Welcome to the foolish mind, and the far-fetched project inventory of: MY BRAIN
Every year - every month really - I come up with several ideas for businesses I can start for fun, and hopefully some profit. They have ranged from flower arranging, to pirate-day-camps - yet they all have one thing in common...
They never happen!
I know right? What a rotten outlook on my business ventures...but sadly it's true. Maybe one day I'll just get one of those shock-inducing-trick-gumpacks and keep zapping myself until I follow through on one of these ideas.
So the latest idea was this:
~The Dorm room Bakery~
Every year - every month really - I come up with several ideas for businesses I can start for fun, and hopefully some profit. They have ranged from flower arranging, to pirate-day-camps - yet they all have one thing in common...
They never happen!
I know right? What a rotten outlook on my business ventures...but sadly it's true. Maybe one day I'll just get one of those shock-inducing-trick-gumpacks and keep zapping myself until I follow through on one of these ideas.
So the latest idea was this:
~The Dorm room Bakery~
Yeah that's right! I MADE that crustily loaf of awesome you see before you. From scratch, with my own bare hands, and quite a few potentially disastrous happenings along the way!
My plan was simple:
1.) make a truckload of bread dough which I will then put in freezer and thaw out for later weeks
2.) Bake crusty-on-the-outside-soft-within artisan loafs of bread every sunday morning and distribute them to hungry and appreciative college dorm residents.
3.) Reap benefits of fresh bread, paychecks, and happy customers.
Then I discovered a vital flaw in my plan:
It is against the law in Minnesota to sell homemade baked goods without a licensed kitchen/permit...
well there goes business idea No. 2983
Seriously Minnesota? How can you deny college students the glory of fresh made bread? I mean I always could distribute it out for free - but let's be honest: flour and yeast don't pay for themselves!
Anywho - the verdict of my three taste testers was:
"GOOD!"
"yum - tastes like Panera baguettes"
"when we live in an apartment, you need to bake bread for us all the time"
Myself personally, I though it was a little too flat, and a little too gummy. Solution?
More yeast and longer cooking time.
Easily fixed since next time I won't be dealing with a fourth of a recipe! (Imagine trying to measure out .379 tbs of yeast and you'll get an idea of what I was working with...)
Also, next time we will actually reserve the kitchen, so we don't have to deal with flustered cupcake makers demanding us to hand over the oven before the bread is fully finished!
Man do I love homemade bread...
So here's my question:
Do I give up business idea No. 2983?
Or do I limit my amount of customers and sell black-market bread? Maybe if I don't make a big deal of it, no one will care and I can just have fun, feed the masses and pickup a few extra dollars while I'm at it...Maybe I'll get arrested instead.
Somehow I don't think it's worthy of an arrest...maybe a warning, but that's about it.
Seriously though: what should I do?
