Green Fairy Pastries

Short and Sweet Green Fairy Pastries is a scratch bakery specializing in alcohol insfused petit fours. We also offer breakfast pastries and sandwiches, specialty cakes for any occasion, and a wide variety of other snacks and pastries. It is owned by pastry chef, entrepreneur, and mom, Jennifer Rogers. The bakery is in need of funding to move on to the next level and lease a brick and mortar store. Funds will go to renovatinting a 1,500 square foot space, purchasing equipment, buying opening inventory and supplies, and hiring staff. 






Detailed and Decadent Jennifer Rogers is a southern girl raised on scratch made home cooked meals. Long before farm to table was trending, her family havested and prepared fresh produce they grew themselves.  Every occasion was a reason for the family to come together and good, wholesome food prepared by loving hands. 

This love for food and community pushed Jennifer into a culinary career. She refined her skills at The Art Institute of Dallas to appeal to a broader audience and learn more about cuisine from other American regions as well as other countries. From here her passion in pastries was clear. The complexity, delicacy, and creativity drew her in and she was hooked. Not long after Green Fairy Pastries was invisioned. 


Jennifer worked in a wedding cake bakery, a pastry shop and even as an Executive Chef of a full service resturant all of which were individually owned small businesses. She now wants to make Green Fairy Pastries her center focus. 
 
Jennifer is investing $35,000 into this business venture. That would just cover equipment costs. Other costs would include rennovations coming in around $35,000, opening inventory at $2,300, liability insurance, licensing, utility deposits, and hiring two additional bakers $12,700. This is just a start. Jennifer will also be using her personal line of credit for day to day expenses until the bakery gets off the ground. 



A personal note from Chef J

As a mom I want to show my daughter that hard work and focus can get you where you want to go, but sometimes you have to ask for a little help. 

The support of our community is something I think is important. Starting a small, black female owned business in Arizona, in a deeply divided political climate, is bold, but a friend of mine recently dared me to be just that. So, here I am boldly and humbly asking for help to realize my dream so I can share my passion with others. 

I want use my business to support my community as well. In the short term I will offer basic cooking classes to college students as well as mommy and me classes. All products that are not sold will be donated to homeless shelters rather than thrown away at the end of the day.  

It takes time for a business, particularly one in the food industry, to become profitable. However, my long term goals are to donate a percentage of my profits annually to non- profit organizations such as The Human Rights Campaign and the Tucson chapter of the NAACP.