Teen Asked Twitter To Help Save Her Father’s Bakery And They Totally Delivered

Jackie’s Twitter followers—and beyond—obliged. If “1 RT could bring in a customer,” then La Casa was about to have a line that stretches way out the door, because the tweet got retweeted more than 60,000 times. It got an especially big bump when singer and actress Paulina Rubio sent the tweet out to her 11.5 million followers.

Well, thanks to the power of social media and people just helping each other out in even a very small way, it worked. Two days after Jackie sent out her tweet on December 6, business was booming at La Casa. Jackie’s dad said that pan dulce was selling like hotcakes, and that he had almost run out of conches, a Mexican sweet bread.

UPDATE: WE ARE SELLING LOTS OF PAN WE'RE ALMOST OUT OF CONCHAS ?? pic.twitter.com/u1wmWmK6WT

— glo girl (@basicjackz) December 8, 2017

Tons of new customers came to La Casa, both from the Houston area and beyond. Jackie posted a photo of a couple who drive 45 minutes to get some baked goods.

This couple drove 45minutes to come to my Bakery. I literally broke down in tears as she told me how much she supported what I was doing. So many people have come up to me and talking about everything that's been going on and I'm still shocked at the fact that TWITTER DID THIS. I'm for ever thankful for every network that contacted me to take the time out of their day to sit down and talk to me. Every article that has written about us. This feels so surreal, it's only been 5 days since the tweet, this is only the beginning. I just turned 18 makin moves tho 😉 #blessed

A post shared by @ basicjackz on Dec 12, 2017 at 8:54am PST

And because social media can do anything, Jackie wisely set up an Instagram account and website for her father’s business, to make sure it stays in the conversation.

FRESH PAN DULCE EVERYDAY!

A post shared by ?La Casa Bakery & Cafe (@lacasabakeryandcafe) on Dec 9, 2017 at 11:01am PST

We’re glad to see that Twitter and social media can come together and do some good for some great people.