Joe Corbi's cookie dough is wonderful and delivery is easy as well. Tons of flavors and they taste great. They also offer pretzels & make your own pizza's. Its worth checking out and the rep will usually send you a free sample.
We are also selling Otis Spunkmeyer through Kathryn Beich. They are a great company, and our rep is superb! We just attended her annual luncheon and walked away with lots of free chocolate and a bag of treats. We also got a free lunch and got to sample assorted baked goods.
Your issues seem to be the same ones I've come across in working with cookie dough through the years. We are currently selling Otis Spunkmeyer through Kathryn Beich and are in the same position as you. The things that keep us with this program are quality product, good sales, and lots of repeat customers. In all honesty, our rep comes and helps us with the delivery and that helps a LOT. I can not tell you how much I have come to depend on her. I'm not sure we'd be so keen to continue without all of those things combined. In case this is the compnay you are with, it might be of advantage for you to know that they are offering to sort orders by student next year for a small fee-I think it's $.50 per student but I'm not 100% on that. It is definately something we are looking forward to enjoying.
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I live in Southern Missouri, and we had a meeting with a company called School Partners based out of Little Rock, AR. just last week. They guarantee 50% profit, and they are also picking up Auntie Anne's pretzels next year! Yum! If you have 2 fundraisers with them in one school year, they bring several huge inflatables for a mega party. We are very seriously considering trying them out next year.
We have also used Red Wheel Fundraising for the past 5-6 years. They are very good to work with. They have a graduated profit of 40-55%.
If you want I can email you the info.
Jewelz
We used www.keyprofits.com
and received 50% profit. I can't remember how it was sorted, but we made a lot of money. The only difference is that we don't do frozen cookie dough any more because we never knew what to do with it when parents didn't show up. It's alot easier to us dry instead of frozen.
My experience with cookie dough is that even though it is a lot of work, it makes our school a lot of money. Our profit is 40% as well. We used Red Apple this year, and with the company's new buyout we experienced a ton of customer service issues. More so with the gift wrap end of the business (we do both the gift wrap and cookie dough at the same time). Our reason for going with them was the "Otis Spunkemeyer" cookie dough brand (sorry if the spelling is worng:) Our families like this cookie more than any other! However, due to the horrible customer service we may look into Kathryn Beich as they are now able to sell the Otis brand. Hope your fundraiser does well!
