Minimum Charges

Business By kickasscakes Updated 5 Apr 2010 , 10:02pm by kickasscakes

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kickasscakes Posted 5 Apr 2010 , 5:46pm
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I have been asked by a customer what I charge for cakes.
My minimum is 100 dollars.
I told her that, and she asked what size 100 dollars gives you.
Tricky question, don't you think?

She wants a grand piano cake. How do I answer that?

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Doug Posted 5 Apr 2010 , 5:54pm
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answer: it depends.

plain cake? or specialty carved cake?

even McDonalds has a minimum order: $1 for the simplest menu items. And then it goes up (WAY up) from there.

So....

it depends upon how fancy a cake you want and how much work is entailed in creating it.

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tootie0809 Posted 5 Apr 2010 , 5:58pm
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Does she want a 3-D grand piano? I have different pricing for sculpted cakes than regular cakes, since they are more work. I have a $150 minimum on all cake orders, so when someone asks me how big of a cake the minimum will give them, I tell them for a normal cake in buttercream it would be XX size, for fondant XX size, and for 3-D etc. For cakes I know are going to be a lot more detail work, I factor that into the minimum price and if it's going to be more time intensive, then they get a smaller cake for that minimum.

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tiggy2 Posted 5 Apr 2010 , 6:19pm
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I would quote her in servings. If you charge $3.00/serving it would serve approx. 33 in BC or $4.00/serving for fondant it will serve approx. 25. Serving sizes are 1 x 2 x4 3-D is a whole different animal.

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kickasscakes Posted 5 Apr 2010 , 10:02pm
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thanks for the feedback, I appreciate it so much.

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