Talked to a friend who runs a bakery about hiring help

She told me she waited way too long to bring on a second person, saying 'I was so scared of the extra cost I didn't see the extra money I was losing.' That hit me because I've been doing the same thing, trying to handle all our social media myself. Has anyone else put off a hire and regretted it later?

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bettyroberts3d ago

Consider the lost revenue from customers you never had time to reach.

ray_miller843d ago

Read a case study about a small bakery that only took phone orders. They were turning away dozens of calls during peak hours because the line was busy. Each missed call was a lost sale, and over a month it added up to thousands in cake and pastry revenue they never even knew about. It's easy to just see the sales you make, not the ones that slip away because you're too busy or hard to reach. That silent loss can be the difference between a good month and a great one.

seanjackson3d ago

Man, that's so true. I read about a food truck owner who was a one man show. He tracked how many people walked away from his window because the line was too slow. He was losing like fifteen sales a day just from people giving up. That's pure profit he was too busy to even see.