Oof, it’s been a month since I’ve written, so just a quick update on things.
We continue to grow, but we’ve definitely had growing pains.
Personal stuff has slowed down progress: I was on and off sick for over a month. Tom moved. Alexa got injured+surgery. Summer happened. We made progress, but not as much as we would have hoped.
We’re still growing every week. Last week we baked ~1700 kolaches.
We had hiring problems for a while, but found a way to fix it. Now we’re not just fully staffed, but OVER-staffed.
We’re operating at a loss due, largely due to paying for more labor than necessary, but we want to be prepared for the ability to grow and don’t want to risk losing team members.
We’ve built our own in app for our clients to order kolaches. This has improved operational efficiency.
Likely challenges coming up:
Finding a long term kitchen
Increasing our delivery capacity
hope you are feeling better