What equipment and certificates are needed to open a bakery and cake shop?

Necessary conditions for opening a cake shop

1. Hardware facilities

To open a cake shop, equipment and facilities are the basic conditions. Generally speaking, small cake shops need The following equipment: oven, bread proofing box, fermentation box, large and small mixers, tablet press, ice crusher, egg beater, cake mold, baking pan, refrigerated cabinet, display cabinet, refrigerator, operating table, butter machine, rack truck , cashier, various molds, knives, small appliances and other raw and auxiliary materials.

2. Apply for opening certificates

To open a store, you need to go to the following departments to apply for certificates: go to the Industrial and Commercial Bureau to apply for a business license, go to the Health Bureau to apply for a food hygiene license, and go to the tax department to register and pay. To collect tax invoices, staff go to the epidemic prevention station to apply for health certificates.

Personal abilities and qualities of the store owner

1. Job content of the store owner

1) Do a good job as the top manager of the store. Manage the daily operation of the store and complete the company's economic indicators.

2) Do a good job as a store image agent. As a store owner, you need to cultivate good relationships with various stakeholders, customers, and business partners in your area. Every move, word and deed of the store owner represents the company's image, and the decisions he makes represent the company's decisions.

3) Do a good job in coordination. When a problem occurs in the store, you should coordinate it as soon as possible as the store manager to restore it smoothly.

4) Do a good job as a conveyor of information. Correctly and quickly communicate changes in market conditions, store policies, plans, etc. to store employees.

5) Do a good job as a mentor. Guiding and educating store employees is an important responsibility of the store owner. Therefore, if the store manager does not have the ability in this area, he is not a qualified store owner.

6) Do a good job in security. Store owners must ensure the safety of all store assets.

7) Do a good job in sales. The store owner is also a salesperson in the store. He should understand the customer's shopping psychology and needs, so as to ensure that the store's products are marketable and make it prosperous.

8) Provide feedback on business information. Store owners should promptly provide feedback to the company on the situation and consumption trends in their region so that the company can take appropriate measures in response to market changes.

2. Qualities that a store owner should possess

1) The store manager should be a person who loves life and is very interesting in life. On the one hand, chain stores are satisfying the daily consumption of target customer groups, and at the same time, they are also guiding customers towards trendy shopping. The purpose of this is not only to increase store sales, but also to stabilize their own customer groups. Only store managers with rich life experience will understand what customers need, under what circumstances, what customers buy, and how to use it. All of this requires operators to love life and have a lot of life experience.

2) The store manager should also have a keen business vision and certain analytical skills, and be able to analyze the focus of the store's work from numerous product sales data.

3) The store manager must also have honest character, rich love and compassion. Honest moral character is the foundation of all abilities, and caring for employees is the most effective way to stimulate their enthusiasm for work and maintain the authority of the store manager.

4) The store manager must have certain organizational leadership skills. Only in this way can the store manager assume the responsibility of managing the daily operations of the store and unite all store employees to jointly complete various economic indicators.

5) The store manager should also have strong self-awareness and interpersonal communication skills. The requirement for self-learning ability is because the industry is developing faster and faster, and there are many emerging concepts, methods and equipment that need to be understood and learned, otherwise they will be eliminated by the times. The store manager has strong interpersonal communication skills in order to quickly handle various relationships internally, externally, and between superiors and subordinates. At the same time, the store manager must also pass on his management knowledge and experience to other people in the store without reservation. employees to promote the improvement of the overall quality and level of the store.

6) The store manager must also have good physical fitness.

This one seems funny, why do you need to be in good health to be a store manager? In fact, because the store manager's job is a hard job that requires him to be able to withstand long-term fatigue and a full load of intense work, it is absolutely impossible not to have a healthy body.

3. Understand industry knowledge and be an expert cake shop owner

As the saying goes, only an expert and knowledgeable person can do this job well. If you want to open a cake shop, the first and most important thing is technical issues. Only when you master enough relevant knowledge and technology can you comprehensively and systematically understand the cake shop, then open a cake shop and run it well. Technical knowledge is the prerequisite for making good products, and good products are the key to the success or failure of a cake shop.

Production technology problems can be solved in different ways. At this stage, the most direct and quick way is to attend a baking training class. In the training class, the teacher will teach you the production techniques of various popular breads, cakes, and pastries without reservation, so that you can become a qualified pastry maker in a short time. At the same time, you can also learn a lot about equipment and raw materials, giving you a comprehensive understanding of the business you want to develop.

The failure of many cakes is more or less caused by the operator's lack of professional knowledge, because the lack of professional knowledge will cause an increase in production costs and uncertainty in product quality, thereby increasing your business risks. For example: if you have enough knowledge, you will know what kind of equipment is needed, what kind of tools are used, what kind of products are produced and whether the products made by the pastry chefs are qualified, and you do not need to rely too much on the pastry chefs for advice. . You need to understand that as bosses, our goal is to create maximum value with minimum investment, while pastry chefs consider how to make their work easier and get the maximum benefit. In the past, many people who opened cake shops failed because they did not understand professional knowledge and completely followed the advice of pastry chefs until they could no longer continue.

Therefore, if you want to open a bakery, you must have sufficient professional knowledge reserves. In addition to school studies, you also need to keep abreast of industry trends to ensure that you are at the forefront of technology, products, and marketing. It is a good choice to order some books and magazines, and you can also regularly participate in various demonstrations, exhibitions, and exhibitions hosted by some schools or raw material dealers to enrich your knowledge. Only by mastering knowledge can you master your career and achieve your career.

Industry insiders revealed that the main reason why Yuanweifang failed to leave Shanghai this time was the "acclimatization" in terms of taste. German bread uses whole grains as its main raw material. The bread is hard and has a single taste, but Shanghainese prefer fancy bread that is softer and sweeter. In addition, many consumers of Yuanweifang in the interview said that the prices of this bakery's products are on the expensive side, at least one or two yuan more than ordinary bakeries. Industry insiders said that consumers are very price sensitive to bakery products. If the product is not innovative and the price is too expensive, it will be difficult to attract consumers to buy it.

Bakery

Origin

Bakery refers to a food processing factory mainly engaged in the processing and operation of pasta food, because in the past there were not as many pasta products as there are now. , and bakeries mostly focus on making bread, hence the name.

Development

Traditional bakeries mainly make bread and cakes, and are generally small in scale. After the reform and opening up, with the development of the market economy and the increase in product types, pasta categories have become more abundant, and a large number of chain-operated "bakeries" have emerged, such as Haolilai, Madeli, Caidiexuan, etc. famous.

Current situation

Today’s bakeries have also taken on a completely new look, and their products are more creative. In addition to bread in the traditional sense, they have also developed more products that are both beautiful and delicious. The pastries greatly enrich people's taste buds.

Good quality and low price, it is a market-oriented industry

Edit this section to prepare for opening a bakery

Preparations before opening

1 , General bakeries will hire a chef to specialize in making bread, and generally bakeries not only buy bread, but also at least cakes, other snacks, twists, etc. It is best not to make them yourself at the beginning, but to buy other products. Manufacturer's.

Because bread is not suitable for long-distance transportation, we usually make it ourselves.

2. Before opening the business, you should prepare some documents: business license (Industrial and Commercial Administration). Tax registration certificate (local tax bureau). Health license (local health bureau). Pollution discharge permit (local environmental protection bureau). Fire permit (local fire brigade). Personal health certificate (local health bureau).

3. Equipment preparation: Generally, a newly opened bakery can use some of the most basic equipment, and the equipment will be updated as it develops. For example, dough mixer (mixer), egg beater, butter machine (used for making cakes), tiered oven (equipped with oven trays), various grinding tools, generally used for cakes, and food packaging bags. A vessel for serving prepared bread.

4. Materials can be purchased at your local non-staple food market. Generally, as long as the raw materials are well preserved, they can be stored for half a year to a year. (Don’t forget to reserve a room or separate space during decoration. Build a disinfection room, otherwise the health department will investigate)

5. Finally, recruit a few salespeople and prepare for the opening.

Equipments needed to open a bakery, etc.

Proof box, mixer, stirrer, oven, flat stove, stainless steel pot, stainless steel operating table, rolling mallet, rolling pin, baking pan, Grease paper, cake molds, egg beaters, piping tips (one set), piping bags, refrigerators, freezers, cheese scrapers, various bread molds (square iron baking boxes, etc.), baking trays, scraper panels (scrapers) ), scales, measuring cups, measuring cylinders, large and small brushes, stainless steel basins, stainless steel bowls, saws, Western food dividers, square bread slicers, high-gluten flour (Golden Elephant is the best), low-gluten flour (rose flour is the best), butter , cream, chunk cheese or bulk cheese, sugar, eggs, milk, s500 bread improver, cake oil, yeast, and more!