Dancing Deer Baking
There were three company founders; a talented baker, Suzanne Lombardi, who originated many of Dancing Deer's recipes, a theoretical physicist/business strategist, Ayis Antoniou, who loves to cook, and a business woman/artist, Trish Karter, who's passion is nature and the environment. Trish is still with the company as President and CEO. Suzanne and Ayis, have moved on. Trish shares heavy cookie tasting responsibilities with her two children. Incorporated in April 1994 to provide high quality, all-natural baked goods to accompany the growing market for gourmet coffee, they started out in a former pizza parlor on a busy street corner with a couple of convection ovens. Their specialty was cakes, sold primarily to cafes and restaurants. In 1996 they brought out a line of packaged consumer goods under the Dancing Deer label. Not long after that they opened the doors to passers by who demanded access and forced them in to having a small retail operation. They surprised themselves, and a lot of other people, when