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BAKER’S CHOICE • EASTERN CREEK QUARTER • 159 ROOTY HILL ROAD SOUTH, EASTERN CREEK

Let’s eat fresh at Baker’s Choice

Whether you’re wanting bread, cakes, or hot food, there’s no better place to get it than your local bakery. At Eastern Creek Quarter, there’s no doubt that Baker’s Choice should be your go-to.

With a long family history in the baking industry, it’s no surprise that Baker’s Choice manager, Tammy Tu, is the best in the business.

“My dad was born in Vietnam and had to leave because of the war, eventually residing in New Zealand. From there he started in the baking industry over 30 years ago, opening his first bakery in New Zealand before migrating over to Australia and opening more bakeries throughout western Sydney,” she said.

“Baking is ingrained in our family with my brother and sister also owning their own bakeries in western Sydney.”

And it’s this family orientation that extends to their customers, helping Ms Tu and her staff to not only provide the best food, but also the best customer service.

“Having a relationship with our customers is an important aspect in our everyday operations. The smell that wafts out of our shop also helps with bringing in the customers!” Ms Tu said.

“We have staff coming instore every night from midnight to start the process of baking fresh bread for our customers, so it’s fresh daily for our customers.”

In fact, it’s their friendly service and relationships with their regular customers that the business prides itself on.

“Although we don’t know all our loyal customers by name, we know many of them by their friendly smiles and we love knowing that our fresh products keep our customers coming back time and time again,” Ms Tu said.

Head to Baker’s Choice for all your bakery needs. Or see their full menu available on Menulog.

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WW43971 WITH BOB GREEN WESTERN SYDNEY BUSINESS CENTRE • 0490 251 615

It’s time to do some much-needed housekeeping in your business

It’s the beginning of April, the start of the last quarter of the financial year.

Time to do some housekeeping.

For those doing their own record keeping, you need to start chasing down outstanding debts. Get the clients/ customers to pay their outstanding bills so that you can pay yours. This applies not only to your everyday customers, but to government departments. State, Commonwealth and most local governments have rules to ensure that small businesses get paid on time.

My experience with the other debtors in small businesses is that these debtors can be quite “forgetful” and need to be regularly reminded. Be the squeaky wheel to get that oil. Check out your accounting/bookkeeping software. Some have a system of automatically generating reminder emails based on parameters you set for each customer.

If you have an accountant or bookkeeper doing the work for you, still check the outstanding debts and ask questions where you think you need.

If you have payroll, check what you have been paying to whom, correct award, level etc. Has all the Super been paid on their behalf. Make sure all the PAYG has been paid to the Tax Department. Get ready to do the iCare returns for actual and (forward) estimated wages etc.

Check to make sure you are properly insured. Time to talk to your broker and see if there are things you can do to reduce the premiums.

Do a slips, trips and falls assessment of your working areas and the places the public enter to make sure they are safe.

If you want expert help with this, go to the Business Connect website, look for the Western Sydney Business Centre advisors and book one of them or call on 4721 5011.

I also provide advice to NDIS providers.