![]() ![]() In addition to these rising costs, are the rising costs of butter, sugar, and cocoa powder. With the hike in minimum wage and the hike in business taxes you’ll be tearing your hair out every Friday and every end quarter. If you live in NYS please, please do not open a cupcake bakery. I’m really oversimplifying this but the point is that if you’re selling just cupcakes (as I was) you need to sell a lot of freaking cupcakes. So if I profited $2 off of every sale of a $3 cupcake I would have to sell at least 825 cupcakes a week just to cover rent and payroll expenses. Payroll for three employees averaged about $1500 a week. When I was looking for a bigger location the rents were anywhere from $1000-$4500 a month. My rent was a great bargain at $600 (but do not expect you’ll find this kind of a deal). Rent+payroll+equipment+ingredients+unforeseen costs = sell a lot of cupcakes. ![]() Unless your cupcakes are infused with gold, your customers may stray to where the prices are lower, ie. With a saturated market comes more competition and with more competition comes competitive prices. You can’t charge $3+ for a cupcake anymore.You want to open a new cupcake bakery in this market? You better do something real different to stand out. Add to that the dozen-plus other bakeries selling cupcakes and the mastermind of Wegmans with their new cupcake-bakery-inside-a-grocery-store model and you have more cupcakes than the general public can/should eat. There are 7 cupcake bakeries in my county of 750,000 people. So while she’s teaching you how to open your own cupcake bakery I’m going to teach you for free why you should not. I’m all about entrepreneurship and I’m all about helping people learn how to start their own things and succeed at them but let’s be realistic: if you wanted to open a cupcake bakery, you should’ve done so 5 years ago. I applaud this entrepreneur’s idea of branching out for herself and seeking ways to extend her brand and increase her income, but I think (and this is just my opinion here) that she’s doing it in a socially irresponsible way. While I was perusing the Internet the other morning I came across a successful cupcake bakery’s website with a promotion for their 2 hour $200 class that teaches people how they can open their very own cupcake bakery. Mel's mentor from culinary school, Vic Mazzotta, is one of the judges, but when his dead body is found inside a freezer truck, they'll need to use their best judgment to find the cold-blooded killer.or they may lose more than the contest.Pondering on Life Unapologetically Me 7 Reasons Why You Should Not Open A Cupcake Bakery In the third book, Death by the Dozen, Melanie and Angie are determined to win the Challenge to the Chef to promote their Fairy Tale Cupcakes bakery. Now, her mom is a suspect, and Mel and Angie need to find time to dig into the man's shady past and discover who served him his just desserts. Unfortunately, someone has iced Baxter Malloy on his first date with Mel's mother. In the second book, Buttercream Bump Off, Melanie and Angie's Fairy Tale Cupcakes bakery is gearing up for Valentine's Day. To save themselves and their business, the ladies need to find the real murderer.before the cupcake killer ices someone else. When Mel stumbles upon the bride-to-be dead-by-cupcake, she becomes the prime suspect. She's a bridezilla who wants 500 custom cupcakes for her wedding. In the first book of the series, Sprinkle with Murder, Melanie Cooper and Angie DeLaurae are finally the proud owners of the Fairy Tale Cupcakes bakery, but their first big client is a nightmare. This bundle includes three books in The Cupcake Bakery Mystery series. ![]()
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