Foster Hot Bread Pvt. Ltd.

We are located way up on the tenth floor of Bajaj Bhavan. It is a bit of a strange place for a bakery when you think about it, being so high up in Nariman Point. Most mornings start while the city is still quiet and the sun hasn’t even thought about coming up yet. We spend a lot of time moving heavy sacks of flour in and out of the elevators. The machines are old but they still get the job done every single day. There is always a fine layer of white dust over the desks and the floor. People from the other offices in the building often poke their heads in because of the smell. It is just a small group of us working here. We do not have fancy signs or a big lobby. Most of our day is spent checking the timers and making sure the dough has risen enough before it goes into the heat. Sometimes the delivery trucks get stuck in the traffic downstairs, which can be frustrating. You can see the sea from the windows if you stand in the right spot, but usually we are too busy to look at the view. We just keep our heads down and get the bread ready for the shops. It is a lot of manual work and our hands are always dry from the flour, but that is just how it goes.