
> and tasty, the price only $12.
>
> I went this morning hoping to score a good pie. The place is closed,
> some of the furnishings moved out.


Some people have no head for business!
I know of a former coffee bar in a small town on the west coast. It was
not doing very well financially so the owners increased the prices! It
soon went belly-up!
Graham