Something New Under the Sun!

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 By Sister Cecelia

 For several years, New Skete Kitchens has been aided with their online store by the Goldbelly company in New York City. They set up the website with our information, take the orders along with shipping labels and any greetings, and send them via computer to us. We make the products, pack them, and ship them by UPS with the labels and greetings they send.

To prepare advertising videos of some of their many vendors of gourmet products, on a recent Thursday a three-man crew came from Goldbelly.  The men arrived early and filmed a lot of the work in the bakery.  They interviewed Sister Patricia and me about our life and how and why we began making cheesecakes. Not many, if any, of their vendors are a nuns’ monastery, so they asked a lot about our life. I imagine that is why toward the end of our matins they quietly took some shots in our little chapel.

 They explained that they are planning three main videos: (1) Something about our life and how we decided to make the cheesecakes. (2) All about the Deluxe cheesecake, which is our best seller, and the Sampler, also a best seller. (3) Our fruitcake and what makes it so special.

 One of our employees is very musical, and the crew videoed her playing her guitar and singing a little ditty she had composed about making cheesecakes for Goldbelly. The crew made the taping outdoors so they could get a view of the foliage on that beautiful fall morning. It will be 6 or 8 weeks before we can see the edited versions of their morning’s work.

 We learned from them that we are rated in their top ten vendors and No. 1 in customer satisfaction with fewest complaints. They work with more than 800 other vendors. It pleases us a lot to know that what we and our employees are doing is being done well—a typical monastic goal.

The crew finished up close to noon. Then they enjoyed being introduced to our two German Shepherds, Hetti and Gana.

 






 

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