Profitability

Most things have an expiration date on them and pastries are no exception. Buying enough inventory to make all your goods are like a time bomb ready to blow if you over buy or do not sell fast enough. It really hurts your bottom line when you are throwing away food/inventory and have to buy the same staples to replace the expired ones. Ahh... sales are at a slump as they all tend to be during the early fall season. We're getting into our rainy season now in Oregon and Santine and I are hoping this will help push more pastries with their coffee/tea in the mornings. The pastry cart is doing well with new customer's weekly. We're finding that the dental offices have been our biggest fans so far. Who would have known? Actually we shouldn't be surprised at anything...we both are a shock to our own community as weekly go around as the "pastry cart."

Santine is doing great with her selection of pastries. I find that selling scones to those who haven't seen our brand before is a bit of a push but, they still find themselves buying them after they've tasted it. I've started to bring around coffee and that seems to be working in a couple of locations. Yeh!

Keeping things going is the first challenge for myself. Running a full time tea business, part time software business (Quasitime.com) and raising a family is nothing short of obstacles and lack of enough time. My family is healthy amongst the many that have the flu...atleast for today. That I am grateful.

Crossing my fingers for a more profitable month. It's the 20th of October and it's looking very slow for the business.

-Jamie