I am a home baker. I am married with nine children. I live with all of them including my husband. All of our children are in school. I am a stay-at-home mom who bakes to make money on the side. I bake using a charcoal burner for now, as I cannot afford the price of a gas oven.
The challenge with this is that when I get more than one order, I cannot bake them at the same time. I have to bake the cakes one by one. One time, I got three orders on the same day and had to forfeit two night's sleep because my charcoal burner can only bake one cake at a time. Another challenge is I cannot expand as quickly as I want to. I want to go into the whole range of baked goods and sweets but I find myself limited by my equipment.
A gas oven would go a long way in allowing me to expand my home business and hopefully make more profits. This, in turn, will help improve the quality of life for my family and ease the expenses overall of our family.
I bake cakes for all occasions: birthdays, weddings, anniversaries and any sort of celebration, including a 5-tier wedding cake I delivered to my client. So far, the business manages to pay bills and put food on the table even with limited equipment. I love baking, a trait I inherited from my grandfather who used to bake bread and supply to schools. My revenues vary from month to month, but on a good month I can make $500. After removing running costs for baking materials, the rest goes into school fees for the children. I find that I cannot expand as I would like because after paying fees, nothing is left over.
The loan is basically to buy commercial equipment such as a commercial oven, additional mixers and other baking equipment in order to increase sales.
I would also like to set up a website to market my cakes and be able to take orders online. This would greatly enhance sales by almost double.
I would also like eventually to build an additional kitchen to cater for my baking business.
A commercial oven and mixers to expand my bakery business
I am a home baker. I am married with nine children. I live with all of them including my husband. All of our children are in school. I am a stay-at-home mom who bakes to make money on the side. I bake using a charcoal burner for now, as I cannot afford the price of a gas oven.
The challenge with this is that when I get more than one order, I cannot bake them at the same time. I have to bake the cakes one by one. One time, I got three orders on the same day and had to forfeit two night's sleep because my charcoal burner can only bake one cake at a time. Another challenge is I cannot expand as quickly as I want to. I want to go into the whole range of baked goods and sweets but I find myself limited by my equipment.
A gas oven would go a long way in allowing me to expand my home business and hopefully make more profits. This, in turn, will help improve the quality of life for my family and ease the expenses overall of our family.
I bake cakes for all occasions: birthdays, weddings, anniversaries and any sort of celebration, including a 5-tier wedding cake I delivered to my client. So far, the business manages to pay bills and put food on the table even with limited equipment. I love baking, a trait I inherited from my grandfather who used to bake bread and supply to schools. My revenues vary from month to month, but on a good month I can make $500. After removing running costs for baking materials, the rest goes into school fees for the children. I find that I cannot expand as I would like because after paying fees, nothing is left over.
The loan is basically to buy commercial equipment such as a commercial oven, additional mixers and other baking equipment in order to increase sales.
I would also like to set up a website to market my cakes and be able to take orders online. This would greatly enhance sales by almost double.
I would also like eventually to build an additional kitchen to cater for my baking business.