Well, capitalizing on your find you open a world class bakery specializing in sticky buns and boy do they catch on, everyone has to have at least one a day, they are virtually addictive, the world can’t do without them. Of course, you don’t know this when you start out so you start by charging fifty cents a piece. You can’t bake enough, so the price goes to seventy-five cents, still the demand outpaces the ability of your baker elves to not only find the pecans, butter and cinnamon you need, but to bake enough each day to keep any on your shelves.
You tried to get some of your customers to try your new secret recipe for corn muffins, but something is missing, just not the same as those darn sticky buns.
No matter what you charge, you can’t bake fast enough and then you realize that somebody else is as smart as you are and you start to see the price you pay for pecans going up as well, what’s next, the dairy farmers want a bigger piece of the action too? Now those sticky buns are up to $1.50 a piece and there is no end in sight. What did you do add caffeine to the recipe?
This is getting out of hand, now you have to move to a bigger facility, buy bigger ovens and hire more elves. One day another baker creates a darn good alternative, but he is using almonds instead of pecans and no cinnamon, will he steal your vast following? Eh, a slight movement occurs toward the almond sticky bun, but no big deal so to cover your costs and expand further the price of the now world famous sticky bun is $3.00, $2.99 if you buy a box of six.
The absolute need for those buns keeps growing, hey you wake up one day and you are rich; it feels good. The world is happy with sticky fingers and pieces of pecan stuck in its teeth. Of course you haven’t seen your family in two years and still no kids. Well you have to have time to...you know… to have kids and there is no time for anything except making sticky buns.
Things are going smoothly as the buns pour out and the money pours in when you hear that a disgruntled almond sticky bun baker has gotten the city council to add an additional tax on pecans and cinnamon. What did I do, do people like my buns too much? :-5 Oh well, sticky buns now cost $3.25 each and no discount for a box of six. Of course, there is always the almond sticky bun that is only $3.00.
One day a funny thing happens, some of your regular customers order not six buns but only one. You ask why and find that the outstanding popularity of your sticky buns has caused some people to add a few pounds and inches and now they have seen the light, cut back on sticky buns as difficult as that may be. To entice a few new aficionados of the sticky bun, they now sell for $2.95, but you start thinking to yourself, which of my baker elves are the least productive.
Nevertheless, for people who think the price of sticky buns is still too much, there is still the corn muffin. :wah::wah::wah: