It’s a busy day for small business owners as Día De Los Muertos celebrations are underway.Rather than a time for mourning, Día De Los Muertos is a yearly joyous celebration with home altars to remember the dead and traditional dishes such as “pan de muerto.”At Campos Flowers and Gifts, family members start prepping more than two weeks in advance for the multi-day celebration, which is meant to reunite the living and the dead and grows every year.”We usually start ordering cempasúchil (marigolds) around the last week of October. We do have a lot of customers that ask us for them. So we make a big order and we usually do sell out,” said Nadia Ramírez Méndez, of Campos Flowers and Gifts, a family-run flower shop and snack store in West Sacramento.On Wednesday morning, Ramírez said they had a 400-marigold bouquet delivery ready.Florists are not the only ones noticing the increase in customers. Locally owned bakeries like Panaderia La Jerezana and El Trigal Bakeries on Northgate Boulevard make thousands of pieces of bread to sell daily.”We’ve been receiving orders and, you know, double, double shifts for my team,” said Luis Velasquez from El Trigal Bakeries.This Wednesday, they had an order for 5,000 pieces of the traditional sweet bread for the Day of the Dead.Both bakeries expect their busiest days to run until the weekend.See more coverage of top California stories here | Download our app | Subscribe to our morning newsletter
It’s a busy day for small business owners as Día De Los Muertos celebrations are underway.
Rather than a time for mourning, Día De Los Muertos is a yearly joyous celebration with home altars to remember the dead and traditional dishes such as “pan de muerto.”
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At Campos Flowers and Gifts, family members start prepping more than two weeks in advance for the multi-day celebration, which is meant to reunite the living and the dead and grows every year.
“We usually start ordering cempasúchil (marigolds) around the last week of October. We do have a lot of customers that ask us for them. So we make a big order and we usually do sell out,” said Nadia Ramírez Méndez, of Campos Flowers and Gifts, a family-run flower shop and snack store in West Sacramento.
On Wednesday morning, Ramírez said they had a 400-marigold bouquet delivery ready.
Florists are not the only ones noticing the increase in customers. Locally owned bakeries like Panaderia La Jerezana and El Trigal Bakeries on Northgate Boulevard make thousands of pieces of bread to sell daily.
“We’ve been receiving orders and, you know, double, double shifts for my team,” said Luis Velasquez from El Trigal Bakeries.
This Wednesday, they had an order for 5,000 pieces of the traditional sweet bread for the Day of the Dead.
Both bakeries expect their busiest days to run until the weekend.
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