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| - Drama, Drama, and More Drama.
This review is for the event planning/wedding cake departments only. I actually like the rest of the store.
We had previously arranged for an appointment to talk with the cake department, but when we arrived, we were told that the cake decorator had left for the day without plans to return. We were then shuttled to talk with the event planning department about cake pricing options. The event planner was cold, and odd, and definitely not in a good mood. (For brevity and to protect her anonymity, I'll call her stormy.)
Stormy then gave us a wedding cake catalog with decorating ideas and pricing. This is a bit of an overstatement, actually, since they make it intentionally difficult to figure out the price, hiding charges in five or six components and not being clear about any of them.
I went to ask for help from stormy, but imagine my surprise when I found she was busy frantically scribbling a letter to Giant Eagle H.R. about how she absolutely can't get along with another person in her department and how they were always cold and frosty with each other and storming in and out of workplaces when they were around each other. I didn't see the whole letter, but that was the gist of it. As I was trying to ask a question, stormy excused herself and said she "had to get something for us." She took the hand written letter away and came back a good while later, having delivered her letter but not with anything to help us with our search.
Eventually, a replacement cake decorator came to our table with samples (good cake, by the way.) The replacement decorator apologized for the "drama in the department," which I appreciated. We asked her to help us decipher the pricing, and she gave us some quotes, but then stormy said those quotes were no good, and she would have to look them up in her book. And then stormy herself became confused and couldn't figure out how much a particular cake would be, since they seem to have recently instituted a more expensive pricing structure.
Between the two employees, they weren't sure if filling was extra or not, and if it was extra, much it would cost. Same with whether the cake structure could be modified, and if so, how much that would cost. They weren't sure how many servings were in a particular cake, (which seems to have changed recently) and thus, how much it would actually cost.
But the general gist is that the cakes are overpriced and about 40% more than local bakeries.
The sad thing is that we really liked the cake there, and we would have liked to buy it from Giant Eagle. But considering the ordering drama, we couldn't trust them to deliver a good wedding cake, so we ordered somewhere else.
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