Ex-Baker by Trade here. yes even the little shops are effectively mass production factories. Buy the ingredients in big pre-mixed sacks. add the right temp wat

Ex-Baker by Trade here. yes even the little shops are effectively mass production factories. Buy the ingredients in big pre-mixed sacks. add the right temp water and yeast into a big mixer and press go. drop that into a machine that cuts the right mass chunks out and shapes it ready for production line style dropping into tins and mounting in the proofer then into the oven. Typically they only have one actual baker, a few apprentices and often just unskilled laborers. actual "Artisan" bakeries are very rare and not terribly profitable unless in highly affluent areas.