Aug 28, 2012

Tamarra Thomas’ Sweet SuccessBy Jenni PompiCrofton.Patch.com

Bowie, MD – When her restaurant employer started having financial troubles in early 2010, Bowie resident Tamarra Thomas said she wasn’t too surprised when she was laid off.

“When a restaurant is having trouble financially, they cut managers or they cut pastry,” she said.

As the restaurant’s managing pastry chef, Thomas was among the first on the chopping block. Collecting unemployment and contemplating seeking another vulnerable restaurant pastry chef position, she decided it was time to take a chance.

“I’d always had the dream of owning a candy shop, so I thought, ‘I’ve been laid off, I have the time, the time is now,'” said Thomas, and that’s how Mama Cocoa’s Delights was born.

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