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Prerequisites for opening a cake shop


Abstract

To open a cake shop, equipment and facilities are the basic conditions. Generally speaking, a small cake shop needs the following equipment: oven, bread proofing box, fermentation tank, size mixer, tablet press, ice crusher, egg beater, cake mold , Bakeware, refrigerated cabinets, display cabinets, refrigerators, consoles, butter machines, rack carts, cash registers, various molds, knives, gadgets and other raw materials.

Store hardware conditions

1. Hardware facilities

To open a cake shop, equipment and facilities are the basic conditions. Generally speaking, a small cake shop needs the following equipment: oven, bread proofing box, fermentation tank, size mixer, tablet press, ice crusher, egg beater, cake mold , Bakeware, refrigerated cabinets, display cabinets, refrigerators, consoles, butter machines, rack carts, cash registers, various molds, knives, gadgets and other raw materials.

2. Apply for opening certificate

To open a store, you must go to the following departments to apply for certificates: apply for a business license at the Industrial and Commercial Bureau, apply for a food hygiene permit at the Health Bureau, register for tax payment and receive invoices at the taxation department, and apply for a health certificate at an epidemic prevention station.

Personal ability and quality of the owner

1. The job content of the shopkeeper

1) Do a good job of the top management of the store. Manage the daily operations of the store and complete the company's various economic indicators.

2) Do a good job as a store image agent. As a store owner, you need to cultivate good relationships with all stakeholders, customers, and business partners in your area. The shopkeeper's every move, every word and deed represents the image of the company, and the decision made is on behalf of the company.

3) Do a good job of coordination. When a problem occurs in the store, it should be the first time, as the store manager, to coordinate as soon as possible to make it recover smoothly.

4) Do a good job as an informant. Communicate the changes in market conditions, various policies and plans of the store to the store staff accurately and quickly.

5) Do a good job as a tutor. Instructing and educating store employees is an important responsibility of the store owner, so if the store manager does not have this ability, he is not a qualified store owner.

6) Do a good job of preservation. The shop owner must ensure the safety of all assets of the shop.

7) Do a good job in sales. The shop owner is also a salesperson in the shop. He should understand the psychology and needs of customers shopping, so as to ensure the marketability of the goods in the shop and make it prosperous.

8) Do a good job in the feedback of business information. The owner of the store should provide timely feedback to the company on the situation and consumption dynamics in his area, so that the company can take appropriate measures for market changes.

2. Qualities a shop owner should possess

1) The store manager should be a person who loves life and is full of fun in life. On the one hand, the chain stores are satisfying the daily consumption of the target customer group, and at the same time, they must also guide the customers' trendy shopping. The purpose of this is not only to increase the sales of the store, but also one of the ways to stabilize the customer group. Only when the store manager has a rich life experience can he understand what the customer needs, under what circumstances, what to buy, and how to use it. All of this requires the operator to love life and have a lot of life experience.

2) The store manager should also have a keen business vision, and have a certain analytical ability, and be able to analyze the focus of the store's work from the numerous product sales data.

3) The store manager must also have honest character, rich love and compassion. Honest character is the foundation of all abilities, and caring for employees is the most effective way to stimulate their enthusiasm for work and maintain the authority of the store manager.

4) The store manager must have certain organizational leadership skills. Only in this way can the store manager assume the responsibility of managing the daily operations of the store and unite all store employees to jointly complete various economic indicators.

5) The store manager should also have strong self-consciousness and interpersonal communication skills. The requirement for self-learning ability is that because the industry is developing faster and faster, there are many emerging concepts, methods and devices that need to be understood and learned, otherwise they will be eliminated by the times. The store manager has strong interpersonal communication skills in order to deal with the internal and external, top-to-down relationships more quickly. At the same time, the store manager must pass on his management knowledge and experience to the rest of the store without reservation. Employees to promote the overall quality and level of the store.

6) The store manager must also have good physical fitness. This item seems funny, why do you need to be in good health to be a store manager? In fact, because the job of the store manager is hard work, he is required to be able to withstand long-term fatigue and full load of stressful work, so it is absolutely impossible without a healthy body.

3. Understand industry knowledge and be an expert cake shop owner

As the saying goes, only insiders and knowledgeable people can do this job well. If you want to open a cake shop, the first and most important thing is the technical problem. Only when you have enough relevant knowledge and technology can you have a comprehensive and systematic understanding of the cake shop, and then open a cake shop and run it well. Technical knowledge is the prerequisite for good products, and good products are the key to the success of the cake shop.

There are different ways to solve production technical problems. At this stage, the most direct and quick way is to attend a baking training class. In the training class, the teacher will unreservedly teach all kinds of popular bread, cake, small pastry making techniques, so that you can become a qualified decorator in a short time. At the same time, you can also learn a lot of knowledge about equipment and raw materials, allowing you to fully understand the business you want to develop.

Many cake failures are more or less caused by the lack of professional knowledge of the operators, because the lack of professional knowledge will cause the increase of production costs and the uncertainty of product quality, which will increase your business risks. For example: if you have enough knowledge, you will know what kind of equipment, what tools, what kind of products and whether the products made by pastry chefs are qualified, and you don't need to rely too much on pastry chefs for advice. . You need to understand that as a boss, our goal is to create the greatest value with the least input, and the pastry chefs consider how to make their work easier and get the most benefits. In the past, many people who opened cake shops completely obeyed the advice of pastry chefs because they didn't understand professional knowledge, until they couldn't continue, which led to failure.

Therefore, if you want to open a bakery, you must have sufficient reserves of expertise. In addition to school studies, you also need to keep abreast of industry trends in time to ensure that you stand at the forefront of technology, products, and marketing. Ordering some books and magazines is a good choice. You can also regularly participate in various demonstrations, exhibitions, and exhibitions hosted by schools or raw material distributors to enrich your knowledge. Only by mastering knowledge can you master your career and accomplish your career.