Southwest Messenger - May 5th, 2019

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Grove City Area Chamber of Commerce
To create a positive environment for the development and success of business
Daily Bread’s one carb buns are “bun-derful”
Daily Bread is one of our many Grove City Chamber
Farmers’ Market vendors, but with a particularly interesting
product: gluten free bread that has only one net carb.
People go wild over these buns! Recently we learned that
our good friend and the Chambers’ Small Business Advisor,
Nancy Stoll, helped Daily Bread get their business off the
ground, so we decided to learn more.
We sat down with Carmen Richardson, owner of Daily
Bread and her daughter and partner Elizabeth Beckley, to
find out how they got the idea, how Nancy helped them, and
what’s in those buns!
Richardson started off by explaining exactly what their
product is.
“We have a sandwich bun that is not bread,” said
Richardson. “We call it, the ‘Omega Bun.’ There are no
grains, no flour, and no yeast. There’s no sugar, nuts, soy,
or oils! We’ve gotten amazingly positive comments from people
who have tried low carb buns. One doctor says he’s tried
every low carb bun around and ours is by far the best. It’s
less than one net carb per bun.”
Richardson explained the creation of the bun came when
her husband got a bad checkup at the doctor, and they decided
to get healthy — but they needed bread!
“Two years ago my husband went in for a checkup and
wasn’t doing great,” she said. “His cholesterol was high, he
was pre-diabetic, had high blood pressure, you name it. So
we decided to make a change. We both like things simple,
so I said, okay, we’re going to cut out all grains, and all
sugar, and it worked! We went for a couple weeks and I realized,
I need bread! I need a sandwich. I started searching
online and I didn’t like anything that I found, nothing
seemed like a really good substitute. So I started playing
around in the kitchen and it took me weeks, no, months, to
perfect the recipe.”
Then Beckley leans in, noting that this is when she got
involved because she knew from the first taste that her
mom had done something really important.
“I tried them, and I thought, ‘Wow, mom, we have to do
something with these, you’ve made something really special
— other people would love these!’”said Beckley.
Beckley explained that she then did her research. She
had heard about people who help with small businesses,
and that’s how they found themselves meeting with Nancy
Stoll — who offers all of our Chamber members the opportunity
to meet with her at no cost.
Nancy Stoll, is a certified business advisor with the
Small Business Development Center and has been advising
for years. She explained to us that she started advising because
she loves to be able to see her work in the community.
“I’ve been doing it since 1986 because I just love business,
it is my passion,” said Stoll. “In helping others succeed,
I feel that I have left a small thumbprint on that life,
on that business and the community as well. Some small
thing that once I’m not needed any more reflects, ‘Nancy’s
been here!’”
Beckley and Richardson reflected, “One of the first things
we did was to set up a meeting with Nancy Stoll. She was
one of the very first steps in getting us off the ground. She
Elizabeth Beckley (left) and Carmen Richardson of Daily Bread.
gave us a lot of guidance and direction about what to
do before starting to sell our product and that really
helped us. She gave us fantastic information on what
it takes to start a business and she warned us about
things to be cautious of. It’s nice that she was our
first fan, really!”
Added Stoll, “They wanted to make sure everything
they were doing was compliant with the State
of Ohio so, I took care of the basic legal structure,
making sure they had everything in place that would
help them with limited liability. Over the course of
several meetings, their legal responsibilities, defined
their target market and more.”
Richardson had her own memory of the meeting —
at first they thought Nancy hated their buns.
“We met with her initially and she tasted the bun
really timidly — I thought she didn’t like them,” said
Richardson. “Then all of a sudden she stopped and
said, ‘I haven’t eaten bread in seven years because it
upsets my stomach, but this is fantastic!’
Beckley nods in agreement. She said she knows it
sounds kind of exaggerated, but people really do have
that reaction.
“There have been events where people have
hugged us and have even cried because they’re allergic
or sensitive to gluten and now they can eat bread
again!” said Beckley.
See BUNS, page 12
The amazing Omega Bun sandwich buns at Daily Bread.