 Baking For You
398-400 Cumbernauld Road
Glasgow
tel: 0141 554 1549 
Baking For You is a busy bakery shop that has been successfully trading in the east end of Glasgow since the early 70's. The shop built its reputation on their quality hand made products baked on the premises and sold to customers over the counter at reasonable cost. Until recently, the fresh selection of hot and cold rolls, pies, soup, toasties and cakes were for takeaway. Now, the business has expanded through to the premises next door and this will provide a traditional tearoom where customers can sit in and enjoy what they sell over the counter.  Alexander McNeill grew up in the east end of Glasgow and started the bakery in 1972 with his first shop near Glasgow Royal Infirmary. The business later moved to Duke Street before finally settling at 400 Cumbernauld Road. His son Raymond helped in the back of the shop at weekends when he was a teenager and continued to work full time when he left school. When Alexander retired, Raymond carried on the business and expanded it with a bigger bakery and a more extensive range of quality hand made bakery goods for the tearoom, takeaway and for wholesale. Bakery goods for takeaway will now be available from the tearoom at 398 Cumbernauld Road. The shop at 400 Cumbernauld Road is now the bakery and wholesale distribution point. There can be up to five staff at any one time working in the premises. This will increase to the demands of the tearoom. They do not close the bakery for long with a night shift starting at 10.30pm preparing products for the early morning opening. Their speciality is hand made traditional Scottish rolls which gets delivered to shops, cafes and snack bars throughout Glasgow and as far as Cumbernauld. They are busy enough to have a van driver out delivering full-time. Raymond McNeill is a fully qualified chef and he will be doing more food lines and traditional Scottish fare for the new tea room.  As the rolls come out of the oven, the warm smell of freshly baked bread welcomes you as you enter the shop. A popular choice for customers is their roll with Lorne sausage locally sourced from Bruce lorimer & Sons Butchers. By giving people what they want, Baking For You continues to offer the personal touch. If customers want cherry scones, they will make cherry scones.
Baking For You is open 7 days a week, Monday to Saturday (7am-5pm), Sunday (7am-3pm)
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