Sweet sales increased

During the pandemic period when people were staying at home, there was an explosion of demand for dessert and cake. said they received orders from all over the cake Pastry Chef of Turkey Omer Nation, "we thought early on in the pandemic period will be no jobs, but we did the opposite and jobs has increased by 200 percent," he said.

During these times of curfews, the demand for dessert increased considerably. Can Ekmek Bakery Pastry Chef and Konya Gastronomy and Chefs Association National Team Representative Ömer Ulus, who has been making pastry for about 13 years, said: “To do your job with love, to take care of your job. When you aspire to your job, you have nothing to do with the work done just to get the job done and finish it. You think about your work by saying that it is the best if it will happen, you give importance to it, you realize that your name is mentioned in that job and you take care to do the best. This is what we do when we make a cake. ”

'WE ARE AFFECTED POSITIVE AND NEGATIVELY'

Stating that they were affected both positively and negatively by the pandemic process, Can Ekmek Unlu Mamuller Founder Mevlüt Can said, “Since there is a curfew at night, our night work is over. We are experiencing difficulties in raw material supply due to the pandemic. Turkey had come over the raw materials. For example, our peanuts come from Antep, our oil comes from Maraş, our flour comes from Edirne, Konya, Samsun. The breakdown in the supply chain inevitably reflected on our prices. Since our citizens are also badly affected by the pandemic, we are trying not to reflect too much on our prices. "We, as bakers, make sacrifices as a sector." Stating that the most demanded products during the pandemic period were the dessert group, Mevlüt Can said, “Citizens' time at home has increased. In fact, the pandemic period was reflected positively in this sense. Because people started to spend time with their families again. As such, desserts, pastries, and buns started to be eaten ”. Can said, “If the pandemic process continues in this way, I think we will have more problems in terms of raw materials in the upcoming periods. If the drought continues like wheat probably will not be on Turkey's agenda next year. If there is no wheat there is no flour; if there is no flour, there is no bread. We sacrifice ourselves, but we don't sacrifice our products. Likewise, we think to continue on our way. As the cake, our motto is: "You imagine, think we will turn it into art." We are honored to provide you with whatever you have dreamed of in an architect way. Doing what everyone says is impossible gives us more pleasure than money. We do our job with love, not materially. Everyone does what is standard, the important thing is to do the impossible ”.

'THE NUMBER OF CAKES WE MAKE DAILY HAS INCREASED'

Pastry Chef Ömer Ulus, who stated that the cake and dessert orders increased by 50 percent, but that there was a 50 percent decrease in the boutique cake, said, “There were restrictions on things like wedding organization and birthday organization and the necessary celebrations could not be made. For this reason, there was a decline in the boutique cake. While we were making 30-40 years old cake in a normal day, we made 120-130 age cake a day during the pandemic period. As Can Ekmek, we make an average of 70 pies a day, besides we have pieces of cakes, we have princess cakes. Our wet cake, dry cake, pastry, yeasty products and baklava section provides separate services. There are some subtleties of making cake. First of all, everywhere should be tidy in order for things to work. The materials to be used in making the cake must be available to the master in front of the master. Making a cake is not too difficult if you have the complete raw material. "If your raw materials and equipment are insufficient, this will force the master too".

'WE WORK WITH HAPPINESS GUARANTEED'

“We are doing a job that guarantees happiness as a pastry cook,” said Ömer Ulus, explaining: “For example, people are very happy when they make their loved ones or relatives bake what they love very much. Imagination is very important in order to make a cake. Our customers sometimes show us the photo of the cake they want, and your imagination needs to be very wide in order to make it yourself. For example, the customer asked me to make a world cake, I designed my own cake by putting an airplane on the earth. It is imagination that makes the cake beautiful. When you look at the boutique cake, you see an architecture, you see the painting in its drawings, you see its construction. These make up a whole. I have been making cake for about 13-14 years. During this period, I made many cakes. When I saw that people were very happy when the desired cake came out, I was all tired. " Talking about the interesting cake design requests he received, Ulus said, “One of my customers asked me to make a cake in the form of a vacuum cleaner. When I asked why, he said that although he bought many toys for his child, he was very interested in his kid's vacuum cleaner. A very wealthy client of mine had asked me to make a dollar cake, we designed every part of the cake as dollars. “This was one of the interesting cakes that came to us” and ended his words.

SÜMEYRA KENESARI / YENİ HABER