The work never stops at Canela Bakery in Gaithersburg.
The family-owned bakery is open at least 14 hours a day, but even after the registers are cashed out and the doors locked, employees prepare dough, bake bread and cook the morning’s donuts and churros all through the night.
Rosario and Rosendo Gamboa, a husband-and-wife team from Rockville, started the business three years ago after their friend—and now partner, baker and production manager—Eloy Dosendiz told them about a German bakery for sale on Muddy Branch Road in Gaithersburg. They had been planning to invest in a restaurant but fell in love with the bakery and its emphasis on natural ingredients. They named it Canela—Spanish for "cinnamon"—and sell traditional Mexican breads and treats such as flan and empanadas.
"All around here you can find places that sell Latino bread but not Mexican," said Rosendo, 44, who grew up in Mexico. "We used to go to Manassas to get bread."
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