Bobby's Journey
In the early 1980s, Bobby Grissett was serving as a food service manager, preparing meals for hundreds of soldiers every day. Sheet cakes, brownies, and cornbread were always on the menu, but cutting them evenly was exhausting. Knives took too long, the slices were uneven, and food was wasted.
Bobby kept running into the same challenge years later while working in Conway, South Carolina at Waccamaw Elementary School and Homewood Elementary School. Feeding large groups of kids and staff brought back the same problem he had faced in the Army kitchens: how do you quickly cut a sheet cake into equal portions without wasting time or food?
That is when inspiration struck. The simple layout of an ice tray gave him the spark. What if you could take a grid shaped cutter, press it straight down across an entire cake in one motion, and pull it back up to reveal perfect, uniform squares? That idea became Bobby's breakthrough, the original cake cutter.
He called it the 54 Square Cake Cutter, and he poured himself into making it real. Bobby partnered with invention companies, had prototypes made, and in 2007 he brought his idea before a national audience when he appeared on the TV show American Inventor.
Over time, similar products started to appear in the marketplace. But the truth is simple. The downward press and pull motion, the grid design, the one step process for perfect portions, all of it began with Bobby's invention. He was the first to create it.
Today, that legacy continues with the ProBake Grid™. Inspired by Bobby's original idea, it is the next generation of cake and brownie cutters, designed to save time and deliver perfect portions for families, schools, churches, and events everywhere.
The ProBake Grid is a continuation of Bobby's original vision, one that started in the kitchens of the U.S. Army and the cafeterias of Conway schools, and has grown into a product ready for homes across the country.
