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About Us:
The ingenuity of Gerry
Mayer, a 5th generation baker, started Kopykake Enterprises in 1969.
Until the late 1890's, Schifferstadt, Germany was home to Mayers and
their bakeries. From 1905 through the mid-1960s, the baking legacy
was continued in Chicago. Mayer's Bakery of Palos Verdes opened its
doors on July 12, 1965, and has been delighting customers with the
finest cakes and baked goods ever since. In the later 1960’s
Gerry Mayer was getting more and more requests from customers for
him to put designs on their cakes that matched their party napkins.
Being a creative artist Gerry was able to copy the design by eye onto
cakes with icing but he instinctively knew there had to be a better,
quicker, more profitable way. A way that would make his life easier….
So he began to experiment and the result was the first Kopykake Opaque
Projector. Now, whenever a customer gave him a design, he would put
it in the projector, project the image enlarge onto the cake and outline
it in a fraction of the time it used to take him. He could now complete
more cakes in a day and become more profitable. Soon all the local
bakeries heard of Gerry’s invention and wanted one; so he began
manufacturing them in his garage after the bakery had closed for the
day. As word spread, Gerry became busier and busier and that’s
how Kopykake began.
Since those early days Gerry has shown his inventiveness many times.
Kopykake quickly established itself as a leader in the bakery supply
industry and became renowned for its creative innovations.
Since those early days Kopykake has developed the KromaJet and Airmaster
air compressors an airbrushes that spray food colors onto cakes without
blowing holes in the frosting. An array of Kroma Kolor Food Colors
aids the cake decorator with color coded tops to prevent the need
to search for the required color. Disposable Decorating Bags allow
the cake decorator to easily see what color icing is available to
them and so reach for it quickly saving time and frustration.
Making Life Easier for Cake Decorators is the underlying mission of
Kopykake. Everything we do and manufacture is inspired by this objective.
Noticing that technology could be used to take leaps towards making
life easier for cake decorators, Kopykake invented the Kwikscan-III and
KopyJet computerized cake decorating systems that enable pictures,
photos and images to be scanned, printed and placed seamlessly on
top of cakes. Other systems exist but are too expensive for the small
retail bakery, KopyJet utilizes the bakery’s own computer, own
scanner and own printer (Canon) or (Epson), the only expense being Kopykake’s
Edible Inks and Edible Frosting Sheets. We have even designed Cake
Decorating Software Desktop Decorator , which is available as a FREE
Download!
Kopykake is perfectly positioned at the fore front of the industry
and expects to remain there because Gerry Mayer is joined in the business
by his two sons Rick and Greg along with a team of other professionals
dedicated to making your life easier whether you’re a Cake Decorator
or an Artist. |
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