BRANDENBURG PASTRY BAKERY

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... in 2010 both unhappy with our jobs in Germany, we decided to move back to Errol's hometown Kenoza Lake NY, to start our own business. Since I had a pastry degree and Errol is good with numbers we figured the logical idea was to open a bakery in the area.
After just a couple months of research and the help from Sam Kandel from the Mid-Hudson Small Business Development Center, we had a proper Business Plan written and received our start-up loan in Dec. 2010. We had already found a location on Route 52 in Jeffersonville that we leased for 3 years.
During the first two years, Errol and I were running the show all by ourselves. We had a doorbell installed that would ring in the kitchen when a customer entered the tiny store. One of us would stop what we were doing and help the customer. Of course that system had its flaws, on busy days we didn't get much done during business hours, what meant that we had to do overtime and stay at long as it took to get everything ready for the following day. Sixteen or seventeen hour days were pretty normal for us at that time.