The bulk of our work to make 17 North Main Street into The Blue Rooster Bakery & Café entails building the foundation, walls, and roof to enclose our full-function European bread bakery. Bob's training and work experience in Ireland provided a firm starting point for his "wants and needs" for the bakery space.

Bob's vision is a well-organized space with each piece of equipment in the optimal spot to support high-level productivity from each baker and the bakers' helper as well -- more than 20 pieces of equipment in all.

With the Blue Rooster's concept of making a wide variety of products (breads, pastries, tarts, quiches, cupcakes, and cookies) we need a range of mixers, work surfaces, specialized tools like the laminator (vital to the production of flaky, buttery croissant), and of course, the ovens. Breads further require deck ovens with steam injection to develop the crust to the right level of thickness and chewiness. Tarts and pastries, quiche and cupcakes require convection ovens, more like the ovens we all have at home.

So, to produce consistently high quality product, the ovens are key. After much research and discussion with a range of artisan bakers, Bob selected Doyon ovens. We have kitchen installers Singer Equipment Co.  who are expert at moving a new food business from vision and concept to reality. Donna and Ed, our team at Singer, are taking each piece to position it to meet Bob's requirements, working closely with our General Contractor, Mike Toth. Together, we are all working to have everything on site, installed, and inspected with time to spare to meet our Grand Opening Week.

Once we open the doors, you will see proof of how the bakery kitchen is working with our WALL OF BREAD.

When you enter the Blue Rooster, take time to swing by the retail room before your meal and you will see the full array of breads, rolls, pastries and other treats that the bakers are offering that day. There will be a core set offered each day with rotating specialty breads each week. Look for the Walnut Apricot bread --- one of my favorites! It is delicious warm out of the oven or lightly toasted with a touch of butter. You will surely come up with your own favorite before too long!

 

 

What building project doesn't need to save money and do the job ASAP? The Blue Rooster is no exception!

Once we had the township go-ahead and all the trailing reviews and approvals, we put the building project out to bid and selected Mike Toth. Mike has a long list of satisfied clients in Cranbury and the surrounding area. We anticipate making that list longer upon successful completion of the Blue Rooster project.