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Come on - your local bakery (even if it's a chain, even if you don't like it as much as you used to) is a low-margin enterprise. Getting screwed out of thousands of dollars is tough on places like that.

Plus that was just the example. If they were net-30 on the break room food, it's a safe bet a bunch of freelancers and other local businesses also had losses.

This particular bakery was pretty legendary for a long time in the bay area.

Translation: they don't deserve as much empathy from me because they make crappy cakes.

Which is a corollary of people making awesome things deserving more empathy than usual.

;).

We got our wedding cake from the Prolific Oven ten years ago. It was /amazing/. Sad to hear they've taken a dive.