Open for just seven months, Pushkin’s Bakery has met with such pent-up demand for its gluten-free baked goods that owners Danny and Olga Turner are already turning a profit on their business.
And, the Turners plan to be selling their goodies at Whole Foods in Davis by October.
“We were really worried about cross-contamination,” Olga Turner told me. “We can’t be with other products in the bakery. They know that, and we know that. We didn’t know how we were going to work together, but they are allowing us to install our own display case in their bakery. It’s going to be just gluten-free Pushkin’s products, and we’re going to deliver daily.”
The Turners are not bakers by training, and neither expected to open such a business when they set out for college. Olga Turner earned a bachelor’s degree in business finance and risk management from Sacramento State, while Danny graduated from the University of California, Davis with degrees in psychology and English.
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