Downgrading my product

So recently i was busy try to sell my cakes to coffee shops. There is one problem, the price of my cakes is bit high for secondary seller like coffee shop, well that's normal since i use the best ingredients i could get. But for reselling business it looks like i can't keep my ideal to use the best ingredients, i need to adapt, i'll lower the price by lowering production cost, yea that means no couverture chocolate, butter, and dairy cream, just bullshit like chocolate compound, margarine and non dairy cream lol i hope that i'd taste good

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nonsensiclesnail · F

But, if those that are buying your product are doing so because of their superior quality how can you be certain that downgrading your product is going to be helpful, that you won't lose your current customer base and possibly not replace it with those looking for something more affordable and lesser quality?
Have you looked into different suppliers?

MartinTheFirst · 26-30, M

@nonsensiclesnail It's called engineering, if you can make a cheaper cake taste as good as the more expensive one then you've made pure profit.

nonsensiclesnail · F

@MartinTheFirst oh, I didn't know it had a name. Ya, thats always works out well for small businesses when the customers don't notice.

YukikoAmagi

@nonsensiclesnail i'll use my regular ingredients for my regular customers, only for coffee shop i'll downgrade my quality. Well.. they need to make profit too

MartinTheFirst · 26-30, M

@nonsensiclesnail I didn't mean to sound like a smartass, sorry

MartinTheFirst · 26-30, M

@YukikoAmagi The coffeeshop might not want cakes that taste worse than your original ones. You still have to engineer it

nonsensiclesnail · F

@MartinTheFirst Its ok, you are just fine. but its sweet of you.

YukikoAmagi

@MartinTheFirst give me an idea

MartinTheFirst · 26-30, M

@YukikoAmagi Spend some time testing different ideas. Buy all the things you think you could substitute with, make your original cake, then make a cake where you substitute the most expensive thing and see if it tastes the same. If it does, you note that. Then you do the same for all the substitutes. Once you've noted which ingredients you can substitute then you bake the finished substitute cake, see if that tastes the same as the original one, if it does you're fine. If it doesn't, then figure out why.