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Duncan bakery now more efficient
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U By CONNIE BURKE
||Yum, do you remember the de-
«lights of homemade bread?
■Duncan bakery recently started
providing dormitory cafeterias (the
Commons, Sbisa, and Duncan) with
11 bread on a daily basis.
^(■Students were able to sink their
L teeth into the bakery’s homemade
raisin, rye and wheat breads.
Hi; The bakery makes pastry products
foi the entire University. Most of the
1 rolls, cookies, pies, cakes and cob-
i.' bier you eat on campus come from
"6 Duncan bakery.
nilp Improvements completed in
id January have changed operation
1 methods at the bakery. With its new
fa machinery, the bakery can now
ihe; make its own bread.
“The ‘bread shop,’ one of the bak-
! ery’s new additions, will enable the
ail bakery to produce its own bread at 19
cents a loaf, a savings of 7 cents a loaf,
that will be passed on to the con
sumer,” Lloyd Smith, the project
coordinator, said.
Not only have the improvements
increased the variety of foods the
bakery offers, but they have also
enabled the bakery to cut production
time while increasing production.
The bakery was also enlarged so
the bakers would have more work
area. Now that the bakers can all
work at the same time, the bakery
operates only one shift, yet it pro
duces more food than it did when
operating under two shifts, James
Buchan, manager of Duncan bakery,
said.
“The bakery addition cost
$529,993,” Smith said.
“This cost includes building ex
penses for enlarging the bakery
room, and purchasing costs for new
equipment.
“Several mixing steam kettles, an
oven that has one and a half times the
capacity of the two older ovens, a
sweet goods production table and
bread-making equipment were
added to enable the bakery to keep
up with the growing food production
demands of Texas A&M University.
“Even though the new machinery
has decreased the amount of manual
labor needed, the same number of
workers are needed to handle the
increased production of pastries,”
Smith added.
“Pastry for 30,000 meals is pro
duced daily,” Buchan said- “Each
food department on campus esti
mates the demand for an item. For
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example, we usually produce 600 to
1,000 pies and 350 to 600 dozen
doughnuts daily,’
Every morning before the prod
ucts are sent out for delivery, the
bakers sample and rate them from
one to ten. if they think the product
is faulty, the item will be replaced by
an item that can be made quickly.
For example, a cake might be made
to replace the faulty item. Later, the
bakers would decide how they could
avoid waste by combining the faulty
item with another. A pie filling that
has too much sugar might be used for
a cobbler filling, Buchan said.
“It takes 12 to 14 people to operate
the bakery, Buchan said. “New
machinery has decreased production
time by six hours daily. Now workers
can devote more time to improving
the quality of our products.“
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