# How a Commercial Baker Scaled to 100 Million Without a Bakery

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Podcast: [Scaling Up with Fexingo: How Small Businesses Become Mid-Market Companies](https://stenobird.com/podcast/scaling-up-with-fexingo-how-small-businesses-become-mid-market-companies-7871589)
Published: 2026-06-07T15:57:58+00:00
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## Resource

In this episode of Scaling Up with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna explore the story of a commercial baker that grew from a home kitchen to $100 million in revenue without ever opening a retail bakery. The company, BakeSmart, used a 'ghost bakery' model — leasing unused commercial kitchen space in hotels and hospitals — to produce fresh goods for grocery chains. Lucas breaks down how they avoided real estate costs, why they targeted revenue per square foot instead of margin, and how a single contract with a regional supermarket chain triggered their growth spurt. Luna challenges the sustainability of a model that relies on underutilized kitchen infrastructure. The conversation touches on unit economics, capacity arbitrage, and the difference between bootstrapping and scaling on borrowed resource slack. #BakeSmart #GhostBakery #CommercialBaking #Scalability #CapacityArbitrage #UnitEconomics #Bootstrapping #FoodBusiness #GroceryChain #UnderutilizedAssets #BusinessGrowth #SmallBusiness #MidMarket #RevenuePerSquareFoot #KitchenIncubator #FexingoBusiness #BusinessPodcast #ScalingUp Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo

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