The Future of the Business

I thought of writing this to end the Baking Class startups series

Today eh as of this blog post the school year of my grade 11 ends and the baking class elective is done. I mean its well the summer for grade 12 for me and the final school year before I eventually end up having to be an adult and get sentimental about my school days. But before I eventually move on to probably making this an official business and all. I’ll have to talk about what’ll be happening to this business.

Well before I get started I just want to say this, I started this business as a motivation to actually push through the baking class, the other option of elective didn’t work out and that was Robotics in all fairness I took the Robotics class last semester because I have no clue why I’d want to take it plus I’m not going to take a Stem course in the future. The other option was baking which even if its not something I’d think I’d enjoy would be a lot more useful in the long run and a much easier class for me than the Robotics course, so to actually have another purpose of getting grades and starting something I decided I’d sell the leftover baked goods, since the only thing I’d enjoy out of eating are cookies.

The first lesson I’d eventually baked brownies and enjoyed them and ever since people would buy lots of these from where I’d sell them a family general store. Then I‘d made it a rule whatever I baked for that class would be for sale.

So what’ll happen to this bakery well sometimes I’d start businesses because the school makes me do it pun intended here. Back in 4th grade I was groupmates with some people and I sold a Philippine recipe called Mango Graham Cake, in 5th grade I sold polvoron or something like that and in 9th grade I sold ice cream with graham crackers and smores. Also I gave out for sugar apples in 9th grade for class. Then I guess that’s all my history with business. Perhaps, in the future I’ll continue this as a side business not something I’d do full time since I guess it’s a risky thing to do. I’ve learnt that this bakery got rivalry the next door neighbor of mine its called Braided Bakery and they’re also a cloud kitchen like mine. I’ve got envious of them since they have a following and mine doesn’t but I got to remind myself I’ll eventually get there.

So if you’ve read till this point I’ll get this straight so for the first few months of Summer which is like two months or maybe a month and a half I’ll experiment on the more recipe sides of things like what the bakery sells and all. Since if I want to up my game I need to experiment on what sells and what doesn’t, the second half of the summer vacation, I’ll experiment on business tactics and all that marketing call it the boring side of doing stuff if you want. Well as a business it must figure out itself and its still probably a startup of things.

I mean legally its not really a business yet because I can’t sign any legal doccuments or do anything anyone legal can do till next year, well at least the pandemic has benefits. I’ll just wait next year to turn 18 because it’s just legal to do so. I’m already implying here that I’m 17 anyways. Since there’s not much I could do I guess I could probably start formalizing a business formula once the school year starts and check the changing food trends and try out doing things since it gets stale in business once in a while. Also because business needs to change with the times.

I mean I’ll call this a side business, a side hustle is blurry its either you make money from it from passion or you call it an official business anyways. Depending on what you make out of earning money from it. But ehm for the sake of this thing I’ll just call it a more formal business it probably got out of this side hustle passion phase just after the school year ended. I mean there’s not much I could do other than maybe applying to college or spending a gap year if there’s a possibility for it. I guess that’s for me to decide.

One thing that’s probably a bestseller for this business was the brownies and maybe the second one was cookies and I was thinking of having a preorder date a cutoff date and time and perhaps an estimated delivery date and time also making a google forms for order perhaps and allowing messenger messages. Also putting up two tarpolines perhaps to rival out the other bakery. I mean it’s got to be a marketing strategy. I mean you got to up a lot of things if you want to be serious.

I also need to figure out doing stuff part time and doing stuff for schoolwork and blogging this for college applications (to prove that this business is actually real and not a scum). I mean one thing for certain during midsemester exams and final exams the bakery will be closed even if its college. Because I need to focus also probably for my grade 12 year my exams will probably be mostly project based but there’s still written exams anyways. So to not overstress myself the bakery will be closed. Probably whatever happens when I’m 18 has to be some choice I’ll make.

So for now I’ll probably make this a more formal business and up my game due to rivalry it’ll be a friendly competition. Also to probably be more formal as I need to balance this as a part time student and part time entrepreneur. But this summer is probably a part 1 formalization of this business with blog posts being more on it and once that’s settled probably most of the blog posts I write will be more on the business side of things rather than me baking a new recipe. I think it’ll be a recipe for