The Basis: Baking Expertise

Bakery cafes: in many parts of Europe, they are a familiar sight as extensions to traditional bakers' shops. In terms of product spectrum and sales weighting, they represent a significant step forward compared to take-away sales of bakery snacks that, at best, might be coupled with a few (standing) tables for on-site consumption. Generally speaking, the bakery sector has seen considerable rationalisation over the past decade, with an increase in higher-margin foodservice activities and a switch from on-site making and baking to baking-off industrially-produced part-baked products. Today, the sale of snacks is an important source of growth for bakeries of all kinds, from individual craft operations to local chains or supra-regional brands. Bakery cafes practice - or simulate - a successful competence transfer from basic business in the direction foodservice. A pan-European survey.

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