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Permalink Reply by Chris O'Connor on May 9, 2008 at 3:01pm

You might try contacting SweetStreet and Dawn Food Products to see if they have distributors in your area. We buy muffin batter from Dawn foods and a variety of products, including cinnamon (bake-off) scones from SweetStreet. You might also try contacting some of the major food distributors in your area like Sysco, Food Services of America, Nichols, etc.

Good luck!

Permalink Reply by Brady on May 15, 2008 at 5:29pm

Why not work with a local baker?

Permalink Reply by Anne on May 20, 2008 at 5:24am

Hello - we are a small coffee house in Virginia that started out six months ago baking EVERYTHING from scratch. Once I realized that there weren't enough hours in the day or enough payroll dollars to hire a real baker, I went to my supplier and found an awesome line of Pilsbury frozen dough products. They are what is refered to as place and bake and are that simple. The scones are incredible, and since you bake them in your place they can be labeled 'fresh baked'. Another plus is the aroma. You can go to Pilsbury's website and find a distributor and get some samples to try. I also work with a local baker who supplies me already finished pastries. We worked out a wholesale deal that includes a reciprocal plug of each other's businesses.

Permalink Reply by Amelie & Barb on June 2, 2008 at 8:03am

We've found a small local boutique style bakery who's going to sell us her products not necessarily wholesale pricing but rather, she charges what it costs her to make the items we've selected. We'll be getting weekly deliveries, all frozen. We bake in our shop every morning.

Simple, cost effective and customers appreciate it. and, the best it's local!

Permalink Reply by Melinda Pensinger on September 10, 2008 at 8:31am

We have no local bakery or anyone who would deliver and I'm working the shop solo, so couldn't drive for baked goods and haven't got space (or time!) for cooking on premises. I purchase most food products from Sysco. They offer an assorted scone dough made by Pillsbury - my customers love them. Especially the White Chocolate Raspberry. We also serve the Pepperidge Muffins. Ideally, I'd like to offer fresh-made products (when I can afford to outfit a warehouse space with a kitchen), but for now all I need is an oven to bake the scones and the smell helps them sell.

Permalink Reply by Dan Dean on September 10, 2008 at 2:16pm

We also sell the Pillsbury scones from Sysco plus all natural oatmeal based and Weight Watcher approved cookies that pretty much have a cult-like following - from a local bakery. We tried cheesecake from another local source - but that did not go over well at all.

Permalink Reply by Melinda Pensinger on September 11, 2008 at 5:09am

Our best-selling dessert that we purchase from Sysco is the Chocolate Madness cake. It's a two-person piece of cake. We tell customers that and they all say we don't know how much they like chocolate, but most come back defeated and say they had to share it.

Permalink Reply by Melinda Pensinger on September 18, 2008 at 5:38am

For those using Pillsbury frozen scones, are you able to purchase an unassorted case? I can only get the assortment from Sysco & I have customers waiting for me to sell out on the other flavors before I can order another assorted case that has more White Chocolate Raspberry.

Thanks!

Permalink Reply by Dan Dean on September 18, 2008 at 10:33am

As far as I know you cannot get just the White Chocolate Raspberry. I did ask our Sysco rep and was told that the scones only come in the assorted. We bake equal amounts of the three variety to start each day and usually sell out of all flavors by the end of the day. We do keep two cases on-hand though - as the local high school is known to order 90 at a time without much notice - plus if we do have a run on one variety - we can always dip into the second case ...

Permalink Reply by Melinda Pensinger on September 18, 2008 at 10:45am

That's amazing! If I sold that many scones, I'd stock 2 cases as well. I might sell 2 per day. How do you do that?!

Dan Dean said:

As far as I know you cannot get just the White Chocolate Raspberry. I did ask our Sysco rep and was told that the scones only come in the assorted. We bake equal amounts of the three variety to start each day and usually sell out of all flavors by the end of the day. We do keep two cases on-hand though - as the local high school is known to order 90 at a time without much notice - plus if we do have a run on one variety - we can always dip into the second case ...

Permalink Reply by Dan Dean on September 19, 2008 at 8:18pm

We have had plenty of days where we sell just a couple - it was kind of weird - we increased the price by 25 cents last spring and sales jumped pretty dramatically - not sure if it was a coincedence or what ... we sell a dozen or more most days now - but certainly not every day - we still get those days that are just dogs ... The high school is very good to us - they used to get doughnuts for inservice days - but now go with our scones and coffee. We do provide free coffee to the athletic boosters to sell at the varsity football games ...

Permalink Reply by Becky on September 22, 2008 at 8:01am

I can get the White Chocolate Raspberry from my Martin Bros. Rep as well as Chocolate Chip but I have to special order them and that takes an additional week. So I keep it on a rotating schedule so that I always have them. I bake the chocolate chip ones around afternoon time so that when the kids come in after school it smells like chocolate chip cookies.... that gets em everytime!

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