Scoped out the farmer's market again. No scones this time at the baker's corner, but an apple tart instead and then the same stuff they had last time -- doughnuts, flavored bread, some mini-pies, and a bunch of varieties of something I'm not sure of the name. Like your various "dessert breads" (banana bread...zucchini bread) kind of, or at least it was in slices like bread slices, though individually wrapped.
Viva industrial espionage :-)
Friday, September 7, 2007
Wednesday, September 5, 2007
Quizno's Fraud?
Attention fellow readers, this is a call for an investigation:
The next time you buy a sandwich at Quizno's, please "make it a combo" and save your receipt. Check if it adds to the correct amount ($1.99 for the medium drink and your choice of sides). I ask because it appears that one of our local quizno's does not, in fact coming to 2.29 with chips, or 2.49 with a cookie or side salad. This is, needless to say, false advertising and I am wondering if it's an endemic problem or just restricted to this one establishment.
The next time you buy a sandwich at Quizno's, please "make it a combo" and save your receipt. Check if it adds to the correct amount ($1.99 for the medium drink and your choice of sides). I ask because it appears that one of our local quizno's does not, in fact coming to 2.29 with chips, or 2.49 with a cookie or side salad. This is, needless to say, false advertising and I am wondering if it's an endemic problem or just restricted to this one establishment.
Sunday, September 2, 2007
bakery competition
So I was semi-accidentally dropped off by the bus on Thursday at the site of the Winooski Farmer's Market, alleged to be the future take-off point of my bakery. It was surprisingly smaller than I had expected, only comprising five or six booths.
Unfortunately one of them happened to be a bakery. So...rats to that. They were selling flavored breads, buttermilk donuts (50c apiece), apple danishes, blueberry-cream cheese danishes, and two kinds of scones (apple cinnamon and blueberry). Also some pie type things. The danishes and scones were both for 2$ apiece which was nice to see as that's kind of where I was leaning towards charging after my "research".
I bought a blueberry-cheese danish and I have to say, I was very pleased. Not because the danish was good, but because I felt I could totally out-bake them. It was very heavy and dense, not at all like the airy flakiness I typically associate with danishes. Though, as mum pointed out, there can be a wide variety within the danish field, so maybe that was deliberate and not the sign of an incompetent baker ;-). Still I felt good about competition. Besides they only had two kinds of scones and I would have way more. Blueberry, it's ok that we overlap b/c blueberry's pretty much a staple I think...if you can't make a blueberry scone then you probably don't deserve to open a bakery anyway! The apple cinnamon I'll leave to them.
So we have nitiated phase two, "scope out the competition" :-)
Unfortunately one of them happened to be a bakery. So...rats to that. They were selling flavored breads, buttermilk donuts (50c apiece), apple danishes, blueberry-cream cheese danishes, and two kinds of scones (apple cinnamon and blueberry). Also some pie type things. The danishes and scones were both for 2$ apiece which was nice to see as that's kind of where I was leaning towards charging after my "research".
I bought a blueberry-cheese danish and I have to say, I was very pleased. Not because the danish was good, but because I felt I could totally out-bake them. It was very heavy and dense, not at all like the airy flakiness I typically associate with danishes. Though, as mum pointed out, there can be a wide variety within the danish field, so maybe that was deliberate and not the sign of an incompetent baker ;-). Still I felt good about competition. Besides they only had two kinds of scones and I would have way more. Blueberry, it's ok that we overlap b/c blueberry's pretty much a staple I think...if you can't make a blueberry scone then you probably don't deserve to open a bakery anyway! The apple cinnamon I'll leave to them.
So we have nitiated phase two, "scope out the competition" :-)
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