Sweet Kitchen
Bakery and brunch. Ridgewood and Montclair.
A bakery taking its own orders in two towns.
For orders that are planned, not impulse.
Nobody impulse-orders a birthday cake. Bakery orders are planned, they are picked up, and they are exactly the kind of order the delivery apps were never built to handle.
Pre-orders with pickup windows. Cakes with real choices: size, filling, the writing on top. The morning case for the walk-in crowd. Your ordering should know the difference between all three.
Sweet Kitchen already runs this way, with its menu and cake ordering on its own site and the details arriving right. Yours can work the same.
What the apps take from you
$2,400
a month. $28,800 a year.
Calculated at 25%, the standard DoorDash and Uber Eats tier. Their top tiers reach 30%.
That is what the apps take. Here is what it pays for instead.
The Saturday cake ordered on Tuesday, with a pickup time your counter can plan around.
Size, flavor, filling, inscription. The order arrives complete, not as a voicemail to decode.
Coffee and a box of pastries for the office, ordered ahead, picked up by name.
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