Skill level: Newb
Cake tastings: the all-important meeting between the bride-to-be and yourself.
Cake tastings can often feel stressful, vague, and out of your control. How do you setup the table? What types of cake flavors should you offer? How do you close the deal and get a down-payment?
Liz Marek and her friends conduct a mock-tasting and show how a typical meeting would go, ways to run the meeting and remain in control, how to deal with off-topic ideas from the difficult mother-in-law, and how to get a down-payment on site.
42:33 Minutes of Instruction
What You Will Learn
- How to setup your tasting to impress
- Learn how to direct guide the bride through decisions and add-ons
- How to deal with off-topic cake ideas and difficult party members
- How to get a down-payment right away and book clients
Tutorial Chapters
- Table setup
- Fondant samples
- Tasting ambiance
- Palette Cleansers
- Cake Portfolio
- Being prepared
- Tasting introductions
- Taking good notes
- Delivery charges
- Wedding colors
- Picking the cake tiers
- Quick cake sketch
- How to handle off-topic ideas
- Rough estimate and cake add-ons
- Tasting the cake flavors
- Closing the sale
- When to refine the cake sketch
- Handling cancellations