The production list decides the day's profit. Yesterday's sales, today's pre-orders and the weather feed a number that has to be right at four in the morning, because there is no second chance at eleven.
Recipes need costing, not estimating. Flour, butter and energy move constantly, and a price set two years ago on ingredients that have doubled is how a bestselling line quietly loses money.
Cake orders are jobs, not sales. A date, a specification, a deposit and a collection time, tracked from order to handover — a note on a pad is how the wrong name ends up piped on a cake.
Wholesale runs on standing orders. Regular quantities per customer per day, adjusted by exception, with an invoice at the end of the month: it behaves nothing like counter trade and it should not share a till.