As many or most of you already know, at the August 2011 Town of Plymouth Board Meeting, Bettersweet was given a permit of operation for one year. In other words, by July 2012, our business must move away from our home location on Jennifer Drive.

Since our business is operated by both Curt and myself, and since our family is quite young [with our second child due in about 6 weeks], we have found it IMPERATIVE to live at the same location as our bakery. Many of you might not know that we put in, on average 60-80 hours a week EACH, meaning there are many, many late or sleep deprived nights as we work to prepare your orders. Eventually that will not be the case, but everyone knows that a beginning business takes extra work!

If we are forced to close down operation on Jennifer Drive, we will be forced to not only move our business, but also relocate our home. Chances are we would be looking at a store front location. Some of you may think that this sounds like great news, and believe me, it is likely in our long term business plan… but it is currently not the right time! As we consider such a move, we find ourselves asking: “What would this forced relocation within a year mean for our clients???” Quite honestly, it would probably mean increased prices to cover the expensive overhead [including employees]. It would probably mean a less personal experience to both the ordering and picking up aspects of Bettersweet. Currently, as many of you know, we limit the amount of orders we take on weekly so that each order is custom, fresh, and created with you in mind. Moving to a different location means a growth in business that will take away from what makes us so unique. We love being able to chit~chat when you stop in! We’ve gotten to know so many of your stories, hear about life outside our basement walls, and certainly share a laugh or two.

So many of you have offered your support to us and we thank you again for your encouragement! Here is something that you can do:

We are going before the Town Board again on TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1ST at 7 pm. Due to the possibility of standing room only, we encourage you to come early. The address of the Hall is 120 Suhrke Road, Plymouth Wi, 53073.

We are looking for anyone who is in favor of us keeping our operation as it is now to show up and support us. We do have a few people who are going to be speaking on our behalf, if you would be willing to speak as well, let us know. Otherwise, we are looking for clients and friends who can commit to being there. We need to fill the Town Hall to get the boards attention!

For those of you, who can come, please email us. Could you please include the following information:
~Full name
~Phone number/best contact number [so we can call a day or two prior to remind you of the meeting]
~Number of people that will be coming [seriously, everyone is welcome!]
~Mailing address [we won’t be sending you anything, but an address allows us to turn this list into a petition as well. ESPECIALLY for those of you who are unable to attend, but would still like to send your support!]
~Please feel free to forward this letter other potential supporters… as not all of our clients are on our Surplus Goodies email list.

In closing, Curt and I share a passion for what we do. We want nothing more than to be able to do what we love… add to the celebrations of life. That might sound like a ‘canned’ or corny comment, but our commitment to absolute high quality, delicious products allows us to create something truly special for your lives. Please join us as we fight for what we have built in this community!

~We’re working on a new selection of exotic flavored cupcakes, which we are calling ‘curious cupcakes’.  Look for our current offerings on the cupcake page, http://bettersweetbakery.com/bakery/cupcakes/.

~Edible imaging is now available!  We’ve invested in a fantastic printer that allows us to recreate your photo, logo or special image on frosting!  Contact us for pricing and size options.

~New photos are being added to each gallery page.  You’ll want to check back often for our latest sweet works of art!

With the bustle of summer around the corner, there are a few items we’d like to share with you or remind you of.

~Beginning Memorial Day weekend, Bettersweet will not be accepting orders for any Saturday through the rest of 2011.  In fact, we will not be open for pickups of ANY TYPE on Saturdays. We have nearly 70 weddings booked between now and November, so we must focus on making those celebrations even sweeter!  Please adjust your ordering so that you plan to pick up orders on Thursdays and Fridays.  By keeping your order refrigerated, you can be assured our creations will still be in excellent condition for your celebration, even for Sunday events.

~Surplus Goodies is moving to Fridays!  We will be sending out our weekly emails on Thursdays, hopefully between 4-5pm, with pick up typically available on Fridays from 1-7 pm.  On certain weeks that we are either exceedingly busy to do Surplus, or need to change the pickup hours, we will always let you know in the prior week’s email.

~Surplus Goodies emails are about to get a facelift!  In the next few weeks, you may not recognize the colorful, fun template that we will be using.  Look for this soon.

~We are certain that all of you have been affected by the increasing cost of fuel and food.  Many of our raw products have significantly gone up in price, and rather than switch to cheaper products of lower quality, we have had to adjust the pricing on some of our products.  We appreciate your understanding as we strive to create cakes, cupcakes, and other sweet treats of the highest ingredient caliber.

~We have always asked for orders to be placed a week in advance.  We would strongly recommend you place orders 2-3 weeks in advance as we enter into graduation season and the extremely busy summer months. Our capacity to fulfill last minute orders has been growing smaller and smaller, and we expect this only to continue.  Hopefully you are finding our new website and online ordering form helpful and easy to use.

Thanks in advance for taking the time to read this.  It’s a great day to think about cake… at least we think so.

Welcome to our new website! Whether you’ve never ordered from us or ordered from us 25 times, we’re certain you’ll enjoy many of the new features on our site.

We’ve updated our photo gallery, greatly improved our online order form, and worked very hard to help you understand what flavors might work best for your next celebration.

Please keep in mind we are still working behind the scenes, making sure each page of our new site is as informative and helpful to you as it can be.

So, take a moment or two to browse, read ‘our story’ on the about page or simply take it all in. We still are! Thanks for visiting today.