BERLIN: German bakery is selling cakes just like grandma used to make, because it’s employing real grandparents to make them. In order to provide the kind of homemade, old-fashioned pastries many customers remember from their youths, while also helping some retired people earn extra money and feel useful and less lonely, the Kuchentratsch bakery in Munich offers part-time employment to bakers over the age of 65. Bakery employs 35 bakers over the age of 65, and they seem to love it.
A man who goes by Grandpa Gunter said he only knew how to make eggs and coffee before he retired, but now he comes in to bake cakes once a week and has taken to baking for his grandchildren.Mayer said she started out by thinking about cake, and how she thought the best cake was her grandmother’s. After that, she realized a bakery staffed by real grandparents might be able to create that “baked with love” homemade cake experience while providing mini jobs for pensioners.
