Business / Teenager baking up a storm in the Garret building
A NEW bakery venture has taken up residence in a well-known building a stone’s throw away from Lerwick’s Market Cross.
Zetland Bakery, which is operating from the bottom floor of the Garret building, has begun supplying sweet treats to local shops – with a plan to start producing sandwiches and wraps too.
There is also an aim to launch a takeaway service next year, offering extra products like soup and rolls.
The large building, which has the well-known ‘K’ boot sign on its sea-facing end, went up for sale last year.
The bakery is housed in the ground floor, in the kitchen which previously hosted the Phu Siam takeaway.
The brains behind the bakery venture is 17-year-old Logan Ruthven.
Outside of the baking he is getting some help from his dad Neil, an accountant who has bought the building.
His accountancy firm will have an office on the top floor – with the first floor currently available to be leased.
Logan, from Lerwick, said he has been interested in baking since he was about eight or nine years old.
“I’ve always been making stuff just in the house,” he said.
When he was going into secondary three he went to the Shetland college to start a course in hospitality.
Logan added that when he reached S5 he was not really enjoying school – and a chat with a pupil support teacher encouraged him to take his hospitality training to the next level.
He was taking on this hospitality training while also working in Lerwick establishment Fjara.
“I started working when I just turned 14 and I haven’t stopped really,” Logan added.
The teenager – who is using some of his own recipes which he has been using for years – said he should be taking the Zetland Bakery project “full-time” after the October holidays.
At the moment the bakery is providing supplies to Don Leslie’s and the Sound Service Station in Lerwick, as well as the Checkout in Scalloway and the Aith and Walls shops.
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