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A big part of the COBS Bread business model is that they bake everything fresh daily, and anything left at the end of the day is donated. Anglin estimated that his location donated between $1,200 and $1,500 of bread every single day.

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His biggest dream is to start a bakery in a developing country and eventually develop it into a pre-med school. He explained that because the cost of producing bread is so low and the product is so widely appreciated, he thinks a bakery is the perfect model for a developing place. And, Anglin has a background in teaching sciences.

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