for me personally I can only do one wedding cake per day. That is just me as I am stressed enough without having to worry about 2 of them. And it would be me or the cake maker that delivers the wedding cake. That is what I do. Hope it all works out for you.
I've done 3 large wedding cakes in one day a couple of times.
Never again, because invariably, I always had a problem (albeit small problem) with one of the deliveries/set ups.
2 in one day,or 3 in one weekend is the most I will accept now. The money may be nice, but the stress and the lost sleep and the problems are not. I'm only one person!
I have two fuction halls that I make wedding cakes for. During my busy season I make an average of 6 per weekend. However, the designs are usually picked from the 16 "package" designs, but I do all the baking and prepping myself.
I am in the process of expanding my home bakery and hiring two part time employees. I just picked up two more function halls to care for and am expanding into gourmet dessert cakes to hopefully sell wholesale to the restaurants, now that I have help.
My ultimate dream is to only do high end designed wedding cakes and I know that I would only be able to make 1 or 2 a weekend then. I just need to get my employees up to speed!
Right now I can max out at 3 wedding-cakes/caterings per day (so I guess that means a potential of 6 on a weekend?). I've done 3 in one day before, but it all depends on the size of the event and the logistics. I have 3 weddings on 7/7/07, but I've had to turn down bookings for another date in which I only have one booked ..... that one is a really big wedding and it's about 75 minutes away. I have a couple of crews that I can assign events to, but I like to be able to be close enough to run over to help them if they need it.
I usually have a combo of 20 elaborate and easy birthday cakes on the weekend. During the week who knows sometimes there is just a couple a day and then I have been slammed?
The most Weddings were 7 & 10 the norm is 4 - 6 during the busy months.
My daughter or I deliver and I am going to have someone deliver on the really busy days.
I am delivering cakes up to 100 miles away and it is not worth me taking the cake... I can pay someone $10 hour to deliver and in that same hour I can stay at the shop and produce a couple hundred dollars in cake.
mpc
"I can pay someone $10 hour to deliver and in that same hour I can stay at the shop and produce a couple hundred dollars in cake."
mpc
You are right! I'm beginning to feel the same way about delivering everything myself. However, how did you get over letting someone else do it! Were you nervous they would drop the cake, or not set it up right?! It's seems $10.00 an hour is the going rate for hired help. I'm in Massachusetts and that is what I just hired 2 part timers for.
"I can pay someone $10 hour to deliver and in that same hour I can stay at the shop and produce a couple hundred dollars in cake."
mpc
You are right! I'm beginning to feel the same way about delivering everything myself. However, how did you get over letting someone else do it! Were you nervous they would drop the cake, or not set it up right?! It's seems $10.00 an hour is the going rate for hired help. I'm in Massachusetts and that is what I just hired 2 part timers for.
My hubby is the one who pointed this out to me. He said, "you think you're saving money by doing it yourself. You're the most expensive part of this operation!" We figured my time is billable at $100+ per hour, so for me to spend 6 hours at a wedding is "costing" me $600, but I can hire 3 people to work 6 hours each at $10/hour and it costs me $180. No brainer there!
customcaker
you need to find someone with confidence and respect for the cake. haha. I wouldn't trust just anyone with my cake.
Also I have very well supported tiered cakes.
mpc
customcaker
you need to find someone with confidence and respect for the cake. haha. I wouldn't trust just anyone with my cake.
Also I have very well supported tiered cakes.
mpc
Do you pay them mileage as well? Do they use their own vehicle, yours, or a company van? I know I will be dealing with liability issues when I open up to someone else delivering the cakes, won't I?
A lady in my hometown will do 6 weddings in a day from her home bakery. She does have employees though. I am definitely going to stick to one wedding when I start out. Oh and someone mentioned 7/7/07. My son is getting married that day. At first we were a little irritated with the bride to be because she was booking everything 18 months out but now I am glad she did!!! We would have been in trouble if we had waited too long after that.
Kristin
My son's birthday is 7/07/07...and I managed not to have any orders last year on 7/07. We'll see what happens this year, but I think I will take a pass on any requests for that day.
What is amazing, I have NO bookings for 7/7/7, but am COMPLETELY booked up for the rest of July :shrug:
Me too!
Not one but I am slammed with orders all around that date.
Guess you and me should charge more for that date because they'll obviously have been turned away elsewhere.
mpc
I can take 3 weddings on Friday, 6 on Saturday & 4 on Sunday which brings me to 13 a weekend. The most I have ever done on one day is 8 and it actually went very smoothly. The most i've done in a weekend is 11. I ALWAYS deliver the cakes!!!! I have to drive and deliver due to the liability of each cake and if something happened.
Andrea
I like to take only 1 per weekend. But I have done 2 with 2 groom's cake also. Too much for just me with all the prep work & clean up too.
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