{"id":51122,"date":"2019-11-12T14:08:38","date_gmt":"2019-11-12T14:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/?p=51122"},"modified":"2019-11-12T14:08:38","modified_gmt":"2019-11-12T14:08:38","slug":"danish-bakery-expanding-and-creating-new-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/2019\/11\/12\/danish-bakery-expanding-and-creating-new-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"Award winning Danish bakery expands, creating new jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A Pontcanna based Danish bakery is expanding to a new premises in Penarth and offering apprenticeships in baking<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2019\/11\/IMG_1781.jpeg\" alt=\"Picture of BROD's current premises in Pontcanna\" class=\"wp-image-51131\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2019\/11\/IMG_1781.jpeg\" alt=\"Picture of BROD's current premises in Pontcanna\" class=\"wp-image-51131\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption>BR\u00d8D&#8217;s current location on Wyndham Rd, Pontcanna, is a popular culinary attraction<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Award winning Danish bakery, BR\u00d8D, is capitalising upon its success in Pontcanna by expanding into a second premises in Penarth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The venture is currently recruiting for two positions at the original store, while the new location will soon need staffing too.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This means that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedanishbakery.co.uk\/\">the business<\/a> is bringing numerous jobs to the area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2019\/11\/IMG_1788.jpeg\" alt=\"BROD new premises in Penarth\" class=\"wp-image-51129\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2019\/11\/IMG_1788.jpeg\" alt=\"BROD new premises in Penarth\" class=\"wp-image-51129\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption>Preparations for BR\u00d8D&#8217;s new location on Glebe St, Penarth, look well underway, with the wooden boarding already up<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>There is also a baking apprenticeship, which will give young people the skills to become professional bakers, Danish style, and perhaps go on to win awards of their own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMy dream and goal when I started this business was to bring more artisan bakers to the industry\u201d said Betina Skovbro, BR\u00d8D\u2019s founder and owner, in a recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedanishbakery.co.uk\/news\">news update<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While hospitality apprenticeships in Cardiff <a href=\"https:\/\/statswales.gov.wales\/Catalogue\/Education-and-Skills\/Post-16-Education-and-Training\/Further-Education-and-Work-Based-Learning\/Lifelong-Learning-Wales-Record\/learningprogrammesapprenticeships\">rose 126%<\/a> between academic years 2016\/17 and 2017\/18, that only represents a numeric rise of 75 roles in a city of over 300,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In such a context, BR\u00d8D\u2019s yearly offering of an apprenticeship is undoubtedly good news for the Cardiff economy.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2019\/11\/IMG_0005.jpeg\" alt=\"Loaf of BROD\" class=\"wp-image-51132\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2019\/11\/IMG_0005.jpeg\" alt=\"Loaf of BROD\" class=\"wp-image-51132\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption>A loaf of BR\u00d8D<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Economics aside, BR\u00d8D also provides a gastronomic benefit to Cardiff by adding to its ever-increasing culinary diversity.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This has benefitted them in return, as it\u2019s their combination of authentic Danish cuisine and British cafe culture which pulls in the punters.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Professor Karin Wahl-Jorgeson, a director of Cardiff University and herself a Dane, said, \u201cmost Danish bakeries are just shops where you can pick up baked pastries.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBut BR\u00d8D is a British version of an increasingly popular model of bakery cafe where you can have pastries and a nice cup of coffee.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt has lots of delicious pastries that are just like the ones you get in Denmark, and that are impossible to find anywhere else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMy Danish cousin, who lived in Cambridge, would make special pilgrimages to BR\u00d8D and would bring home huge boxes of 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