50-year-old Shenkeng mooncake shop mechanizes for Mid-Autumn demand
50-year-old Shenkeng mooncake shop mechanizes for Mid-Autumn demand
2024-09-09
As the Mid-Autumn Festival gift-giving season arrives, a 50-year-old cake shop in Shenkeng, New Taipei, is flooded with gift boxes. The shop has received a massive influx of orders from department stores, tech companies, and financial institutions. Despite having 20 employees working overtime every day, they are still struggling to keep up. They have not only increased their workforce but also added mechanized production lines. On average, they need to produce at least 130,000 mooncakes each day.
The pineapple cakes are pressed into square shapes, dipped in crushed almond, and then set to harden.
The cakes are placed in the oven, baked at 150°C for 20 minutes.
A delicious smell bursts out of the oven the moment the cakes are taken out. Pineapple cakes aren’t the only hot sellers.
Tang Shih-ching
FTV Reporter
During the Mid-Autumn Festival rush, the daily production of green bean cakes has surged from 5,000 to over 10,000. At times like this, handing over the complex packaging tasks to machines makes a difference. In just one minute, a machine can package 30 individual green bean cakes.
One employee places green bean cakes into the machine, while another is in charge of packing them into boxes. They work against the clock, making sure the boxes are filled quickly and efficiently.
In the shipping area, the staff sorts the cakes into categories and swiftly packs them into boxes. With 20 employees in the factory already stretched thin during the busy season, they’ve had to bring in five additional workers to help. The surge in orders from department stores and tech companies means they’re processing hundreds of orders.
Chen Hui-ping
Cake shop owner
This year, many corporate orders are picked up directly from our store. This is likely because companies want to collect and deliver the gifts themselves. As a result, our store’s order volume has surged, with growth of at least 10% to 20% compared to previous years. The key challenge this year is the pressure on our workforce. We’ve added more mechanized equipment to help compensate for the shortage of manpower.
Regular customer
I started buying from them when I first entered the workforce because my family lived near their Muzha store. We would buy their products for holidays and special occasions, and sometimes we’d also use them as gifts.
Despite the doubling of costs for egg yolks and imported butter, the business is committed to keeping prices frozen, aiming to ensure that consumers can enjoy the festivities without added costs.
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直擊深坑50年月餅老店中秋趕工 機械化輔助產上萬顆糕餅
2024-09-09
進入中秋送禮旺季，新北市深坑一家50年糕餅店，幾乎快被禮盒給淹沒，因為接到百貨、科技業、金融業海量訂單，工廠內20名員工，天天加班，還是趕不出來，現在不只增派人力，還多了機械化輔助產線，平均一天，至少要生產13萬顆月餅。
壓成方形的鳳梨酥，蘸上碎杏仁角，再次定型。
送進烤箱，高溫150度，烤20分鐘。
熱氣和香氣，在出爐這一刻一起竄出，不只鳳梨酥趕著出貨。
[[民視記者 唐詩晴]]
“遇上中秋大檔，每天要生產的綠豆黃，從五千顆一下暴增到上萬顆，這時候把繁複的包裝工作交給機器，只要一分鐘，就能幫30顆綠豆黃，穿上外衣”
一名員工，將綠豆黃放進機器，另一名負責裝箱，爭分奪秒，裝好裝滿。
來到出貨區，工作人員將糕餅分門別類，手刀入盒，整個工廠20名員工，旺季不夠用，還要多請5個人力協助內，就是因為百貨、科技業訂單，一定就是上百份。
[[50年糕餅二代經營者 陳慧萍]]
“今年很多的企業單都到門市取貨，所以可能就是希望能到店面，直接拿去送禮，所以門市的量就爆單，比往年要有成長至少有一到兩成，重點今年人力真的很吃緊，我們有搭了更多的機械化設備，然後來補足人力的部分”
[[常客]]
“從剛出社會的時候就買，因為家裡剛好住他們木柵店附近，過年過節其實都會買，那有時候偶爾會送禮”
儘管蛋黃、進口奶油原料翻倍漲，但業者堅持凍漲，要讓消費者，開心過節。
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