After all of these years…

So here we are, a few years and dozens (hundreds?) of deliveries later! I’m still your friendly neighborhood Delivery Boy, but I don’t have the chance very often to reach out and connect. I want to try to get back into the habit…

What’s new? Well, let me count the ways. Stella and Penny, the chiefs of this particular operation, now wear…

Each year, the Community Foundation of the Mahoning Valley and the Mahoning Valley Young Professionals honor 40 people who are making an impact in their chosen professions and demonstrate a commitment to community involvement.

​As the self-appointed “marketing staff” at The Cake Boutique, your humble delivery boy is always looking for ways to promote the wonderful products the Cake Ladies produce.

​So… I spend a bit of time on the wedding boards at a couple of different Web sites, looking for new ideas that I can share with the Cake Ladies in exchange for some free samples.

It was sometime in the summer of 2010. The cakes were flying out of the kitchen, the orders were coming in fast, and the brand new Cake Boutique was already at a crossroads.

​Ahhh, the busy season. Lots of delivering going on these days, which keeps me away from the keyboard most of the time. But I heard something the other day from a professional photographer and had to pass it along.

​Yes, it’s been a while since I haunted this space. Gearing up for wedding season keeps a delivery boy busy.

​We live in interesting times, in this business. I was surprised over the weekend to discover two new cake shops I hadn’t heard of in my so-called “market research"...

​It’s a quiet time in the wedding business, and therefore also in the cake delivery business. I suppose the winter gives us a chance to recover from the really busy fall season and the holiday cookie crunch, and to...

The Delivery Boy has been pretty quiet of late. It seems that there are fewer deliveries at this time of the year, and therefore somewhat less to talk about.