128 Opening Muskoka’s first dedicated Gluten-Free Facility with Stephanie Dunn from Beat the Wheat in Muskoka
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Stephanie Dunn
Co-Owner of The Pasta Shoppe by Beat the Wheat
When you think gluten-free, do you think flavour free? Texture free? Taste free?
I know I once did, until I started finding gluten-free options to my typical pastas & pastries that actually tasted BETTER than anything I could find at a conventional grocery store.
Yepp, it’s possible.
In today’s episode I am sitting down with Stephanie Dunn, the co-owner of Muskoka’s first dedicated Gluten Free Facility and Sit-Down Restaurant, The Pasta Shoppe.
The Pasta Shoppe by Beat the Wheat is the brainchild of owner’s Stephanie & her husband Adam.
Their shop features an incredible array of products ranging from fresh gluten free pastas, gluten free entrees, gluten free Breads & pastries.
As I mentioned earlier, The Pasta Shoppe by Beat the Wheat is the only restaurant in Muskoka that is 100% gluten-free and peanut-free - and though some critics may have worried that there wasn’t a large enough market for these types of products in canada’s cottage country, Steph and Adam have proved that that is just simply not true.
Especially when your gluten-free offerings are equally (or even more tasty) than the non-gluten-free counterparts.
Steph is soft spoken yet powerful with her words, and although her husband & co-founder Adam was unable to join - I know you’re going to love hearing how the idea for a gluten-free shop came to be, why they settled on Bracebridge as a location, how they maintain a strong rapport with their community and their customers, why no market is TOO small or too defined, how to get scrappy with your marketing, and so much more.
p.s. I mentioned that this is the FINAL episode of the Bracebridge Series, but in fact there is 1 more next week!
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Mentioned in the show…
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Robinson’s General Store in Dorset
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Met at Fanshaw College
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Worked at Muskoka Natural Food Market
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Getting their product into Sobey’s
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The challenges of a seasonal business
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BIA Meetings in Muskoka
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