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Cupcake chain crashes

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IMO it's mostly b/c their cupcakes stunk. Flavor and texture wise, cupcakes from Sprinkes or Georgetown are much better and they're certainly not hurting for business.

So business with crappy product (huge, bready cupcakes with sickeningly sweet frosting) goes out of business? Color me surprised.

I do enjoy the occasional doughnut from Doughnut Plant in NYC and those were a couple bucks each last I remember.

Make a good product and you can sell it at a premium.
 
nah man, cupcakes definitely hit critical mass and are going the way of the dodo bird. Sprinkles might stick around but they'll be nothing like their glory days.
 
dawheat said:
Make a good product and you can sell it at a premium.
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That's really what it boils down to. Nobody I work with thinks twice about spending six or seven bucks on a fancy Starbucks drink. It's the norm.
 
Ns1 said:
nah man, cupcakes definitely hit critical mass and are going the way of the dodo bird. Sprinkles might stick around but they'll be nothing like their glory days.
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That's how it goes though. Froyo has been all the rage for the past year in my area, but only the good ones are sticking it out past the initial craze period.
 
Kaido said:
That's how it goes though. Froyo has been all the rage for the past year in my area, but only the good ones are sticking it out past the initial craze period.
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Past year? Dude where the fuck do you live, 2005?
 
Oh no! How will Cupcake Wars, the best TV show ever, continue it's unbroken streak of greatness if everybody stops eating cupcakes? Somebody needs to start a petition to save the cupcakes. We could have cupcake fund drives and cupcake church bakes to save the cupcakes. Cupcakes helped save Jesus, killer whales, and ta-ta's now I think it's time to return the favor
 
thestrangebrew1 said:
Holy crap! Is that a maple bar with bacon???? Looks awesome!

On topic, I don't think we have a Crumbs anywhere near me in CA, but if I did, I still would probably never step into a place like that. My wife makes cupcakes all the time.
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That Voodoo Donuts reminds me of Psycho Donuts down in the South Bay.. they used to have a maple bacon donut that was delicious too.
 
I remember hearing a couple years ago that these cupcake places started springing up all over the place in DC.
 
We have a few cupcake stores around here, and a friend of my aunts brings her some every now and then.

They are terrible; about 20% cupcake and 80% frosting. They cut a hole in the middle of the tiny cupcake, fill it with frosting, then put a huge crown of frosting on top.

I honestly don't see how people eat these. It's like eating a jar of frosting. Yuck.
 
Froyo has a lot more staying power because they require a lot less labor. Customers serve themselves, so you just need one employee to weigh and charge, and maybe another one to clean. Cupcakes require a lot of labor to make the cupcakes and more people for serving the customers.
 
I wonder how many of the $35 5000 calorie "colossal" cupcakes they sold.

Now that's a fad. A cupcake loses most of its appeal if it's simply so big it has to be cut into 10 slices.
 
K1052 said:
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All baked goods are not created equal, not even close.
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3 on the left are crap cake donuts. The only good donut here is lower middle imho.
 
acheron said:
stop being sexist you guys
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Yeah guys, do you want to get fired? :colbert:

I think everyone (who has a brain) knew the whole cupcake thing was a fad. The market got saturated too quickly. The restaurant business is notoriously competitive. Even the big juggernauts like Dunkin Donuts and Tim Hortons have to be constantly on their toes adding new menu items to keep people coming.
 
mmntech said:
Yeah guys, do you want to get fired? :colbert:

I think everyone (who has a brain) knew the whole cupcake thing was a fad. The market got saturated too quickly. The restaurant business is notoriously competitive. Even the big juggernauts like Dunkin Donuts and Tim Hortons have to be constantly on their toes adding new menu items to keep people coming.
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*shrug* The fantastic local donut shop I used to go to is still going strong. I think they've been around for near 30 years now.
 
Phanuel said:
*shrug* The fantastic local donut shop I used to go to is still going strong. I think they've been around for near 30 years now.
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A shop like that can survive if it's a local institution. Same deal with the cronut guy. Much harder to start up a chain in an over crowded market.
 
Imported said:
That Voodoo Donuts reminds me of Psycho Donuts down in the South Bay.. they used to have a maple bacon donut that was delicious too.
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I had a triple chocolate voodoo donut, which was a regular chocolate donut with cr@ppy fake-tasting chocolate icing, with cocoa puffs on top. Seriously? One true load of overrated dog waste.

Their apple fritter was decent but only because they didn't mess with tradition much and it tasted like an apple fritter.
 
KeithTalent said:
Oh man, cupcakes that huge just sound disgusting. No interest in that. I never really understood the obsession with getting giant portions of things, I would much rather have a smaller portion of better quality.
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Unfortunately we're a tiny minority. The average person wants more of everything and at lower cost as evidenced by the massive serving sizes at places like Chili's or Applebees. I'm a fat slob and I can't finish a lot of what they serve based solely on the volume of food on the plate.

As for Crumbs, they were pushing huge cupcakes at a premium price which appealed to neither the people who don't want to spend money nor the foodies who want high quality.
 
Sheep said:
Unfortunately we're a tiny minority. The average person wants more of everything and at lower cost as evidenced by the massive serving sizes at places like Chili's or Applebees.
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But that makes perfect economic sense, doesn't it?
 
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