Kim Roberge has the longer local ties, having graduated from Honeoye Falls-Lima High School. The Roberges’ children, 21-year-old daughter Lindsay and 19-year-old son Ben, are college students but they help out when they can. The business has been a true family affair: Kim’s mother, Charlotte Esce, worked the counter and made salads before retiring this year. “My dad always said, ‘If you can run a business with someone, you can marry them,’” Kim said. Kim and Jeff got married in 1993, three years after they started Sweet Times. There are plenty of Dunkin Donuts and Tim Horton’s around to satisfy those cravings, she reasons. What the Roberges don’t sell are things like doughnuts and bagels (“Nothing fried,” she said). Sweet Times sells a variety of cakes, pastry trays and cookie trays, as well as fresh-baked breads, sandwiches and salads. Roberge describes the business as more of a pastry shop than bakery. Sweet Times is at 6385 Route 96 near the Farmington town line, a cozy place that seats up to 26 inside and 20 more outside in the warm weather. “Here” is at the southeastern edge of Victor in Phoenix Mills Plaza on Route 96. People took bets on how long we would be here,” Kim Roberge said with a laugh. Today, their bakery is still going strong. They could have followed the typical route and gone to work in other people's restaurants, but instead, the pair went into business together, and opened Sweet Times Bakery in Victor. Kim and Jeff Roberge met in college at the State University Agricultural and Technical College at Cobleskill, where they earned professional chefs’ degrees.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |