AFFLUENCE@ N HIS O 53 - Sunday, Aprit 22, 1990 - North Shore News % INFLUENCE N WORD Bread Garden's Cameron Watt teiis the secret to On your staff training philosophy: “The key with people today is you want to treat them the same way you would like to be treated. My position is no more important than anyone else’s. I’m here to help coach — not to teach. My job is to help develop the best people we can so we can produce the finest, freshest quality product in as quickly a time as possible.”’ Despite the Bread Garden’s suc- cess, would you consider it % risk?: “The restaurant business is always tisky. How you safeguard your operation is to have experts in dif- ferent areas. For example, we have an interior design team and an ar- chitect. We really spend a lot of time thinking about our concepts iii HA TT ong «od phots Nell Lucanta ALISON WATT and 79-month-old Jesse (ake time out from a busy schedule to play in their Pemberton Heights home. Watt franchises cafe chain From page 52 for the ultimate an “comfort cubsine’': freshly-baked cinnamon knots smothered in maple-tiutter syrups, an endless list af same-dity baked bread. innovative salads, pastas, quiches aid cappucetta, Hue Watt cringes whenever the word yupple is nentioned, “Gh God Md hate to be desenib- edo as yuppie, That would really offend our customers. Certainty lows of young afflucit peaple use ws, but yuppie is the wrong kind of word, | Uke to chiak cf natural, homey, comfortable, atitede...” Yuprie of not, the Sread Garden has been so successful that clyht more cafes are being planned for Vietorda, Seamie aod, possibly, Coluary of Edinonton in the nest four yours, ‘The youngest of five children and gow a Itisband and fates of ao 1anonthold son, Wat, 30, can claim credit for much of the rend Garden's sucess since he wad the Vancouver-bisecd company Spectres Food Carp. teok coutrol of the cafe ote year age. Cspectes ako owns aod opeestes the Gallery + NURSING B77 CARING EXPERIENCED STAFF » ANs « LPNs e Aides « Homomasors « Live-ins 274 HOURS A DAY DRAKE MEDOX 987.0861 HEALTH SERVICES , HOMECARE. | Cafe, the English Bay Calc, Mile- stones, the (wo Keg Hoathouses and PoS.'s Restaurants), This month Spectra opened a new 6S-seut Wread Garden on Robson and Sute in Vancouver's West End, und Watt hopes the three cifes (inchuding the Gallery Cafe) will achieve sales of mare than 36 milion this year. And that's even with the added com. pethion. In the past two years the Bread Garden has dost its moanapoly on late-night dining: at least two 24- hour cafe/deils have opened in the tren aod Iwo new restaurants have opened across the street. But iread Garden sales continue to climb, “The exten competition hasn't hurt us. declares Watt, One reason for the cate's endur- ing popularity is the consistently high quality of food itolfers. “Heaple like to come it on a Wednesday for, say, i brend pid: ing, and come bask one ‘Thurs day and krow they cue have the same thing. That's sa linportuse din our biesteaa, he ways Dery single day Che Coad fas to be the sane as th wos the day before. ARDAGH Having worked in the food business Cor years -- with Canada Safeway, as co-owner of Dun darave Deli and Pos Burnaby restaurant =~ Watt lit witnessed a taajor SIE in people's enting habits from large-portioned, col- ofless globs of meat ‘i potatoes to smaller, deaner, healthier teal, And the Bread Garden shawerl up right on gue to capitadize on Cat changiisg marked “People are way more educated today than they were 20 years nfo about the kind ef fod they eat” says Walt. ‘The Ratnon sce Hread Guitden wilh carry on the tradition of the Original Kitsiling cafe, says Watt, as wlll future Gutlets. tle denies that by opening new franchises the Iread Gaiden will be shedding its Ralph Caueen inape for ou MeDarsald's tag listed, “That's one of the sgariest things about espuenditye a pure thenbar conceps. adendtee Wats, This concept will have great sic. couse the future as long ay we temember the ibings that one the Iiread Garden a great place to yo.’ HUNTER TURNER Baristers & Sokestorns IMPAIRED DRIVING fa Tad het, eth ee Lao 1986-4366) ws | 300 1404 CLONGSGDALE, NORTH VANCOUVER EC and making plans for the future.’* Who is responsible for the Bread Garden's recipes?: ‘‘Linda Meinhardt should be credited for a lot of the Bread Garden's success. She’s fantastic with food. She built a business where people come back because of the quality of the food.” What, apart fram the food, makes the Bread Garden such a popular spot?: ‘‘We're not dealing with any alcohol and smoking is not allowed. I think people come to us because cf the natural, healthy feeling they get from being here,”” What is the most difficult part of your job?: ‘‘it’s the hours, some- times. They can be as much as 70 hours per week, seven days a week, if that’s what's required. Some- times we don’t sit down to eat dinner until midnight — by the time I roll into bed I’m dead. And I'm usually on the road again at 6:45 a.m.” The favorite part of your job?: “Dealing with people — staff and customers. I love people. 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