1 month ago
5
FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - After a twelvemonth and a fractional of pop-up vending, a Fresno-based concern proprietor is opening her long-awaited storefront successful Downtown Fresno to bring nutritious, saccharine treats to the Central Valley's "pup-stomers."
Ebony Brown is the "Leader of the Pack" of the Bentley's Barkery canine bakery team. She says she didn't commencement her concern with a culinary background, oregon adjacent the volition of making money.
"I similar to say, I've been preparing for this my full life," Brown said. "Secretly."
Brown says she was moving successful existent property erstwhile her beloved canine Bentley started feeling sick.
"He was having, like, a batch of receptor infections," Brown said. "'He had to person a surgery, and I was like, okay, however tin we halt this?'"
According to Brown, her veterinarian told her that Bentley's treats were the origin of his illness, prompting Brown to instrumentality a person look astatine the treats' ingredients.
"Some I could pronounce and immoderate I could not," Brown said.
While Brown says that she was not an experienced baker, she was a instrumentality of Martha Stewart and had already made a wont of collecting cooking materials and equipment.
Brown says that alternatively than region treats from Bentley's diet, she decided to enactment her instrumentality to usage and started making Bentley his ain treats.
Before long, Brown started participating successful pop-up events, including ArtHop successful Downtown Fresno - consistently selling out.
"It was a turning constituent for me," Brown said. "Imposter syndrome is inactive thing that I woody with - but it's usually defeated by the extremity of the time due to the fact that of the effect from the community."
Brown says acknowledgment to a loyal assemblage of customers, she's been capable to unfastened a storefront successful Downtown Fresno and she plans to dedicate a four-day solemnisation to the assemblage for helping marque it possible.
On Friday, Aug. 8, Brown plans to invited the neighbors and hold a ceremonial ribbon-cutting. Saturday volition beryllium lawsuit appreciation day, and connected Sunday customers volition beryllium invited to a friends and household time astatine the park.
"It's not my barkery," Brown said. I bash it for the community."
Bentley's Barkery is located astatine 1612 Fulton St. adjacent the Cultural Arts District Park.
