A Linden Pl. resident Kristi Cunningham has started her own new mobile cupcake service, and rumor has it she'll be making an appearance at the H Street Festival.
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I hope these are reallllllly good, and that she hangs around H Strrt often. I love cupcakes.
Keep them under $1.50 please! Or at least make them $1.50 if you buy them in bulk
When did cupcakes become the big thing?
When did cupcakes become the big thing?
When Americans became big things.
we are in the middle of a cupcake bubble. be prepared for the cupcake crash.
Jonathan, I'm glad somebody agrees with me. What is the big freaking deal? I visited one of the famous ones up in Manhattan and......the emperor has no clothes. It's a freaking cupcake. Anyone can make these things.
I'm short cupcakes. It's going to be like tech stocks in 2001. :-)
I haven't tasted her cupcakes yet but I have tasted Georgetown Cupcakes and I have to say they are not just ordinary cupcakes. Try one for yourself and you'll be pleasantly surprised
I agree with Rob...
Cupcakes...dont believe the hype.
Word.
Yeah. That's why the line goes 100 feet out the door every weekend for $3 cupcakes at georgetown cupcake. They're just ordinary cupcakes.
You guys obviously never tried them.
The people that buy $3 cupcakes would buy a $10 cupcake. They see a line and fall in place, no matter what the cost or taste.
If you think georgetown cupcakes taste the same as the ones at safeway I feel sorry for you. I would kill to be able to make my own frosting like theirs
Add lots of sugar!
I'd pay $3 for a good cupcake no questions asked. Cupcakes have always been popular. Small business owners are just finally capitalizing on their deliciousness!
I taste a hint of cream cheese in their frosting..that's what makes it so good!
Don't listen to the bitter people here..I'd be happy to try out your cupcakes!
I wish her well. At $3 a pop, that is almost all profit. She won't be getting rich off of me.
A mobile cup cake van hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.This could be a great idea.However,the cup cakes has to be exceptional.For exsample cup cake topped with bacon bits (fresh not canned) or chopped broccoli.
5th street
Apparently the cupcake phenomenon began with Sex and the City about a decade ago.
Here's a 3+ year old article about cupcakes in DC.
http://tiny.cc/LPVoG
I really want to cash in on the next big things that costs 10 cents to make, and sells for 3 dollars to yuppies with lots of disposable income.
Any ideas?
getting your cupcakes to taste like georetown cupcakes is another thing. Easier said than done
buzzonslaters.com (bakery in alexandria) sells bacon cupcakes with APPLEWOOD SMOKED BACON!
OM NOM NOM!
People don't understand why cupcakes are so popular now? Heck, just look around. The US is the fattest country in the workd, and Americans are getting obese at a head-spinning rate; why would cupcake mania surprise anyone?
Joe Englert said:
Why would anyone be naive enough to think a cupcake costs only 10 cents to make especially if you own a retail space in georgetown or dupont circle?
Rent in G'town is about $60 a square foot.
An average city bakery space is about 1000 square feet.
Okay, that means a little bakery is paying $5000 a month for rent.
Now, you have to pay utilities. Tack on $1200 a month for gas, electric and water, minimum.
How about industrial baking equipment, hoods, pots, pans, spatulas, etc. It would be a capitol investment of about $50,000 to start a commercial bakery. This is for the kitchen ONLY! It would cost no less than $100,000 to take a vanilla shell to a viable commercial space. This money is a suck cost that goes into a breakeven equation.
And how about help? The going rate for a counter person or icer or baker is $10 an hour. Tack on about 15% in taxers PER HOUR. So easily, $100 a day per employee on payroll
Workers comp would run about $10,000 a year as well. So, $200 a week just for the right to have employees or employ people.
Eggs are expensive. Sugar is expensive. Chocolate is expensive. So is cream cheese.
So, with just the tip of the iceberg in expenses, it would take about $5000 a week in sales just to BREAK EVEN.
So, 1666 $3 cupcakes just to make a penny. That is 238 cupcakes a day just to meet bills before you pay yourself a salary!
Do you really think it is easy to sell 238 cupcakes on a Monday? How about when it snows a foot? How about when it is raining cats and dogs?
How about on Christmas, Easter, July 4th? Do you think any cupcakes are sold on those days?
People consider this sort of sobering data, next time you have an idea for businesses on H.
Would you risk your job with its benefits and paycheck to sweat all day in a bakery for no guarantees?
It is hard to make money in restaurants, retail or any small business.
Thanks for the cost break down Joe. I think this all the time when I see people bitching about restaurant prices, but I don't have the energy (or detailed knowledge) to drop these whiners some science.
Would you risk your job with its benefits and paycheck to sweat all day in a bakery for no guarantees?
I remember having a similar discussion with friends before The Diner opened in Adams Morgan. What a great idea! Imagine the money we'd make opening and running a diner in Adams Morgan.
And all we'd have to do is work 80 hour weeks in a diner.
Oh...nevermind.
Thanks for putting the costs into perspective. I have been trying to start a small business on H Street and have been doing the research. I can tell it's going to take a lot of sandwiches to make my sandwich shop come close to breaking even.
This is why I appreciate so much the risks that the H Street small business folks have taken. We all benefit so much from them and sadly, not everyone in the community takes the time to support them. Yet, they will definitely cash in on the equity their homes builds for its proximity to the "shops/bars/restaurants on H Street".
g,
game over on the sandwich idea. taylor is the undisputed king. either you really bring it or you try another idea.
I think Taylor's sandwiches are great and the ambiance is wonderful too, but I think there is always room for competition.
And trust, I intend to "really bring it" as soon as I can get the money together.
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