I, like Donna am sure I’m qualified to answer your questions. As I was reading your post, I was thinking about Duff Goldman/Ace of cakes. In his shop, he does not do every cake personally, impossible, there too busy. That’s why he has trained decorators making cakes for him, it’s a team effort. I’m sure many cakes are done collaboratively. Like Donna mentioned, that if you have picky customers, like the one you mentioned, guarantee you will make there cake personally. Kinda reminds me of those Hollywood types who believe only the owner of the fancy expensive hair salon can do justice to there hair. When in reality, any of the well trained staff could do as good a job…and that salon owner started as an apprentice at some point too…
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