The Split Tin Bakery: How a family run business has been successful for over 45 years

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They say hero’s come in many forms. Well today I am visiting the split tin bakery that has been serving the best instil community fresh baked goods for over 45 years. And has been in the same family for the entire time.

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00:00 It's very important to support your small shop.

00:03 If you don't support, you will lose them.

00:06 It's as simple as that.

00:08 And the thing is, for small businesses, our costs are going up and up and up.

00:12 And we obviously have to put our prices up.

00:15 We have to try and manage with everything, with the electricity costs.

00:22 And people may or may not know the flour costs have been astronomical,

00:27 especially since the war in Ukraine.

00:30 The flour went up massively.

00:33 But we try and keep our costs down. We do what we can.

00:38 They say heroes come in many forms.

00:41 Well, today I am visiting the Split Tin Bakery

00:44 that has been serving the Bristol community freshly baked goods for over 45 years

00:50 and has been in the same family for the entire time.

00:53 Let's chat to the bakery owner to find out more.

00:57 We are at the Split Tin Bakery, Redland, Bristol.

01:00 The tin was founded 45 years ago by my dad.

01:03 It's a family bakery.

01:06 I work here. My husband works here. Our son Harry, he works here.

01:10 My sister, she works in the shop.

01:13 And yeah, it's just a third generation now, family bakery.

01:17 It's great. I mean, we all work very well as a team.

01:21 We all get on very well.

01:24 I'm not saying we don't always see eye to eye on things, but family doesn't really.

01:29 But yeah, it's great. Yeah, and we're very proud that our son's now coming sometimes just to chat.

01:34 They buy things and they like to chat.

01:36 And you get to know your locals.

01:38 You worry about your little, like, elderly people.

01:41 And it's very much, we're very much community based here, us and all the other shopkeepers.

01:46 Yeah, we're a very close-knit community.

01:49 When my father started the business, I was nine years old.

01:52 And we have customers now that remember me when I was that small.

01:56 And yeah, it's great. Yeah. Yeah.

01:59 Yeah, we see people, you know, the kids growing up, going to school.

02:04 The cost of living crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic have massively impacted local businesses in the last few years.

02:13 Let's find out more about the impact on the Split Tin Bakery.

02:16 Very, very busy for us because we were obviously an essential.

02:20 It was also quite scary for us.

02:22 I'm not, you know, because we were all masked up.

02:25 My husband, we had all the perspex up, hand gel, and you was, everyone knows.

02:31 But yeah, I mean, we were very lucky that none of us actually caught COVID.

02:37 We actually caught COVID after the pandemic, if that makes sense.

02:41 When everything was, the fact that none of us actually went down with it was, we were very lucky.

02:47 Very lucky.

02:49 It is fair to say that the Split Tin Bakery has stood the test of time,

02:54 bringing deliciously fresh baked goods to the community for over 45 years,

02:59 with no sign of closing any time soon.

03:03 Thank you.

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