Page 5 - BUZZ Magazine - Issue No. 3 - Summer 2022 | University of Rochester

Photo by Brett Loie

Yuting Yang (left) and Anna Gaines (right) Photo by Brett Loie

STARTING A SWEET VENTURE:

Anna Gaines ’15 and These two alumna

Yuting Yang ’16 engineers-turned-entrepreneurs
sell cookies to spread joy.

n high school, Yuting Yang ’16 During the pandemic, Yang and says Gaines. “That’s what we
I was a Chinese exchange Gaines realized that they derive want our business to do—to
student in Palmer, Alaska, when happiness through the simple bring joy to people and their
she met Anna Gaines ’15. The things in life. That’s when Gaines communities.”
two became fast friends and left her job to return home to
later attended the University Alaska and start a macaron The Sugar House makes about
of Rochester together, both business, GG Macs. Yang later 700 macarons a day in their
determined to become engineers. offered to help bring the business L.A.-based commercial kitchen,
After graduation, Gaines went to Los Angeles, where she and and their colorful confections
to work for an engineering firm her husband live. are available in both L.A. and
in Philadelphia and Yang for an Anchorage at farm markets,
engineering consulting firm “Something small and sweet, like a through catering orders, via
in New York City. macaron, can make people smile,” DoorDash, and as corporate gifts.

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