My girlfriend (soon to be wife) has a dream to open a pastry and bakery shop. However, she doesn't have any experience or any knowledge of it. Plan to fulfill her dream with our savings by renting or buying a lot in few years time (location not important yet). This will be our sideline business since business has better security than just working as employee until retire. Profitable or not is not the point, is about fulfilling her dream and have a steady and stable life with this business.

So my question is, is it better for her to learn by joining a pastry /bakery shop or to take diploma/degree to study it. I'm not sure about this industry whether is it worth to pour some money to study than learning it through real-life job right away.

Another question is, how much would it take to start this business? What kind of things I should take note?

Thanks alot

I think she would rather to have physical shop to sell them lol. But of course, that's a good idea before starting big to get some response from the people.

Thanks anyway