Sobeys

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Sobeys

• 2575 Main St.
• November 14-December 27, 2007
• Denise Hogan

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High Volume Production Bakery

• 2575 Main St.
• SIZE
• Widest range of different clientele shop there.

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My Responsibilities

• 3 different kinds of shifts
• MIXING
• Mix the breads, buns, peach glaze, biscuits etc.
• Bench
• Weigh out, mold breads, buns, coffee cakes. Pan
  breads.
• Make cinnamon buns
• Bake Proof everything I made
• Help open the store by getting all prep from
  night before out of the cooler/freezer to get
  ready for baking

• Muffins Donuts
• Bake decorate donuts (fritters, Choc/rasp.
  filled to maple topped.)
• Scoop muffins make the muffin mix
• Frozen lay out, had to get all the frozen items
  ready for the next morning
• Also I had to learn the paperwork. What was
  selling what we had to make each day. Also what
  to have ready for the next days shift

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Events

• Once a month they have dollar days. We made A LOT
  of bread buns those weeks
• Once we had 1-2-3 dollar day. We had to double
  our production for all sale items

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Professional Goals

• Want to develop my time management skills
• I had 8 hours to make close to 30 different types
  of bread, 10 different buns, cinnamon buns, and
  get 5 types of breads prepped for the next day.
• Learn how to multi-task better
• Had to mold bread, pan breads, while watching the
  ovens proofer. Had to put out breads in a
  certain order. Get out the night before items out
  and proofed and ready.
• Learn a new wide range of products
• I had to almost start over. The way they do their
  biscuits, ciabatta bread, and a couple of other
  breads were different than the way we did in
  class. I had to learn to break my old habits and
  adapt to the way of making their products.

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Personal Goals

• Learn to communicate better
• I had to learn to understand people in a loud
  atmosphere. Due to the wide range of employees in
  the bakery I had to learn to bridge all kinds of
  communication barriers.
• Gain more on job experience
• This was the first time I worked in a commerical
  bakery , let alone any bakery. I gained lots of
  experience in a fast paced high production
  bakery.
• Learn how a bakery works
• Learn a lot of ways to be more accurate on
  measuring out the dough to be made so there was
  no left over/waste. I learned a good deal of
  paper work, from what was selling, what is to be
  made to general inventory. I learned that
  sometimes fresh is the best way but sometimes you
  do not have the time or the money to spend on the
  labour Example Croissants. They are time
  consuming and you can buy them frozen for 10-29
  cents a piece and virtually no labour and similar
  quality

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Interests Conclusion

• It was a great eye opener to the fast paced
  commercial way of baking. Im very happy that I
  went for my first coop in this environment. I had
  to learn a lot in a short period of time with
  little training.
• But to work there as a full time job for a long
  period of time.. NO thanks. The bulk of the work
  is breads. If you want to concentrate of
  breads/buns then this is for you. If you want
  creativity or pastries this is not the place to
  be. Creativity leave it at home. You must do
  everything the same way all the time. You cant
  make anything but what is on the list and you
  dont actually mold or round anything. Its all
  done by machine (exsheeter, bun divider).
• Even the cakes and donuts are decorated the same
  way every time, unless a customer wants a cake
  decorated a certain way.
• I do remember making cookies one day. Mixed from
  a bag scooped baked.. Done. But around
  Christmas everything was brought in frozen the
  most work you would do on those cookies was to
  dip them in sprinkles.
• All and all it was a good experience in the way
  that it opened my eyes to the commercial world.
  Its fast paced I see why so many people quit
  this job. Low pay a lot of work. The good part
  was that I had to learn a lot learnt to work
  in a fast paced business.
• Would I recommend it to anyone for their first
  coop, yes, just for the challenge of keeping up
  and getting to learn so many departments. For a
  job maybe for awhile, but I would get bored very
  quickly and get extremely lazy!