I Have a customer who wants to order the following

1. 1 Dozen Chocolate Strawberries

2. 1 Dozen Sugar Cookies


So the client asked me would I do a tasting. How can I politely tell her, you aren't ordering anything in large quantity, so I'm not doing a tasting??

I tell clients I only offer tastings on orders of 80 servings or more. Plus, what is there to taste? They don't know what a chocolate covered stawberry tastes like? Or a sugar cookie?

I think they are just looking for free food.

Lol..thanks so much.

I would tell the client, sure.....I charge $20 for a tasting with up to 4 servings.

You will receive a "tasting" of my cookies (4 small cookies provided)
and 2 strawberries cut in half.

All orders over $100, will have the tasting cost applied at the final payment!!



I used to have people wanting to try 3 different flavors of cake to order a 6" round.......now I just say........sure........and give them 4 mini cupcakes literally a "tasting" of each flavor!!!

If they want to try it that bad, they'll pay!!

You've gotta be kidding me! Has she had a strawberry before? That's what they taste like. I'd just tell them I don't do tastings for those things, good lord.

In order to give you my opinion, I would need for you to send me a sample of the cookies and stawberries in question. lol!

Some people just don't live in the real world!

lol! I want a tasting of every item that every person has to offer on here! Go ahead and send me some of those strawberries to start me off with. Do they taste like strawberries with chocolate on them? How can I be sure of this, and how about those sugar cookies. Do they taste like cookies that are made with sugar? hmmmm, I don't kno-ow. Good Lord! I would tell her that you offer tastings or weddings or other large orders, as something like that is just flat goofy. (leave out the last part)

LOL! That's funny!

"our tasting appointments are reserved for bridal orders or occasion cake orders of X amount. I'm sure that you will be satisfied with our abilities with both chocolate covered strawberries and sugar cookies."

Oh, good grief!

people never used to ask for "tastings" till they started showing all that stuff on tv....i don't do too many wedding cakes any more, but i didn't even let em taste that...they could buy a little cake.

i guess if i was getting a grand for a quarter sheet like duff...i'd hold a tasting for everything too.

LOL jeez what are ppl thinking? Tell her she can pay for a tasting if she likes or she can take your word that cookies and strawberries will taste as they should!

just quote her some rediculous price that's more than what her order will be! lol

Hopefully you don't have to deliver the order.....otherwise she might want to take a test drive with you and see your driver's license

Offer her a baker's dozen of each and tack on a very small extra charge. She can taste it when she picks up the entire paid order. Maybe that's her deal....she's giving these away and wouldn't be able to sample them?

lol hilarious! I agree with just telling her you only offer tastings on larger orders or bridal/ special occasion cakes.

Some of the comments remind me of my husband when we go out to eat. I don't like to try a lot of new things so I tend to order pretty much the same thing even if we go to a new restaurant, but he always has to "sample" what I get to see what it tastes like. He'll ask me first what it tastes like and I always say, "it tastes like ___ (chicken, burrito, etc)." It drives me nuts. Like chicken tenders are going to taste astoundingly different from place to place. LOL

I'm a smart-ass so I'd probably have to bite my tongue and not tell her that if she's tasted a strawberry then she should know what a chocolate covered strawberry tastes like. It's not like the chocolate magically transforms the strawberry into something else.
Thanks for the chuckle.

This whole thread has had me thinking of this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLVig4g_mZ8&feature=related

"The strawberries taste like strawberries, the snozzberries taste like snozzberries"

Why do people even ask questions like this. I do cake tastings for weddings and really big cakes. But things like strawberries and sugar cookies.. please. What planet is she living on that she thinks that will even fly. I make some pretty unique flavors so I think my wedding clients have the right to ask for a tasting but I charge them for the tasting and then if they book with me I just add it to the deposit. Just because we are in business doesn't mean that we have the money to go around giving everyone tastings for free let alone for things like strawberries..If you don't know what a strawberry with chocolate taste like then maybe you don't need to be ordering. LOL.

I have truly enjoyed reading the post from you all. I can't stop laughing. I am glad to know that you are on the same page as me. For a minute I thought I was losing it. Like, are other people really doing this

I would have laughed, because I would not have been able to hold it in.

Seriously, I had someone want to come for a tasting for an order of a 6" cake.

I laughed.

I think I'd tell her that after she pays for her 2 dozen items she can "taste" them all she wants.

Figure out what it takes to make a batch so she can taste one, and charge her the entire price.

Say $xx for the chocolate, $y for a quart of strawberries, your normal recipe for sugar cookies costs $x for 4 dozen, $yy for your time and effort...

So one cookie and one strawberry is charged
xx + y + x + yy = your price for one of each.
After all, if she doesn't like them you're out all that $.