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Melanie's Lonestar Backstube LLC, Corpus Christi, TX (2026)

09/05/2026

Hello, y'all! Today I'm sharing some pictures with you from my trip to my mom's in Würzburg! She lives in a village near Würzburg, but we took a little hike in the forest and the countryside looks totally different than in my home area. I actually found grapes on a vine on a vineyard! In northern Germany we don't get that! The tree that looks like figs as fruit is a walnut.

08/31/2026

Okay, here comes part two of the Mövenpick Hotel visit last Friday. We went to have coffee and my friend had a slice of cheese cake and the waiter took us downstairs afterwards to enjoy the chocolate hour. I hated prepping that back in the day.😅 Unfortunately none of the former workmates were there, the CEO retired...it was so different. But we still enjoyed it.

08/31/2026

Before that discouragement from today I went to see my friend and former workmate from the Mövenpick Hotel in Hamburg. He picked me up at the central station and we went to have coffee. Silly me forgot to take a picture of the spectacular water tower that hosts the hotel. I worked there as a head pastry chef from 2008 to 2014 and it was my favorite job. I had a lot of stress, but they let me do whatever I liked, I could try recipes and see what the customers liked, later we offered weddings and I started doing cake consultations and made very beautiful wedding cakes on top of lunch buffets and coffee breaks. I was so in love with that place! I captured for you the ride from the street level to the reception where they play the sounds of the water dripping from back when they started building the hotel after it had been a water tower that was out of service. In the next post I'll show you pictures.

08/31/2026

Hey, guys! Since my post last week I worked on my business plan and today I had a telephone call with the lady from the Starthaus. She still hasn't read my additions and explanations, but she wanted to send me to another founder's organization, one that we decided two months ago not to work with, because they were kind of unfriendly in their emails. She still told me they don't see my business succeeding and they would not give me a loan. They have a bank in the house. I asked her why she thinks my business would fail, all the numbers are black in the business plan. She thinks I need to gain more experience. I said I've been a baker for 35 years, how much more experience do I need?! Yes, but maybe I should work in a food truck for one to two years to see if that's for me. Am I the only one thinking that's total bs? I explained to her it's not that I want to work in the food truck business, I want to have my own business and a food truck seems to be the cheapest and most doable way to get that done instead of taking a €100,000 loan to create a bakery or pay €2,000 in rent every month for an existing kitchen. Yes, but the small room of a food truck...I said I ran a home bakery in Texas, I can handle small room! I want a reason why they think I'll fail! They can't give me one. Experience has shown that 90% of the food businesses fail. Is that encouraging? And now of all times my self-employment counselor is on vacation for another two weeks! I need to figure out how to convince a different bank obviously. The Starthaus was the last option. I'm not ready to give up yet, but it does not look too good.

08/26/2026

So! It's the last week of August which means: Christmas season is here! I don't know anybody who likes that, except my dad's wife, she loves Spekulatius and she once told me,"They're not getting any fresher than this!" She's totally right about that! I mean...I could just dig in the gingerbread hearts and stars and pretzels...but I'm not doing it. No. Maybe in October, November. But I wanted to show you all the Christmas stuff Aldi has to offer. I totally forgot to take a picture of the marzipan bread covered in chocolate. It's not bread, it's just the shape of a loaf. But sooo popular!

08/26/2026

Hey, y'all! It's been a crazy couple of weeks...last week I had a colonoscopy without anaesthesia which was pretty interesting for me...two days later I wanted to go to a northern German western riding competition to see if I could apply with my food truck there next year, besides I love to watch the reining and trail and people in cowboy boots and hats...country music playing...but the train from Bremen to Hanover did not stop when it rolled through the station and I was not in the mood to wait another two hours for the next one. I also would have missed the bus that would have taken me to about half a mile away from the ranch that I had to go to. That sucked! I had planned on going for over a month! Then Monday I finally had an appointment with the Starthaus, the founder's organization that's supposed to help me get a loan. First, there are still details missing for my business plan, like how many chilis for how much money I will be selling to get to €500 a day. Well, not just chili. Then she said she doesn't believe the bank will even give me a loan, because food businesses often fail. And she couldn't see the focus in my concept, she said there were too many things mixed up. I have a very round completed concept that I put a lot of thought into. That was very discouraging. Then yesterday I hear that Dolly Parton died. This week keeps getting better and better!😥 But this morning I saw the most beautiful sunrise right from my bed. My best friend saw it, too, and she said, "Well, Dolly arrived!"

08/07/2026

Hey, guys! It's been a while! I'm so sorry you didn't hear from me...I got sick a day after I learned about the master degree, went to the ER twice in one week and four doctors examined me the second time, but in the meantime after I left the first time, it somehow started healing by itself. Now I have a colonoscopy scheduled in about two weeks to find out more. I've been having issues with stomach and colon for years.
My mental health is worse. I miss Texas so bad that I have days when I'm just sitting here crying, other days are better, but all in all I'm just waiting for my life to start here. I've been so lucky with everything once I got here and I do appreciate that, but I'm still missing my Texas life so bad, most of all the markets and the concerts.
With my business it takes so much longer than expected, I'm in the final stage of the financing process and after that I can order my trailer and go register my business. Turns out I only need a master degree if I want to stay in one place, otherwise I need a travelling business card which allows me to sell in different places. Crazy, right? In Texas I just applied for markets, drove there, set up, bam! Here there's just so many regulations...so to make bakery products in your food trailer you need that master degree, unless it's a travelling business or you're on a market. For markets you need a market permit and the market organizer takes care of electricity, water and grey water and restrooms. And you can cook and bake. With the travelling business you're allowed to bake your own products and cook, but you're not allowed to promote your business or get booked for private events. That was kind of a set back. As social media is still so new there's a loop hole. You can have an instagram or facebook account to tell people where you're next and what you offer, like a journal, but people are not allowed to contact you, the only way of selling stuff is by reaching out to the customer. That's why I'm planning on still getting that master degree substitute so if I happen to be in one spot for a while or in the same spot every week it could count as a "standing business" which requires that master degree. Then I can have business cards and promote and let people book me for weddings or little events. But without the loan there won't be any business. Oh, yeah, I had AI create a picture of my little trailer that I would like to share with you. So wish me luck for the next phase!

07/15/2026

Hey, guys! My research is going slow...it is very hard to find a home base for a food truck! I walked around a lot last week, at least the weather was nice, like Texas winter, 75, 76 and sunny, but so far no success. Not having a car to drive to places is not helping as well. On Sunday morning I found out that I actually do need a master degree to make my own pastries in my food trailer! After six weeks of research! The good news is that I should be able to get a special permission and not have to go to master school for three months and pay 10,000€, because I've been a pastry baker for 30 years this year. I have also worked in leading positions for four years which qualifies me for the special permit. But it's another 300-500€ and more extra paperwork, as if there wasn't enough already! I'm trying to get my business plan done so I can go to another founder's organization to help me with the financing. But my body forced me to take a break by hitting me with some internal inflammation that I still don't know what it is, but hopefully tomorrow I'll know. Oh, and at the same time I'm trying to get my papers updated so I can terminate Melanie's Lonestar Backstube. It is sad, but what else can I do? There's no way back to living in Texas and the address of the business has somebody else living there...but I can tell you I miss it every day!
To post something nice I have a picture of a slice of pineapple with my Padre Island Fruit Dust. Can maybe somebody tell me what kind of chili they usually take for fruit or margaritas? I have the feeling my chili tastes a bit like bell pepper first, then it's a mild hotness. It's not bad, it's just not the taste I'm used to from Texas. Thanks and have a great day, everyone! And go see my friends at Grow Local Farmers' Market !

07/05/2026

My friend Sharlie just called our weather bipolar!😅 Last week the heat wave, today 68 and a little rainy. But I still met my friend for a walk in the forest which I did miss doing in Texas. Last time it was hot and stuffy, today was more pleasant. What always fascinated me were all the blueberries that grow in our forests, but not everywhere and we picked some raspberries and saw tons of blackberries that are ripe soon, too.

07/04/2026

Happy Independence Day, y'all! I'm a little melancholy today, I miss my Texas so much! Germany is nice, too, but I have two homes now, and I miss my second home a lot! I'm wearing my 4th of July shirt today, but I'm home still working on my product line. My spices and labels are almost done, I have a granola now that is really good and not too sweet, and now I probably have to switch to plan B. It seems like I can't get all the permissions I need to actually run a food truck in the historical Schnoor quarter. The independent founder organization is not giving me the okay without the permissions and the truck owner doesn't want to get those permissions for me. Last but not least: to have people eat at your truck you need a restroom for the customers! Wheelchair accessible! And that's where the bubble bursts. Not because of the concept, everybody loves it. But you can't just put a foodtruck anywhere and serve food. You need like five different permissions first. Well...on to plan B! For that I need a lot of money though. Have my own custom made trailer and sell at different places. Wish me luck!

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