New Developments & Announcements 5-18-09

As some of you may have seen, we're still revamping the Baking Demos at our stores. Our apologies to any of our customers or visitors if there wasn't a demo when it was scheduled on the calendar. So far we've had to "butt heads" a bit with the mall operators to try to get this to work. Here's the recent lowdown on whats happening:

1. We have established regular locations that will allow us to host the demos on a more consistent basis. This means that the demos (unless changes are noted) should be at the same following locations in each mall whenever they are scheduled:

• Walter Mart Makati - 5th Floor Activity Center
• Walter Mart North EDSA/Munoz - Outside Simply Bread/Pasti on Ground Floor
• Pergola Mall Paranaque - Hallway between Simply Bread and Kopi Roti
• Starmall EDSA-Shaw - 2nd Floor Activity Center
• Victory Central Mall Caloocan - Inside our original location

Notice the absence of Robinsons Galleria in the list. For the time being, until we finish negotiating with the mall management, we would advise our customers to head to Starmall EDSA-Shaw's 2nd Floor Activity Center to see the Baking Demos.

2. We have added, in addition to the daily staff demos on chocolate lollipop and Baking Demos by suppliers, a new program at the stores called [M.Y.C.] Mold Your Chocopops. This program incorporates a group set of items and will have active participation by our customers in making their own chocolate lollipops (or chocopops for short). Our goal is to show our customers that chocolate making need not be difficult.

3. We have also added Chef Orly Pancho to our lineup of guests to host our Baking Demos. He has over 15 years of experience in the foodservice industry and specializes in breads, pastries, and other baked goods. He has previously worked with Delifrance as their R&D.