First course
Bakeries work in Victorville
Victorville sits on the high desert along the I 15, and the bakery trade here runs on two kinds of buyer. One is the household ordering a birthday cake, a sheet cake for a quinceanera or a few dozen rolls for a family gathering. The other is the small commercial buyer, a restaurant, a church or a school group, picking up trays and boxes on a schedule. The searches follow the population: a city of this size with a steady flow of families moving in from the Los Angeles basin and the Inland Empire keeps a constant stream of people looking for a bakery near them, often on a phone, often the same day they need the cake. The businesses taking that demand are mostly owner operators and small local chains rather than national franchises, so the field is made of shops that live or die on being found by name and by neighbourhood. That is the demand available in Victorville, and it is searched every week of the year.
