Miss Grace Victor is the managing Director of Pastry Batter, a bakery outfit that majors in cakes, snacks and small-chops. An indigene of Akwa Ibom but born and brought up in Somolu area of Lagos State, holder of Ordinary National Diploma {OND} in Business administration, Akwa-Ibom State Polytechnic. She was caught by our correspondent’s lens while peddling her pastries to offices within the community as she narrates her passion, challenges and vision while berating young girls selling their bodies to men for a living.
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She is quite stunning and would appease most men with her petit stature and probably would have made it even lesser competition in the world of “runs girls or hustling” as often referred but detest such life despite growing up in one of the toughest environments to raise children in Lagos. She said her passion for pastries started while in secondary school where she was always patronizing a lady selling pastries to students. Noting that on each occasion she bought the pastries she was commending the lady and within herself believing that she could do better someday owing to her creative nature.
After OND, she proceed to learn baking and today she has been able to build her brand and enjoying few patronages within and outside Lagos state. She acknowledges that the baking world is of a continuous learning as it evolves on daily basis with new improvements. Currently she uses her home as her office and bakery which she thinks might be part of her challenges of not getting enough orders to sustain the business as she deeps her hand into her capital to sustain, when there is break in orders hence, creating the means of not of running out of funds . In bridging the gap, she has started what one may call community service as she bakes and take to offices within the community which she says is an eye opener for her business.
Her vision is to build an acceptable brand in the pastry industry in the nearest future as she accepts bakery as her new career and willing to make good living from it as she confirms that so far the stress of the business is rewarding. On why she is not following the trend of girls hustling, she vehemently condemned the act, while noting that there are a lot of other services any serious minded girl could get engaged in for a living rather than sell her body as says that the problem with most of the girls today is as a result of their shortsightedness as life is not all about grooving and using the latest gadgets in vogue today but where you want to be in future.
The Alimosho Mail Newspaper uses this medium to promote young CEOs and solicits your supports for them through patronage; as we believe it’s a way of correcting the anomalies the society faces with today. To contact Pastry Batter follow her on these social media handles: www.facebook.com/pastrybatter Instagram: @Pastrybatter.
