How much would YOU pay for one of my quarter pound malted chocolate chunk cookies?I'm starting a business
I dunno probably like $2 maybe $3 if it's something really spectacular. There's a lot of options for fresh baked cookies around me, the local donut shop near me does big ones for a dollar.
>>22173367they weigh a quarter pound each? I wouldn't buy 1 cookie. I'd get a pack of 4 or 6 or 10 or whatever. depending on the price
>>22173376Damn..you're the second one to say that. I don't know if it helps that I have a little push cart and I'll be walking around going cooookies! Fresh home made coookies for saaale!$2 is already close to my cost + packaging per item>>22173385My target was hopefully 1 for $5, 4 for $15
>>22173398Different anon but how wide are they? Roughly where would you be selling? They look really good, could be a hit at a farmer’s market or large event. Maybe start at $4 to test the water
>>22173398Food is a very tough small business to succeed in, especially simple stuff like baked goods or sauces. You have A LOT of competition and are basically restricted to farmer's markets, fairs, and door-to-door unless you invest in FDA approved packaging and pay to get on the shelves at stores. You need to streamline and buy ingredients in bulk. If it costs you $2 apiece to make & package them, you wont make shit.Your cookies look good and I'd buy them as long as they tasted good too
if your cost is 2 dollars per cookie and I was told that up front I would have no problem paying for 1 cookie for 4 dollars. the problem is the more expensive they are, the fewer you will sell. unless youre in a very rich area. or you sell and package them as something very fancy like crumbl.
>>22173447Roughly I can fit 5 per baking sheet and the edges are almost touching, 4 would be more comfortable Basically the permit I have allows me to be mobile, I have to move at least 200 feet every 15 minutes, So the route I have planned is to hit up the train stations before work head down the Avenue towards the parks and out past the schools when they let out >>22173459 The good news is there's a municipal carve out as long as everything I sell is shelf-stable I don't need to do it in a commercial facility so that's why I've landed on these cookies in particular
>>22173474Crumbl relies on branding to command their prices. The cookies are nothing special. People buy Crumbl to post on social media or impress people at corporate events, etc. You need to come out of the gate with multiple storefronts and employees to command Crumbl prices.
>>22173367First, I'm gonna need to see a cross-section.Second, I don't really like it when the chocolate chip are melted, I like it when they're crunchy.Lastly, given their thickness, are they crunchy or soft?
Who needs a cookie this big? Anyway, I guess 5 USD if you use good ingredients
>>22173481you really just need fancy packaging and aesthetic cookies and you could command that price anywhere. hell the vending machine at my job sells big round cookies for like 4.89 each and they are trash.
>>22173367I like this because it's bigger than the competitor's paltry third pounder.I'd pay about tree fiddy
>>22173367>no maldon saltNo more than a buck eachCookies are definitely over indexed in terms of small businesses. Sorry bub, not a good time to break in
>>22173398Can you post a vocaroo of your "cooookies! Fresh home made coookies for saaale!"? This will have a huge impact on how much I'd be willing to pay
I wouldn't pay more than 2 dollars but then I'd rather just make my ownNormoid cattle would pay upwards of 8 dollars at the right location ("""Farmer""" markets, hipster events, etc)
No more than $4 apiece or $12 for 4.
>>22173367Market them as protein cookies.Or make a nutritionmaxx version with whole wheat etc
>>22173367$5 for a hand-sized cookie
>>22173495Nobody needs one, in fact it's too much for one sittingBut maybe you get one to share with your friends
>>22173367buying cookies is stupid
>>22173629I made cookies whence and honestly for all the work plus cost of ingredients I got no value out of the exercise. Much more worth both the time and money to just buy them.
>>22173644The hardest most laborious part is scooping and portioning them individually.Hence as a baking genius I just make giant cookies and digestive biscuits in a cast iron.Scoop it in the pan, press, then bake. Giant cookie = revolutionary cookie paradigm shift
>>22173644 Yeah but look at all of those ingredients I'm going out of my way to avoid Things like vegetable oil, Gums, Soy lecithin, corn syrup My cookies use real butter, real sugar. my peanut butter cookies I had to go really out of my way to get a peanut butter that didn't have hydrogenated oil in it And the thing I'm pretty annoyed about is I sort of need to use artificial vanilla because natural vanilla just doesn't stand up to the temperature in the oven well, You lose all of the complexity and volatile compounds from the heat. So I can't really justify paying the premium for something that doesn't taste as good in the final product, But I hate how it looks on my label.
>>22173651Idunno I just found it a pain in the ass although I've never been a very good baker.>>22173674It is pretty foul now that I look at it
>>22173367They look good but ith cookies it's all about taste.$5 will be too high an entry hurdle, preventing people from trying in the first place.You will have to give first customers an affordable entry price to hook them, just like a drug dealer ("First one is free, kid!").If they taste as good as they look I'd gladly pay 5 bucks per cookie for them, espacially because they look like sth you don't eat in one sitting but last multiple meals.
>>22173486Soft
>>22173710That's gonna be a tough sell on a cart.You don't really want to walk while eating something that falls apart if in your hands.Can you add coffee to your cart and use it as a path to upsell your cookies.
I too would have to hear a vocaroo of "cooookies! Fresh home made coookies for saaale!" before I can commit to a price.
>>22173714Well you know how the government and municipal codes are when some schmuck is just trying to earn an honest livingSo I can't produce any coffee myself because that's a specific permit you needAnd if I sold pre-made coffee like Starbucks bottles or canned cold brew for example I'd have to get a retail permit which is different from the production permit that makes the cookies legal
>>22173398yeah sorry you're going to need to either be a loli or acquire a few to work for you for this to get any traction
>>221733671 euro for one.5 euro for a pack of six.
>>22173722I guess the permits are engineered that way for a reason.Without coffee, your business model is very hard.Who the fuck wants to buy a single cookie without even something to drink alongside it?Plus selling a $5 cookie is super hard. But a $5 cookie plus coffee (cost of coffee to you will be like $0.05 probably) is much easier.
>>22175059 I'm assuming this is the reason why Gideon's in Florida consistently has a one hour line out the door, The store is exclusively staffed by big titty goth girls
>>22173367Costco sells its 1/3lb food court cookie for $2.49.Crumbl sells its Instagram bullshit for about $4.50.I'm not trying to make a comparison in quality, or economy of scale.I am trying to give you an idea of consideration for your market's tolerance.Your value is probably going to rest on how well you can market the fact that it's a quarter pound HOMEMADE cookie.Several brands have banked on the idea that their cookies are "homemade," despite the product actually tasting like factory cardboard.Bonus points if you serve them in cute little custom cookie sleeves; requires a relatively small upfront cost and $0.10-0.50 (to at least break even on the sleeve cost) added to your sale price.
>>22173367I don't like sweets
>>22173367about $3, but $3.50 per cookie if it's just the dough since I wouldn't miss out on it being totally fresh from the oven and the pleasure of baking it
>>22173521I bet a cookie food truck could also charge $8
>>22173479I'm not allowed near schools or some parks, how will I be able to purchase your delicious looking morsels? I'd be willing to pay top dollar
>>22173508>>22173720How about we flip it and anon’s record suggestions for OP’s cookie call
>>22173367recipe?
>>22173367I would only pay for a freshly baked still warm chocolate chip cookie. Once of you normalfags should start a business where your gimmick is they are always warm.
>>22175370free bonus advice: you have to sell ice cold milk as well and can price gouge for it because if I'm going to binge on cookies I need to have milk
>>22173367I'm not a fan of sweets but those sure look appetizing.
Everyone was hating on my cookies when I gave them out... they said they didn't like the chocolate (1:1 of 45% and 60% Ghirardelli) and they didn't like the soft textureSo now I'm starting over using half milk chocolate and I've reduced my brown sugar by 1/3I think the cookie is very good but the heathens only care about sweet
>>22175844Have you seen planet terror (2007), specifically the bit about perfecting his recipe? What I'm trying to say is that you may need to add salt. Or blood.
>>22175859We'll just have to see what tomorrow brings
>>22175844Ah that sucks, aside from the different opinions on the pricing I think we’d nearly all agree your cookies looks yummy, and generally people seem to prefer soft over crispy.If you’re switching things up would you consider the possibility of doing hybrid cookie-pies? Thinner but same diameter crispy cookie on the bottom with a thin layer of cheesecake or pie filling on top? It adds to the complexity (I’m guessing it’s a twice bake kind of thing) but while I’m sure it’s something that’s been done, it’s not something I recall seeing.Pros:- luxe but in a different way than Crumbl’s soft cookie + frosting model, I could see a crisp cookie with cheesecake layer commanding a $5 price- can offer variations on a standardized cookie base- have the opportunity to add a little interactivity with different sprinkles customers can choose from during the transaction (chocolate, toffee)- since it’s a hybrid item you get to name it something Cons- more time consuming, but hopefully not more costly for the materials since the cookie is thinner- harder to store and transport, would probably need multi layer trays- harder to plan, possibly only 1 day shelf life for some itemsIf it’s something you’d go for (and feel free to tear the idea apart of course) maybe try a cheesecake, pecan pie, and / or chocolate custard using your current cookie starting out
>>22175897>hybrid cookie-pies? Thinner but same diameter crispy cookie on the bottom with a thin layer of cheesecake or pie filling on top?I wanted to develop a strawberry cookie pie but it's illegalThey're super autistic with the rules, I can't have any dairy fillings or toppings, and I can only have pie filling fully encased inside a pie. A cookie with pie filling on top would be considered a tart which is strictly forbidden because of reasons..The only work around would be if I make a well in the middle of the cookie and fill it with jam and the jam is physically baked with the cookie it becomes a thumb print cookie which is legal, added afterwards it's a tart and I go straight to jail
>>22175911Bleh their rules are so weird, should bake cookie shurikens and use them at the next town council meeting
>>22173367Quarter pound is 25 pence.
>>22173367>1/4 lb cookiewtf did you make them wIth, osmium?
>>22173398yeah $5 is a lot for a cookie. you need to think volume. Buy ingredients in bulk and sell a lot. its the only way to make a profit
it sounds good and looks good but yeah a cookie should be $1. unless like other anon said you cooked some fatties then 2 2.50 3 maybe
>>22175844>>22175897i think chewey is what me and most of my hs friends liked. real soft is a big moss for most people but hard can be too. hard cookies were ok for us when we got them but really we aimed to get like chewey almost caramilzed cookies
>>22173367>>22173398>$2 is already close to my cost + packaging per itemIf you add protein powder you can sell to the fitness community for $5 a pop
If only they knew what I'm putting myself through for them
>>22177009Does anyone care about the ten year old vietnamese kid sewing their nikesOf course notWe all suffer in silence
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>>22177009>>22177035That’s a lot of dedication, I hope things work out well. If it helps for big cookies I sometimes flatten Kraft caramels (inside some parchment paper) into thin circles using a rolling pin and then sandwich that between two dough disks and bake it that way. The caramel lends some extra chew, sweetness, and binding to the cookie that goes over well
>>22177421I'm going to attempt the strawberry pie cookie today, we'll see how that goesThis is 100% my own recipe it's not even based off of anything and tweaked like the choco
