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    Glendale News Press
    LATimes.com
    April 19 2004

    Back to baking in Glendale

    Glendale family returns to city where bakery business started, with a
    new business on Central Avenue.

    By Ryan Carter, News-Press


    NORTHWEST GLENDALE - When Shakeh Mgerdichians had to move her small
    bakery from Glendale to Reseda five years ago, she and her customers
    hoped that one day she would come back. And now, they have returned.

    Mignon Bakery & Café recently opened at 205 N. Central Ave. with an
    expanded menu and hopes of doing healthy business with the nearby
    office working population and residential neighborhoods just to the
    west of the business.

    "I always had in my mind to find a location in Glendale," she said.
    "I never gave up on this city. I am so happy to be back with my old
    customers."

    Mgerdichians and her husband Garoush, both immigrants from Iran and
    of Armenian descent, started their bakery in 1990 out of an
    800-square-foot space on Stocker Street. Mgerdichians, who did not
    have a background in baking, took classes to learn how to prepare
    pastries. Eventually, sales began to increase to the point that the
    couple could cater to Middle Eastern, European and traditional
    American tastes in baked goods. They needed to expand. By the late
    1990s, they found a larger location in Glendale, but Mgerdichians
    said their landlord on Stocker was demanding they renew their lease
    or leave, and the new spot was still being constructed. An option
    opened up in Reseda on Vanowen Street, so they moved their business
    there. It is still there.

    Inside the new business, wall murals carry a French theme, and
    everything from raspberry mousse to petit fruit tarts await customers
    like works of art in a museum.

    In contrast to the bakery in Reseda, which is a more traditional
    bakery, offering mainly breads, the new bakery also offers an
    expanded menu of sandwiches, smoothies, espressos, teas and coffees.
    She also designs wedding cakes.

    She acknowledged her bakery is not the only one in Glendale. "I never
    think of these bakeries as competition because I'm too busy doing
    everything I can to bring in my own customers," she said.
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