Cupcake Queen Parlour to shut on Christmas Eve 2012

[loveatfirstbite]

for anyone who attended the cupcake parlour on mill street here is an interesting piece of news on her blog.

http://the-cupcake-queen-stafford.blogspot.co.uk/

for the record, i like kelly and her shop. i hear good things about it. i can empathise how difficult it is running a business with the demands of a family on your shoulders too, and i only have a 1 year old! i can't imagine having 5 children and one of them in a wheelchair while trying to start up a business. good luck to you kelly

 

[tek-monkey]

Thats a real shame

 

[proactive]

 

[peggy]

sad, I was only in there on Saturday with my little girl, such a welcoming place.

 

[bunique]

Cupcake Queen to close on Christmas Eve - http://the-cupcake-queen-stafford.blogspot.co.uk/

Having been a weekly regular since it opened, I'm really sad to see it go!



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[zebidee]

That's rubbish, such a lovely little shop

 

[Darren]

I have never been in the shop but reading her blog it is very sad, i dont know her but i wish her all the best for the coming year.

 

[PeterD]

so sad, particularly that blog post.

 

[wmrcomputers]

I feel quite guilty for only ever going in there the once now and wish I had offered a little more support - although with everything else going on in her family life it seems inevitable that the closure would likely have still happened regardless of the financial reasons.

Very sad to see another local trader close their doors, but happy to hear that she is continuing her work from home. Kelly, the very best of luck for the future if you read this.

 

[My Name is URL]

Such a shame!!!

If it is a viable business and if she still has time to back cakes from home, could she not have employed someone to run the shop on her behalf?

 

[wmrcomputers]

Like most small businesses, it doesn't necessarily pay to have a shop / overheads etc. I've thought of opening a shop a few times, but in all honesty it would probably finish me. Shop rents aren't cheap. In my case I'd have to do around 15 repairs per week just to overheads, then employ someone so that I can do callouts etc. I'd have double the workload and make no more - possibly less - than I do now.

As it stands my only overheads are mobile phone and car... things I'd still be paying to have even if I wasn't self employed.

 

[loveatfirstbite]

if it were that easy to just employ someone to do the work for me then id be all over that!! x

 

[Tinkerbell]

such a shame, I know Kelly personally, and she is really upset x she loved that shop.