Graduated in Technology and Administration, Jamal Cotait Filo, 61, owns the Broad Academy
When he started working at 14 as an office boy, Jamal Cotait Filo, 61 years old, did not imagine that after building a successful career in bank data such as Unibanco and Bank Boston, he would have put the apron to play in entrepreneurship as a baker. He graduated in technology and administration, Paraná retired in 2015 and decided to carry out the activity that was already a hobby in his free time, his main life project.
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After following a path of gastronomy and with an initial investment of $ 120,000, Jamal created the Bread Academy, House of Famad Broad in Paraíso, in the south of San Paolo, in 2016. With almost 10 years of activity, Jamal said that sales would last a short period and that then life would be enjoyed, but the company worked in order to open his plans to travel with his wife, also retired in his wife, Pension, also retired, also retired, also retired, also retired. Focus on the sale of bread professionally.
“My proposal was to have the bread gym for about 4 or 5 years because then my daughters would enter college, my wife would have retired and we would have enjoyed life, we traveled, etc. it happens that when she arrived in 2021, when she shot 5 and my daughters entered the college, the college entered the bread to sell the bread to decide to have continued to sell the bread.
With a growth of 20% of sales and an annual revenue scheduled for this year of $ 2.4 million, at the Academy of Bread, unlike conventional bakeries, all bread (25 types, total) are a natural fermentation, that is, without chemical additives and slower production process. Among the 4,000 tons of bread produced in the month, some stand out: the multigrão, the fig bread, the cocoa with blueberry, provolone, apricot and rosemary.
“Everything we do here is handmade. The only equipment we have is mechanical is the butter for the volume of the mass of the bread we do. When I decided to undertake, I wanted something small and personalized. The natural fermentation was what attracted me most, because they were healthy, of good quality”, says Jamal.
Flour, water and salt
The smell of fresh bread that invades the neighborhood is the best view card of the Broad Academy, according to Jamal. Even with only three ingredients, -Shoe, water and salt ensures that each bread is singular. “The name is the Academy of Bread, in the singular, because each bread is unique. This is the proposal. Each bread is modeled individually,” says the entrepreneur.
The Academy of Bread, which also works for orders, opens from 9:00 to 19:00 from Monday to Friday and from 9:00 to 17:00 on Saturday. In a short time he graduated every day at the door of the plant, the entrepreneur literally deals with the preparation of the bread by putting his hands dirty. On Sundays the home of bread does not work.
Jamal, who underlines that your business although it is a bread selling is not a bakery, thinks of expanding the Accademia del Bread. He said he wants to increase the current space of the house to have a greater production capacity and also studies a franchise model. Currently, the average Broad Academy ticket is $ 65 per person. The cheapest bread, a traditional Berette, costs $ 6 and the most expensive peppers with pupils, $ 52.
Source: Terra
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