If you want to make money, do not open a bakery

by Sarah J. Gim, Posted Jan 30th 2008 @ 8:42PM

We've all had that dream. We're sitting on hour 14 of our work day, slumped down in our non-ergonomic chair, staring at the spreadsheets on our screen, ignoring the phone that's been ringing off the hook for the last 12 minutes, dreaming about leaving it all behind to...open a bakery.

The idea of waking up every morning and heading to the kitchen instead of a cubicle deep within the confines of a concrete and glass office building is warm and inviting, is it not? Sure, if you happen to not care about actually making money from your bakery. According to Forbes, the bakery business is in the Top 10 LEAST profitable businesses to start. In fact, the average pre-tax profit of a bakery is negative - you lose money.

So our advice to you when you stress out at work and want to march right out of your office to bake bread? Do it, but bake a loaf at home, then go back to work the next day.

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Tags: bakeries, bakery, baking, business, grains, profit

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1-31-2008 @9:05PM Molly said... Thank you for posting this. I've probably had this thought at least once a week while staring at my computer screen at work.
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