
Being moderately successful is okay if you want to run your business for the rest of your life, but if you want to retire, you’re going to need some power tips-especially if you’re aiming to match the legendary status of Dutch Bros. While owning a drive-thru coffee shop can be profitable, there are some lesser-known secrets to creating a thriving coffee business. “If a customer comes and asks for it, we’ll get it to them,” she said.Have you opened up a drive-thru coffee shop? Are you thinking about opening one? Drive-thru coffee seems like an automatic cash machine-everyone loves fast, convenient coffee, right? She said she will bake cupcakes, cookies, doughnuts, pretzels, cannoli, macaroons, cinnamon rolls and more. Gatison said she will be very flexible to start and willing to meet the baking needs of her community. “There’s plenty of parking and it’s centrally located right by the old Armstrong building. “I’m hoping I can go over there and see it,” she said. Mayor Nancy Rossi said many residents are limited to supermarket baked goods if they want something made, so she is excited to see a homegrown bakery open its doors. “We welcome any good bakery opening up,” he said.

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“They’re not letting me sell anything that doesn’t taste good,” she said.Īlan Olenick, director of the West Haven Chamber of Commerce, said city residents often have asked for a bakery since the 2013 closure of Peschell’s, which ended the popular shop’s 67-year run on Campbell Avenue. She tried the recipe again to ensure it was not beginner’s luck - and she learned it was not.įrom there, she began testing new recipes and ideas with her family - including eight siblings and 27 nieces and nephews - who she said all are “brutally honest.” She said when her husband tried one, he assured her with complete sincerity that it was very good. She estimates it was less than three years ago that she was watching baking videos online and reasoned that it couldn’t be too hard to do herself - so she bought a mixer and all the other necessary appliances and ingredients and made Oreo cupcakes, which she garnished with cookies on top.

“She messed up a lot of my sugar, my flour and my butter, but she never stopped with what she wanted to accomplish.”ĭespite that pageant promise, Gatison said it wasn’t until fairly recently that she seriously began to take baking as a vocation. “She’s wanted to do this from the beginning,” Hinton said. At one pageant Gatison announced that her dream job was to own a bakery - Gatison placed first with the judges in the speech portion of that pageant, Hinton said as an aside. Her mother, Linda Hinton, said that as a teenager Gatison participated in pageants. Gatison, who has worked much of her career thus far in human resources and business administration, had other ambitions beyond a desk job. She has been selling baked goods from her home for a little more than a year, and she said the community’s response encouraged her to expand and grow a business in the city where she’s always lived. When the bakery opens, its staff will be one person to start: Gatison herself.
