We operate a crêpe cart making fresh food to order using fresh, local ingredients. You can find us at Farmers Markets and selected of events in the Silverton/Salem/Mid-Oregon area. View our schedule or follow us on Twitter oregoncrepe for the latest info.
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It is that time to get ready to make crêpes. Our first market opens in 10 days. There are a few changes we want to make – we bought a slicer, so we will be buying more local meats and slicing them ourselves, which we have wanted to do for a long time.
Based on feedback from customers, we’re going to change some of our custom crêpes. Our smoked salmon will be a lighter recipe, we’ll be adding a local blue cheese option to the choices for many crêpes, and we’l have a few surprises and specials as the seasons progress.
We may make $120 this year from selling one crêpe. How? Time and repeat business. Say a crêpe sells for 6 dollars, and we have 20 sale days at a particular weekly farmers market. In the best case, the customer likes … Continue reading
Increasing sales is of no use unless you know are making a profit on those sales. The old saying “we lose a little bit on every sale but make it up in volume, ” sadly often turns out to be … Continue reading
What is a sale? A Sale is the result of an intersection between desire, ability, trust and opportunity. A person has a desire for an outcome, they have the means and the ability to be in the location where the … Continue reading
A number of the blogs and forums I read for small business – especially for restaurants, concessionaires and food trucks are filled with questions about increasing sales. There are so many ways to spend hard earned dollars to get … Continue reading
We decided to cut our schedule down to 4 markets this year to give us a little time off and time to prep some new menu items. We have submitted our application to 4 Farmers Markets for 2012, and have … Continue reading
2012, start of year 2 here at Oregon Crêpe Company, LLC. We had a good first year. Bouyed by our modest success, and realizing that spring is just a few months away, it is time to begin pre-planning. We’ve … Continue reading
After the old digital camera died, we purchased one that does movies too. Just standing at the market I took this one of Lynne making a sweet crêpe at the McMinnvile Public Market.
Whew. 125 130 markets and events. 125 130 (3 with the new winch) times loading and unloading our cart, setting up the tent, creating our portable restaurant. And making a LOT of crêpes. We ended up at the McMinnville Public Market in November and … Continue reading
October starts this Saturday. We have 14 more farmers markets, then our first full business season is over. We have started shifting to our winter fruit, bringing local Pear with Brie and Raspberry jam crêpes back on the menu. We … Continue reading