For Those Of You Curious About Pricing........

Decorating By hockeygirl658 Updated 21 Sep 2006 , 5:40pm by indydebi

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hockeygirl658 Posted 18 Sep 2006 , 9:24pm
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Here is a link to one of the well known bakeries in our area. I used them for my wedding cake three years ago. And oh baby, their cakes are TASTY! icon_biggrin.gif

http://www.beavertonbakery.com/documents/weddingbrochure.pdf

The wedding brochure gives prices for a variety of cakes and what they include. It doesn't say directly in the brochure, but I think they consider fondant a "custom order".

Just thought it might be helpful for those who think they might be overcharging (You probably aren't) or undercharging (You probably are!). icon_wink.gif

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indydebi Posted 19 Sep 2006 , 11:04am
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WOW! Very interesting! Thanks for sharing!

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rezzygirl Posted 19 Sep 2006 , 3:10pm
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Nice brochure and website too. Thanks!

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rajinaren Posted 19 Sep 2006 , 3:17pm
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thanks icon_smile.gif

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arosstx Posted 19 Sep 2006 , 3:19pm
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Really nice, thanks for sharing. I wish they had non-tiered pricing though.

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debsuewoo Posted 19 Sep 2006 , 3:26pm
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Thank you so much! I hope everyone reads this and learns that they are realaly undercharging for their cakes!

Debbi

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Chef_Stef Posted 19 Sep 2006 , 3:28pm
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Beautiful brochure! What I find very interesting is that their smallest tiered cakes are over $4 a serving, but the largest is $1.84 a serving! How is that possible, I wonder? There's a bakery here that does that, too...hmm

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hockeygirl658 Posted 21 Sep 2006 , 6:09am
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homecook-

I was a little befuddled by that too. Bulk discount maybe? I know that once I am all set up it is not that much more work to do a cake to feed 50 vs. a cake to feed 20. Just more product. And always more than I planed on for some reason! icon_rolleyes.gif

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Chef_Stef Posted 21 Sep 2006 , 6:15am
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Yeah, it'd be depressing to make a cake for 350 people for $1.84 a serving! I wouldn't probably be able to bring myself to do it.

It doesn't cost me less to make larger cakes...

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hockeygirl658 Posted 21 Sep 2006 , 5:13pm
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arosstx-

Here is a link to non tiered pricing for that same bakery.

http://www.beavertonbakery.com/documents/CAKEPRICELIST_001.pdf

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PerryStCakes Posted 21 Sep 2006 , 5:19pm
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I am now done with the guess work, thank goodness!

DH made me a pricing model (only took 2 years of begging on my part). It's pretty cool - on a spreadsheet. I have to finish loading in all of my recipes and I then I can determine exactly what a project will cost me. I add in my hours of labor - and boom - a price!

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hockeygirl658 Posted 21 Sep 2006 , 5:27pm
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PerrySt-

That is quite frankly nothing less than AWESOME! What a great idea. And what a fantastic hubby for working that out. Well, better late than never anyway! icon_wink.gif

How cool that you can just put in a particular recipie, the deminsions and any modifications and come up with a price!

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sunflowerfreak Posted 21 Sep 2006 , 5:29pm
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I find they are underpriced. Does anyone agree with me? I live in the Boston area and I would lose money charging what they charge,

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indydebi Posted 21 Sep 2006 , 5:40pm
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Originally Posted by hockeygirl658

arosstx-

Here is a link to non tiered pricing for that same bakery.




Oh geesh, am *I* going to have a quick price increase!!!! Thanks for this one!

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