Camino Bakery Installs Cybake to Streamline Production 

Winston-Salem, North Carolina-based Camino Bakery has installed Cybake software to manage its three stores and wholesale operation, announces software producer Cybake.

Camino Bakery was created by Cary Clifford in 2007 and was inspired by her travels along Europe’s most ancient and longest pilgrimage route, the Camino de Santiago. 

Ever since, the bakery has gone from strength to strength, growing from one store to three, alongside a commissary kitchen and a thriving wholesale business. In 2018, long-term managers Lisa Warner and Jordan Poe-Crawford became co-owners.

Cybake is a cloud-based bakery management system used by retail and wholesale bakeries to automate and control everything from orders to invoicing, recipes, shop management, waste control, production, deliveries and more.

“It is back-end software where you put in all of your recipes, and it allows you to create production and packing sheets for all of your people in the back of house to know exactly what they need to make every day. That’s how we’re using it,” said Camino Bakery’s Cary Clifford. Before adopting Cybake, Camino Bakery ran production for its stores and wholesale operations using Google Sheets spreadsheets.

Clifford explains: “It worked okay. But it’s just super easy to put in an order on the wrong row. If you put that in the wrong row on Google Sheets, you’ve accidentally ordered, say, twenty loaves of wholemeal. You have all this wasted product, so that’s not happening anymore, which is fantastic. Our mistakes have just gone from, say, if they were at a hundred, they’re down to one now.”

Another reason Camino Bakery chose Cybake was the system’s ability to let wholesale customers make their orders online. Cybake gives each of the bakery’s customers their own customized product list telling them what items they have on standing order, what they have ordered before, when they ordered it, and more.