Planning Stages

It has been little over a month now that I have been planning Shimmering Sugar. I have at least dedicated 7 - 8 hours each day working and calculating. Let me tell you I feel like I haven't gotten anywhere.

I have finally gotten most of the things on my check list done before I go pitch my dream, to hopefully not get crushed like a little bug, to get silent partners or loans . Though some how as I cross something off, I add another item to do.

Thanks to my Associates degree in baking and pastry I feel like I am more prepared than others, but there are limitations to how prepared one can be. I feel as if there is something big that will magically pop up and throw a chink in everything. Time will tell if my suspicions are right or not.

Not to mention I am so thankful for taking Cost Control in school. I hated it the whole time but in the end it was the right decision. Now I will be able to make sure that I know what my cost are but keeping prices reasonable for the customers too.

Here is my list so far:

Cake and cupcake amount of servings sheet ✔
Pricing Chart
Delivery Cost ✔
Flavors ✔
Webpage ✔
Name ✔
Costing out cakes and cupcakes
Colors ✔
Theme ✔
Recipes ✔
Cake order form ✔
Decorations price chart ✔
Face Book Page
Labor Cost chart ✔
Food cost chart ✔
Food list chart ✔
Material list sheet
Logo ✔
Email ✔
Licensing/permits
Small Business Paperwork
Truck Pricing ✔ 

You could say I have a chart for just about anything. In between testing recipes and all these charts I have been putting all my efforts into costing all my sizes of cakes and cupcakes out. Let me tell you how frustrating it has been, for a me. I am numerically dyslexic. Math was my toughest subject in school because of this. I struggled for every A I got. It may not look like much but I am putting my blood sweat and tears into this.

Literally on the tears. I had a break down last night. I had all the vanilla cake prices costed out and while figuring out the marble that I noticed I had screwed up most of the vanilla. I got threw it and now it is fixed and I can move on. At the time it was just aggregating, I feel more accomplished that I got over that hurdle though.

I should get back to costing out more flavors!