https://padlet.com/wildrice7423/cbwfi4kl3zsdinbe en-us 2023-02-27 16:06:56 UTC 2025-09-25 02:36:30 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/wildrice7423/cbwfi4kl3zsdinbe/wish/2497981182 With $5,000, King rented her first bakery at 21, in 1980, and began wholesaling Kathleen's Cookies at farm stands. Three years later, she bought her first bakeshop — the home of Tate's today — with a $50,000 down payment and sold homemade cookies as Kathleen's Bake Shop. ]]> 2023-02-28 13:55:12 UTC https://padlet.com/wildrice7423/cbwfi4kl3zsdinbe/wish/2497981182 wildrice7423 https://padlet.com/wildrice7423/cbwfi4kl3zsdinbe/wish/2502666606
She set her sights on the oven at age 11, baking cookies to sell for a bargain at her father's farm stand — six for $0.59. With a lot of consumer love and little competition, she grew her business enough to spend her high school summers baking ten hours a day, seven days a week, she said.

]]> 2023-03-03 14:08:22 UTC https://padlet.com/wildrice7423/cbwfi4kl3zsdinbe/wish/2502666606 wildrice7423 https://padlet.com/wildrice7423/cbwfi4kl3zsdinbe/wish/2502669749 In 1999, King brought on her bookkeeper and his brother to help expand her business. Having already established a relationship with the former, King made the move in good faith and under the agreement that the partners would help expand Kathleen's Bake Shop's national efforts while she would remain CEO and run the business side.]]> 2023-03-03 14:10:14 UTC https://padlet.com/wildrice7423/cbwfi4kl3zsdinbe/wish/2502669749 wildrice7423 https://padlet.com/wildrice7423/cbwfi4kl3zsdinbe/wish/2502674006 King took the partners to court, where they reached a compromise: They walked away with the rights to use the name Kathleen's Bake Shop and she walked away with the rights to her property — and a third of the company's debt, around $200,000.]]> 2023-03-03 14:13:20 UTC https://padlet.com/wildrice7423/cbwfi4kl3zsdinbe/wish/2502674006 wildrice7423 https://padlet.com/wildrice7423/cbwfi4kl3zsdinbe/wish/2502675236 Despite leaving a well-known brand behind, King's quality baking and supportive community quickly helped propel her new venture, Tate's Bake Shop, to success. She paid off the debt and by 2003, Tate's was guesstimated to be back at its $3 million annual revenue mark, she said.]]> 2023-03-03 14:14:19 UTC https://padlet.com/wildrice7423/cbwfi4kl3zsdinbe/wish/2502675236 wildrice7423 https://padlet.com/wildrice7423/cbwfi4kl3zsdinbe/wish/2502676857 When she started Tate's at age 40, King told herself that when she turned 55, she would retire because she had sacrificed her whole youth working.]]> 2023-03-03 14:15:30 UTC https://padlet.com/wildrice7423/cbwfi4kl3zsdinbe/wish/2502676857 wildrice7423 https://padlet.com/wildrice7423/cbwfi4kl3zsdinbe/wish/2502681354 Kathleen first started with nestle cookie dough, and made her own recipe out of it. Kathleen also need utensils and other things to make the cookies ]]> 2023-03-03 14:19:01 UTC https://padlet.com/wildrice7423/cbwfi4kl3zsdinbe/wish/2502681354 wildrice7423 https://padlet.com/wildrice7423/cbwfi4kl3zsdinbe/wish/2502683133 In June, Riverside sold Tate's for $500 million to Mondolēz International, who has increased cookie production from 1.5 million cookies a week to one million cookies a day. King is officially out of the business and finally retired — at least for now.]]> 2023-03-03 14:20:26 UTC https://padlet.com/wildrice7423/cbwfi4kl3zsdinbe/wish/2502683133