Immigrant Success Story Behind United Bakery In West Sacramento

When Dinh Nguy walked into David Berkley Fine Wines & Specialty Foods sometime in 1991, he brought with him samples of breadsticks from his fledgling company, United Bakery.

The wine shop in the upscale Pavilions shopping center already enjoyed a prestigious reputation, and Nguy had high hopes of making it his first customer. But there was just one problem.

“We don’t know nothing,” Nguy said with a laugh, recalling those early days when his “bakery” was little more than a 20-quart mixer and an oven in a 900-square-foot space at a rundown shopping center in Rancho Cordova. “We don’t know where to get supplies. We don’t know how to get customers.”

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