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Baker Has to Make 102,000 Cupcakes For Grouponers
Rachel Brown, owner of the small Need a Cake bakery, became a victim of the old adage, "Be careful what you wish for. You might just get it." More than 8,500 people took Rachel up on her Groupon offer of a 75% discount on a dozen cupcakes, forcing her to make over 100,000 cupcakes to fill all the orders. In the end Brown lost almost $20k. "We take pride in making cakes of exceptional quality but I had to bring in agency staff on top of my usual staff, who had nowhere near the same skills. I was very worried about standards dropping and hated the thought of letting anybody down. My poor staff were having to slog away at all hours — one of them even came in at 3 a.m. because she couldn't sleep for worry," she told The Telegraph. "We are still working to make up the lost money and will not be doing this again."
I'm sure she can do it. It'll be a piece of cake. 102,000 pieces.
There's a spot in User Info for World of Warcraft account names? Really?
I don't think they understood what could happen when the passed that law.
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I owned a mall-based cookie/cafe store and also a pretzel store.
OK, I'll bite (so to speak)
How did you end up with the handle "TVDinner"?
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