{"id":100,"date":"2008-07-01T20:01:30","date_gmt":"2008-07-02T01:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulspastry.com\/newsite\/?p=100"},"modified":"2015-11-02T22:14:46","modified_gmt":"2015-11-03T03:14:46","slug":"scrutinize-business-to-retain-profits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulspastry.com\/index.php\/2008\/07\/01\/scrutinize-business-to-retain-profits\/","title":{"rendered":"Scrutinize business to retain profits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"\/\/modern-baking.com\/\">Modern Baking<\/a>, creative thinking ensures Paul&#8217;s revenue:<\/p><blockquote cite=\"\/\/modern-baking.com\/mag\/scrutinize_business_retain\/\"><p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/paulspastry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/0729_profitability-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>Natural disasters can wreak havoc on a bakery&#8217;s profits, but they can also make it better by forcing the owners to seek out new business. Paul&#8217;s Pastry Shop found itself in just such a situation after Hurricane Katrina. The bakery was in the midst of constructing a new facility when the hurricane hit. \u201cWe had a long time getting built. We had 10 months longer than we expected to get into this building because we couldn&#8217;t get people here to build it,\u201d says Sherri Paul Thigpen, second-generation owner of the full-line retail bakery in Picayune, Miss. \u201cIt very much put a strain on us financially because we didn&#8217;t plan on having a note on this place and not be open. I think that you have to go out and look for business sometimes.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<p>Read full story at <a href=\"\/\/modern-baking.com\/mag\/scrutinize_business_retain\/\">modern-baking.com\/mag\/scrutinize_business_retain\/<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to Modern Baking, creative thinking ensures Paul&#8217;s revenue:Natural disasters can wreak havoc on a bakery&#8217;s profits, but they can also make it better by forcing the owners to seek out new business. Paul&#8217;s Pastry Shop found itself in just such a situation after Hurricane Katrina. The bakery was in the midst of constructing a [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[6,7,10],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulspastry.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulspastry.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulspastry.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulspastry.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulspastry.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/paulspastry.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3270,"href":"https:\/\/paulspastry.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions\/3270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulspastry.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulspastry.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulspastry.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}