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Speaker 1: I am all in again Luke's Diner with Scott Patterson

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Speaker 1: and iHeartRadio podcast. Hey everybody, Scott Patterson, I am all

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Speaker 1: in Podcast one eleven productions. iHeartMedia Radio, I heart Podcasts.

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Speaker 1: Luke's Diner episode with the one and only Beatrice Porto.

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Speaker 1: She is the owner proud owner of Porto's Bakery and

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Speaker 1: Cafe in Burbank. Welcome Beatrice, Nice to have you on,

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Speaker 1: Just really happy to have you. And we've just recapped

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Speaker 1: season two, episode two of Gilmore Girls, Hammers and Veils,

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Speaker 1: and we'll be discussing food served, the wedding and showers

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Speaker 1: and the wedding cakes and that kind of thing. But listen,

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Speaker 1: you know as well as as I do. And you've

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Speaker 1: catered some of our Gilmore events at the studio, so

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Speaker 1: I know your work and I I've gained a little

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Speaker 1: bit of weight from an it's so good. You know,

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Speaker 1: the shows of family and community and it's just like Porthos.

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Speaker 1: How important it's that same feeling of warmth and belonging

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Speaker 1: in your bakery, I.

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Speaker 2: Would think is everything. I think that's what as a

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Speaker 2: business sets and support. So the owners are my brother Rold,

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Speaker 2: my sister Margrita and myself. You know, my parents passed away.

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Speaker 2: We took up the torch. But talking about wedding cakes,

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Speaker 2: talking about family, right, I have people that come in

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Speaker 2: with a picture of their mother's cake and they say,

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Speaker 2: you know, many many years ago, you made my mother's

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Speaker 2: wedding cake, and then you make my baptism, my communion,

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Speaker 2: all my birthdays, and that it's my turn. So we're

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Speaker 2: in a business of creating memories. That's what we do.

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Speaker 2: We create memories, especially through cakes. It's it's something that

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Speaker 2: it never stops, it just keeps going, and it's a

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Speaker 2: great business to be in.

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Speaker 1: It's one of the great things about Los Angeles. There

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Speaker 1: are many many businesses like yours from people that came

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Speaker 1: from other places. Yes, and through family love and support

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Speaker 1: built up these generational businesses of high quality food items

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Speaker 1: or materials, what have you. It's one of the great

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Speaker 1: features of our city. And you're you're a shining star

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Speaker 1: in that city. Thank you, Gilmore. Girls love pop tarts,

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Speaker 1: red vines, donuts, cover your ears, donuts, coffee.

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Speaker 2: We did donuts before?

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Speaker 1: Oh sure, No and Rory walked into Portos. Okay, what

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Speaker 1: pastry cake would you recommend to them?

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Speaker 2: Oh? My God, they would definitely have to have the

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Speaker 2: cheese rolls, right. I mean I have people that come

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Speaker 2: not just from la we have sheds from all over

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Speaker 2: the world and they just love it because it's about

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Speaker 2: this simplicity and you know how clean the ingredients are.

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Speaker 2: There's only three ingredients in that patry, so they have

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Speaker 2: to try that. And then our number one sellar cake

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Speaker 2: is the milk and berries, which is a translated with

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Speaker 2: you know, with fruit, with fresh fruit berries. So those things,

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Speaker 2: if we sell those two things, we can really stop

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Speaker 2: selling anything everything else that would keep us in business.

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Speaker 1: So those those are your superstar skews, those two potatables.

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Speaker 2: Of course everybody can relate to avable. Who doesn't know

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Speaker 2: potatoes and beef.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's amazing. But you have so many other

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Speaker 1: menu items. Yes, yeah, I have a little coffee company

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Speaker 1: and we have our superstars too. I think every business does.

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Speaker 1: It's amazing. So coffee. Speaking of coffee, that's it's everything

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Speaker 1: at my diner, Lukes Diner, Which porthos pastry do you

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Speaker 1: think would pair perfectly with a cup of coffee?

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Speaker 2: We have so many things. It could be the cheese

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Speaker 2: roll number one, it could be the guava cheese, or

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Speaker 2: it can be a scone. Never had our scones. I

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Speaker 2: invite you to come in and try it. It's out

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Speaker 2: of this world. We use all the rime from the

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Speaker 2: oranges that we squeeze to make first orange es. We

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Speaker 2: caramelize it and that's one of my favorite pastries. Scone,

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Speaker 2: a crawberry scone. But it is that orange says that

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Speaker 2: that little piece of caramelized skin of the orange makes

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Speaker 1: All right? So this week I recapped Hammers and Veils,

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Speaker 1: where Suki plans an engagement party for Max and Laureli

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Speaker 1: and the entire town of Stars Hollows is invited. If

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Speaker 1: you were catering a community wide engagement party like that,

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Speaker 1: what kind of baked goods would you serve for that?

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Speaker 2: I mean again, you know, we have so many beautiful pastries,

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Speaker 2: but after almost fifty years in the business, there's never

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Speaker 2: a cartering event that I do that doesn't include the

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Speaker 2: cheese rolls, the juaba cheese, the meat pies, the chicken

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Speaker 2: and bananas, the potato bols and everything else. It's an

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Speaker 1: Do you have a every option? Can people walk? Can

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Speaker 1: you can you call us how what's the range, what's

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Speaker 2: For like wedding cakes for example, that's a big thing.

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Speaker 2: I mean before COVID, we were making on a weekend

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Speaker 2: that's all. They deliver wedding and send other cakes.

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Speaker 1: Sixty two day, sixty two cakes.

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Speaker 2: On the weekend Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Check it out.

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Speaker 2: There's no place I can do that can of My daughter,

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Speaker 2: my sister are like twenty five degreaters, seven thousand square

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Speaker 2: feet of refrigeration and special things to make all those cakes.

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Speaker 2: And now you know, the delivery withold range anywhere from

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Speaker 2: thirty five dollars to what we took them to Tabacula.

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Speaker 2: But the closest ones would be fifteen dollars, you know

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Speaker 2: that it would jump to thirty five dollars. But that's

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Speaker 2: a big responsibility delivery a wedding cake. We're not talking

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Speaker 2: about the regular delivery service that come in and pick

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Speaker 2: up stuff that we have, you know, like everybody else.

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Speaker 2: Wedding cakes is another that's something else.

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Speaker 1: So what's different about a wedding cake versus a regular cake?

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Speaker 1: What are the ingredients?

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Speaker 2: The regular gig is just the flat cake we're talking about.

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Speaker 2: A wedding cake would be three tiers. I mean we're

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Speaker 2: taking cakes of Mulholland Drive and while you driving up

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Speaker 2: does within four tiers. Cake through that and really it's

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Speaker 2: that you hit traffic a few times and then you're late,

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Speaker 2: nothing you can do. Some people were very understanding. Most

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Speaker 2: fries get some of them were like so angry, and

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Speaker 2: think I grew white hairs during the process. Because I

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Speaker 2: was in charge of deliveries for many, many years.

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Speaker 1: So let's talk about baking a little bit. Those extra

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Speaker 2: I mean, it's something like my bread for bread for example,

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Speaker 2: you have to rise some bread the yeast the night before, right,

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Speaker 2: but when it gets hot, when it's really hot, you

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Speaker 2: you know, it's so just science that if you mess

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Speaker 2: there's steps that they follow depending on the weather. Water

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Speaker 2: so you know you have it in the refrigerator. You

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Speaker 2: give you what you need the next day. But I

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Speaker 2: think baking is it's harder, and making pastes harder than

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Speaker 2: cooking because when you're cooking and you oversold something, there's

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Speaker 2: no way of recuperating. So there's measurement, there's precision, and

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Speaker 2: everything is not in steps. For example, a wedding cake.

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Speaker 2: People think that a wedding cake is made in one day,

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Speaker 2: but it's not really. I mean, it gets baked. Let's

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Speaker 2: say the wedding cakes for a Saturday, it gets baked

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Speaker 2: Like a fourtier cake for example, when you bring it

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Speaker 2: It's like a building. It moves and you have to

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Speaker 1: Are there certain ingredients that you source locally that are

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Speaker 1: fresh or game?

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Speaker 2: Yes, So all the fruits, all our fruits, berries, all

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Speaker 2: the berries that are going those cakes we source locally.

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Speaker 2: We have bendor the family owned farms that we work with,

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Speaker 2: we get the fruit. Every day, we get fruit every day,

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Speaker 2: we get milk, every day, we get butter. We don't

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Speaker 2: left over. So what a solution with that store anything?

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Speaker 2: We're not a storage facility.

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Speaker 1: How many employees do you have over there?

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Speaker 2: Each baker has around three hundred employees.

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Speaker 1: Wow.

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Speaker 2: Plus. Then we have our you know, marketing department. We

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Speaker 2: also have an HR department, We have an accounting department.

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Speaker 2: Doors are in a separate facility and you know those

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Speaker 1: Among Have you ever been approached by a you know,

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Speaker 1: a food corporation to take you national.

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Speaker 2: All the time?

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Speaker 1: Right?

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Speaker 2: My brother, if my brother would be he would leave

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Speaker 2: the business today. And when he has people coming from China,

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Speaker 2: from Thailand, from Hong Kong wanted us, wanted us to

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Speaker 2: go there and to replicate what we've done here. But

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Speaker 2: We're always trying to catch up.

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Speaker 1: Let me ask you this, how do you so your suppliers'

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Speaker 1: costs go up? Especially now? How do you handle that?

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Speaker 1: Do you raise how careful are you to raise prevents.

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Speaker 2: We're very because you know, we think one of the

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