Our biggest problem has been thatno matter how many notes, e-mails and phone calls we made when the cookie dough was to be delivered we still had many that would not pick these things up. We had 18 boxes still in the school freezer the third week back from Christmas Vacation. Our delivery was December 3rd. We finally sent home notes stating if it wasn't picked up by a certain date, it would be sold to the higgest bidder and their would be NO REFUNDS on the merchandise they did not pick up. We had many parents up there the following day. We had a good profit though ($12500.00 last year and $8000.00 this year)!
WOW! What a profit! That is great. You really have supporting parents. We closed our sale today and I was mistaken of our profit last year. We made $2500 and today we closed with a profit of $3500. That's $1000 more and with 450 students with primarly K-3rd selling, I think we did great. For some reason 4th & 5th graders don't sale as much. I guess its not cool to sale to neighbors at that age!! We work with a great company and we have already planned to do it again next year but will try to get a fall date since I think we will do even better to have delivered just before holiday baking starts! Good Luck with your sale! [img]smile.gif[/img]
We have sold cookie dough for the past two years, this year we sold $89000 worth of cookie dough--with a profit of $40000. We are a large school with almost 1200 students (pk-5). We still have people asking if we have extra left over and we received it in November. Everybody loves cookie dough. Good Luck
Our school has done well with cookie dough the last two years. It is delivered to our school on pallets by flavor. We have 8 flavors. I have them set up exactly like the order form. Parents bring their copy to the gym (where we set up). We pull the original copy and fill the order at that time. I usually get some high school students to fill the orders for community credits.
As for cost, we sell them all for $10 a bucket, choosing easy bookkeeping over a higher profit. We paid $5.33 for 6 of the flavors and just over $6 for the two premium flavors. We could have charged more, but we felt that by selling them all for $10, we could make up the difference in quanity. We did. Our sales last year ran for just under 3 weeks. This year we ran it 9 days total.
The only drawbacks are:
1. Parents lose their copy if sent home too early before pick up date. I handled this problem by not sending home their copy until 3 or 4 days before pick up. I still had a few that said they didn't get theirs, but 99% had theirs.
2. It takes more than one day for pick up. I handled this by storing the dough in our cafeteria refridgerator/freezer. At the end of the first day, there actually shouldn't be more than 15-20 orders left. CALL THEM and set up pick up dates and times. I also do pick up on one Saturday (from 11 - 2 worked best). Again I use high school students. At the worst, you are looking at the initial delivery date, 3 hours on a Saturday and one or two mornings at the school. You can use the mornings to help out around the office or read to classes.
3. Make sure you order extra. I covered my own butt on this by ordering 2 extra of each flavor. This covers any errors, like accidentally giving Mrs. Jones flavor A when she actually ordered B. It happens. Then, I sell the left over cookie dough (believe me it sells itself) or make cookies out of it to treat the staff. This year, I came up with Cookies And Cream (milk) parties for the top selling classrooms (instead of pizza). I was able to get rid of all the dough, made a tidy $7K+ profit, do my parties for less than $10 per class (try doing that with pizza and soda!) and it actually required very little work on my part.
Good Luck!
Note: I re-read this and noticed a lot of "I", "Me" and "My". I should point out that last year, WE as a PTO did this. This year, "I" as head of Site Council did it when PTO chose to do basket raffles instead.
We sold the dough last year and made $3,000 and our orders for this year are to be turned in this Friday. We wasn't sure if we were going to do it again but had so many parents asking for us to. Its easy and their good cookies!! We turn in orders this Friday and the company delivers the tub's in a refrig. truck on 2/13. They will stay from 2:30 until 5:30 to make it easy for the parents to pick them up. Its O.K. to send home with bus students (small order) since they keep frozen up to 3 hours and this gives them time to get home. If its a large order we try to make arrangements with parents to pick up. I will tell you how we do next week. Our company is Classic Cookie in Sevierville, TN. Great to work with!!! [img]tongue.gif[/img]
The cookie dough we sold was $7 a tub and we made $3 from each tub. We sold for 2 weeks and made about $2200.
The problem we had was getting all the orders sorted before the parents arrived to pick it up. Our cookie dough was delivered around 2:30 and we had the parents picking it up after school, which is 3:00. So, make sure you give yourself enough time to have all the orders sorted before pick up.
Other than that we were real happy with the results. We sold it the first 2 weeks of December and told the parents it would be delivered in time for their holiday baking!
