{"id":2397,"date":"2021-11-19T08:29:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-19T04:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/?p=2397"},"modified":"2021-11-25T08:44:16","modified_gmt":"2021-11-25T04:44:16","slug":"youth-enterprise-ibakery-cafe-is-an-evolving-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/2021\/11\/19\/youth-enterprise-ibakery-cafe-is-an-evolving-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Youth Enterprise iBakery Caf\u00e9 is an Evolving Business"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1qQO7x3wE6e_UtQHvNjLjSenQFrT8IbXF\/preview\" width=\"720\" height=\"394\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Journalism student Poojaraj Maniyeri reports on iBakery, a successful youth venture.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By Poojaraj Maniyeri<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SHARJAH \u2013 iBakery Caf\u00e9 is a youth enterprise that began as a home venture by two university students and is now a rising business.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was established as a home business in 2013 and the caf\u00e9 was opened in 2018. The sisters and joint owners, Asma and Amna Mohamed Safar, were university students when they first opened the business. They have graduated since then.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Specialty coffee, breakfast and desserts are available at the iBakery Caf\u00e9.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The owners supported each other to manage academics along with running the caf\u00e9. Amna said that \u201cas sisters, we always try to have each other\u2019s backs.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Amna said that in iBakery, \u201cwe always try to give people the experience of good comfort food with good coffee in a nice cozy place.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The owners managed every aspect in the caf\u00e9 themselves. Amna said that they oversaw \u201csetting the menu, designing the whole place, logo [and] packaging.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The caf\u00e9 closed for around a month at the beginning of the pandemic. They soon re-opened with the safety measures. Amna said that business began to pick up since then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Journalism student Poojaraj Maniyeri reports on iBakery, a successful youth venture. By Poojaraj Maniyeri SHARJAH \u2013 iBakery Caf\u00e9 is a youth enterprise that began as a home venture by two university students and is now a rising business.&nbsp; It was established as a home business in 2013 and the caf\u00e9 was opened in 2018. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2398,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,4,11],"tags":[19,33,17,45,48,25,53],"class_list":{"0":"post-2397","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-video","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-campus-news","8":"category-videos","9":"category-video-reports","10":"tag-alumni","11":"tag-aus","12":"tag-community","13":"tag-leisure","14":"tag-lifestyle","15":"tag-sharjah-uae","16":"tag-women","17":"post_format-post-format-video"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}