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McMillan's Bakery
Since 1939, this South Jersey bakery has been turning out the ultimate in comfort fare: crispy cake doughnuts whose centers have been cut open to make room for copious clouds of extra-sweet, extra-secret-recipe white cream filling. Or go for the cake-like cream cheese and fruit muffins, raisin “tea biscuit” scones, thickly iced cupcakes, and 60 varieties of cookies: classic chocolate-dipped brown derbies, nut-and-chip-chocked Hollywood Hills, and lumpy, confectioner’s-sugar-dusted Cape Mays that are thick with raisins, whole walnuts and dried apricots.
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I have been patronizing this bakery since I was a small child in the 70s. While I have yet to have baked goods as tasty as the ones here, their business model is changing and I'm not certain for the best. While a lot of customers complained at their $1.00 to $1.35 a donut price hike a few years ago, their new, more underhanded tactic (smaller portions) has resulted in a lower-quality product. Certainly in the cream donuts, which over the past few months have decreased by at least 20% in size, the difference is in quantity alone. But my favorite item, the raisin "tea biscuit" is now, due to its smaller size, a lot drier and less flavorful. While I don't mind paying extra to keep a local business afloat, what amount to a 50% price increase over 5 years is sheer greed on the part of an establishment which has been around for almost a century.
Posted by Jennifer: Nov. November 30th, 2007 at 4:09 PM
| Overall (8) | Food (10) | Service (10) |
| Decor (5) | Value (4) | Average (7.40) |
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I have been patronizing this bakery since I was a small child in the 70s. While I have yet to have baked goods as tasty as the ones here, their business model is changing and I'm not certain for the best. While a lot of customers complained at their $1.00 to $1.35 a donut price hike a few years ago, their new, more underhanded tactic (smaller portions) has resulted in a lower-quality product. Certainly in the cream donuts, which over the past few months have decreased by at least 20% in size, the difference is in quantity alone. But my favorite item, the raisin "tea biscuit" is now, due to its smaller size, a lot drier and less flavorful. While I don't mind paying extra to keep a local business afloat, what amount to a 50% price increase over 5 years is sheer greed on the part of an establishment which has been around for almost a century.
Posted by Jennifer: Nov. November 30th, 2007 at 4:09 PM
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