Unbeknown
to everyone at the bakery CEO Jack Carlingson (Jonathan Whittaker) is planning
to step down in the New Year and hand the reigns over to his son Nick (Daniel
Lissing).
However,
because of his obsession with modernization he has reservations, so he sends
Nick to White Deer in December to learn all aspects of working in a bakery,
including the production line that he is so keen to replace and to meet the
employees people face to face, because they are the ones destined to be laid
off if he got his way.
It fell on
Ellie as human resources manager to show him the ropes and teach Nick how to
make a Kringle, while also showing him that people make a business successful,
not machines.
He is also
introduced to the other employees as well as townspeople who work at and use
the food bank and begins to appreciate the human cost of mass layoffs.
During the process Ellie and Nick fall for each other as he helps her to chase her entrepreneurial dreams and their other dreams come true at the same time.
