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."

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Re:The Law of Unintended Consequences...

[Anonymous Coward]

Governments offer free benefits to immigrants and what do they expect?

They "expect" only the ones needing it the most or the "hard luck cases" will be the only ones taking the help...

Instead the ruthless amoral ones come in and take full advantage while the ones actually needing the help who are good people who are too prideful to take the handouts.

So you end up with people immigrating to counties for the "welfare state" who don't even like the country and sometimes even loathe it, but do it for the freebies. And people wonder why Europe is becomming such a mess....

DUH!