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"We're not simply absorbing rising
costs — we're rethinking how we oper-
ate," Cutter says.
Back in Belfast, at the Scone
Goddess, Stubbs is looking at invest-
ing in automation. For now at least, she
prefers to keep her business scrappy, like
the chocolate factory immortalized in
an episode of 1950s television sitcom "I
Love Lucy," where two friends gobble
down sweets coming off the assembly
line; hilarity ensues when the pace picks
up with a frenzy.
"I enjoy the Lucy and Ethel type of
vibe we have with everyone pitching in,
elbows deep in flour and pink raspberry
dust," she says.
Renee Cordes, Mainebiz deputy editor,
can be reached at rcordes
@
mainebiz.biz
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P H O T O / J I M N E U G E R
Ashlee Ataya bags the Scone Goddess's
coconut chocolate chip scone mix at the
company's production site in Belfast.
