Mo Dough Risin | Application Preview
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General Information
Business Registration Number: 032-88-331
Location: Brattleboro, VT, United States
Length of Operation: 1-5
Number of Employees: 1-10 Employees
Annual Gross Income: More than $10M
Annual Gross Expense: Less than $100k
Open to Loans: NO
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Funding Usage
Our business is applying for funding to invest in our bakery/health food bars. They are really delicious and always sell out. We feel strongly that by having the proper space to make enough quantity, we can really become a locally treasured industry! We will spend any grant given on improving our kitchen and bakery to higher standards, moving towards a completely green operation, with all electric equipment operating on solar power.
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Business Plan
I want ot get my home kitchen up and running again, and b egin to supply the local vendors with my baked goods agin, to get the name reestablished. I have local store front owners contacting me constantly asking when my baked goods will once again be available for purchase. I will continue this growth for 12 months, bringing on two assistants after three months to train and increase supply and demand. The Health Food Bars are a separate entity from the baked goods. They are clevery packaged and also have a longer shelf-life than the fresh baked goods, allowing us to sell them in such places as park stores and hiking/camping stores, natural health stores, cafes and markets as well as online.The idea is to eventually franchise these bars within five years to Wholefoods or similar larger retailer, and eventually open an English tea-shop/bakery in Yucca Valley itself. Well, that is a great question! There are many deserving business owners out there who deserve a chance of help. I am no novice to the world of baking or of hard work. The two things kind of go hand in hand, you have to get up early to make fresh baked goods six days a week, and it becomes a way of life. I know that i am very good at what I do. It gives me so much pleasure to see people excited about my baked goods, our commitment to all organic ingredients, to high quality taste and freshness. In the fast-growing town of Yucca Valley, there is really only one cafe; and the selection is limited and convenient. There is such a gap in the market for good-quality baked goods, and I want to bring this to the town of Yucca Valley because I live there.
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Self Identified Competition
There are only two so called 'competitors' in the area; one called Boo's Bakery in Joshua Tree, and the Frontier Cafe in Yucca Valley. Neither of these establishments come close to the freshness and taste of our products. There is a big shortage of good quality baked goods in our area of the high desert. Firstly, we are totally organic. Secondly, we are all about texture and taste. Our bars are delicious, and have a good shelf life of about two weeks. We sold our health food Bars at several local establishments in 2019 and 2020, such as the Sisters Cafe in Joshua Tree, (where we supplied 100 scones a week in three different flavors).Ultimately, what tends to happen is the storefronts try to either figure our recipes, or ask us to come and work for them! Before I came to the desert, I owned a British tea shop for many years in Bernardston, Massachusetts, called The Queen of Cups. There, we would bake up to 250 scones and cookies a day, fresh bread and cakes, serving a full English Breakfast on Sundays and High Tea every day. I share this to show that I am no newcomer to business, nor to baking and the commitment it takes to running a consistent and capable company. I feel that our area of Yucca Valley would benefit so much from this culture, and the flow of tourists would also enjoy it.It is a natural progression to eventually open another tea shop in Yucca Valley, but I want to establish the name of the baked goods first from home. Thank you for reading this!
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