Little buisiness and hobbies - a bit disappointed

I’m playing a sweet shop at the moment and in the last couple of sim days it’s just taken off.  It’s the Candy Labs shop that I think came with the pack.  I’ve got a coffee bar as well as counters selling lollipops etc, but to start with customers just bought stuff from the coffee bar and weren’t interested in the actual sweets. That was pretty disappointing — especially when all the food started to go off and I had to throw it away! I didn’t make much money!

So I decided to sell off at clearance price all the sweets that had about a day left before going off. Suddenly all the customers got interested in the sweets! I sold almost everything, and for the first time made more money from selling sweets than from selling items from the coffee bar! I then made more sweets and sold them cheaply too, and got more sales and more happy customers — which meant my business started to get a better reputation, which meant more people came, and I could gradually increase my prices and still sell plenty of sweets. I hired my first employee today. I couldn’t afford it before, but now I can and I really need the extra help because one sim can’t handle everything alone any more, and there is no shortage of customers! And I haven’t even thought yet about offering classes or mentoring etc.