| I have not been on social media or anywhere connecting with my baklava people for a while because once the holiday season ended, it was imperative that I pivot my full attention back to the commercial kitchen I’ve been building out since August. Well, really the project was submitted to the City of Salt Lake in June, we received our permit to start building at the end of July, and we were supposed to be in the new space by October 1, just in time for the big rush.
Well, needless to say, that didn’t happen and while I was so disappointed and frustrated, I had to soldier on, keeping my head held high, making the best of it. I’ve always been transparent with you in my newsletters regarding the good, the bad, and the ugly of my entrepreneurship journey, but instead of discussing all that went wrong...this time, I prefer to only focus on what went right:
1) I now have a new 600 square foot, state of the art kitchen, with a brand new oven that allows me to bake 10 pans of baklava at once, compared to the one pan at-a-time production that I had in my home kitchen. The time I'll save baking now is life-changing!
2) Bringing strangers to work in my home just was not an option before. Now I can hire, build a team and GROW!
3) Which leads me to this positive thought…now I can have a little more work life balance! No more baking at all hours of the night, trying to keep up with production! When I’m home, I can rest and recuperate and when I’m at work I can focus on work!
4) Now I can provide baklava to companies that weren’t comfortable or able to work with Cottage/home kitchens. Having this new commercial kitchen puts Sheer Ambrosia on a whole new playing field.
The sky’s the absolute limit now. I have a beautiful new kitchen to craft my baklava from, a place where I can comfortably work and make my dreams come true with an amazing team of people I plan to build. I’m putting all the build-out negativity behind me now and only thinking of the amazing possibilities before me. Did I learn a few lessons from mistakes I made during the construction process? You betcha and if I can, I'll help others going through the process in the future not to make similar blunders, but I will not and cannot dwell on the past. The past is the past and the future is bright! Desi says we’ll need to put on our sunglasses it’s going to be so bright!
I’ve included a few photos of the new space and if you’re local stay tuned for info on our ribbon cutting party. Thank you all for your support and orders because if not for you, my customer-friends, I wouldn’t have grown enough to need a new space.
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