SAME PRICE, SMALLER SIZE
Bakers maintain prices of bread but cut the size due to the high cost of ingredients
If the size of your favorite bread has become smaller, blame inflation.
The rising prices of ingredients have led bakeries to adjust the size of their breads to maintain the prices.
Elizabeth Go, president of D’ Cebu Baking Society Inc., assured that the prices of their baked products will remain.
“The inflation really affected us because the prices of some of the ingredients went up,” she said.
Go said that aside from ingredients, the price of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) has also been rising.
She explained that most bakeries use LPG because it is cheaper.
Go said bakeries innovate by making their bread pleasing to the eye as well as to the palate. “Kung gamay man, pero gwapa imong
pan niya lami, okay ra (Even if it’s smaller, it still looks good and is tasty, then it is okay).”
Currently, they have no problems when it comes to the source of their ingredients. “We have many suppliers, so there’s no problem in that area,” she said.
With the observance of the World Bread Day on Oct. 16, the Mandaue Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MCCI) opened yesterday the first Bakery World 2018 exhibition in the Visayas, which focused on baking and food service.
MCCI president Stanley Go said the event aims to become the bridge for micro, small and medium entrepreneurs to other players in the baking industry.
“Bakery World is a convergence, and a collaboration of different industries in the baking industry all over the world to help the small, medium, micro bakeries here in Cebu and in the Visayas,” he said.
Kaye Pasigay, a Grade 12 student from the Sisters of Mary in Talisay City, was glad to attend the event. It was part of their bread and pastry production subject in senior high. “I really want to build my own bakery in the near future.”
Bakery World 2018 will run until Sunday at the J Centre Mall in Mandaue City.