Leo Gillick
If your business manages to catch the eye of social media, it’s usually a one-way ticket to successville. A 21-year-old has managed to ride the TikTok viral sensation wave with her Japanese Mexican fusion bakery, and I think she deserves all the support she gets.
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Dalworthington Gardens in Tarrant County is the home and birthplace of Pan Pan, a bakery run by 21-year-old Laura Molinar. It serves a perfect blend of Mexican and Japanese baked goods and treats. She has managed to successfully capture the best of both worlds, selling favorites such as Japanese milk bread and Mexican coffee.
But, it wasn’t her goods, necessarily, that initially caught the eyes of the people now lining up out the door. Instead, it was the promo video the 21-year-old made for her bakery that became a viral sensation.
Dressed as a Japanese milk bun, I presume, she showed her TikTok followers around her lovely bakery. Despite the shelves being empty of baked goods due to the end of the day, her personality shone through, and she charmed the world. The video has amassed over 16 million views at the time of writing, and it’s only gaining more.
Viral Bakery is Doing Its Best to Keep Up
Since the TikTok sensation, the 21-year-old and her family have been baking like lunatics. They have queues out the door and can hardly keep up with the demand. They have gone from a small-town bakery to an in-demand viral hotspot.
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Mama Laura spoke to NBC5 about their bakery and its viral popularity. “It kind of just blew up, and here we are trying to catch up. Before we would bake, we would make like one dough every two weeks, and now we make six or seven a day.”
The viral bakery started as small pop-ups for Laura Molinar, and quickly progressed to a storefront. And, for the 21-year-old baking sensation, this is the break she needed to get the business off the ground. But it’s just the beginning.
“If it keeps growing, hopefully into more stores, franchising opportunities — a lot of people are asking for different states — that’s definitely the ultimate goal, and I hopefully have a lot of time to get those dreams accomplished,” she told the outlet.
Keep on baking and never lose that smile.
