The Baker's Trade: A Recipe for Creating the Successful Small Bakery

by Zachary Y. Schat

Book Overview

This is the first book ever to explain everything needed to work through the thicket of rules, procedures, and tasks for starting and running a prosperous retail or wholesale bakery. It gets going... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0963937162
• ISBN13: 9780963937162
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Acton Circle Pub Co
• Length: 275 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.3" x 0.8" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

Great book

If you look for a book that explains clearly and concretely the baker job and how to run a bakery business, buy this book. It's very useful and very practical.

Terrific Genuine Insight

So there are a few grammatical errors. But yoou can stil readd it and see that their is valuble information in it! I have worked in two bakeries and have decorated cakes professionally for over 8 years. This book is fabulous and very generous for Schat to share - it really gives you an inside look into the heart of a bakery... what it takes to run one well. I enjoyed learning from his expirience.

Informative and well-thought out guidebook

Schat has done a great job of explaining the large and small details of owning a small bakery. The book is sprinkled with ancedotes and information from other bakery/food business owners. A great starting place if you are thinking of opening a bakery.

Practical advice

A Baker's Trade offers practical advice to all who are interested in starting a bakery business. When I read the book, I feel like Schat is there beside me sharing his experiences in his tough-cookie voice. True, his style is not literary and some might feel that the book is not well-written because it's tone is so conversational. On the other hand, it's precisely the informal and conversational tone that convinces one that the contents were written by a real baker, not a writer. The advice given is authentic and the desire to help other would-be bakery operators is sincere. I highly recommend Schat's unselfish book to all who are interested in knowing how a real bakery operates.

An excellent source of information.

If you are thinking about opening a bakery, this book is for you. Packed with information,anecdotes,and a great appendix, the whole task is laid out in a very easy to follow and easy to understand manner. I highly recommend this book