Blog #17: Interview #4 Questions

1. What is the best way to create a decorative art themed wedding cake?
2.When you sculpt, is their any process you have that helps you with complicated sculpting projects?
3. When their is confusion with an order, what is the best way to solve the confusion?
4. What is the best part about doing a new order?
5. When you take an order, what do you usually talk about with the customer?
6. What is your mentality when cake decorating?
7. Do you personally think that improvisation is an important skill to have as a cake decorator and why?
8. How do you determine the price of a certain sculpt?
9. How do you keep up with all of the orders that you do?
10. What is most interesting about doing wedding cakes?
11. Have you ever had any orders where you had to improvise and why?
12. Do you think that simplicity can be a good thing or a bad thing? Why?
13. Why do you think that color is such an important factor in a cake order?
14. Have their been any instances where you had to do change what you were already doing on a cake order? What happened?
15. I have noticed that you put ribbon on the bottom of some of the cakes. Why is that?
16. When you cover a cake with fondant, what is the most important thing you make sure of?
17. Can you tell me one of the best experiences you have had when doing an order and why?
18. When you finish an order, what are some feelings when you give the cake to the customer and why?
19. Besides being able to sculpt, are their any other important skills that a cake decorator might find useful?
20. What is the best piece of advice you can give to an aspiring cake decorator?

Blog #12: Third Interview Questions

The questions that I want to ask is:

1. What is the best way to create a decorative art themed wedding cake? (This is my Working EQ because it has not been approved yet.)
2. Did you take any special classes before becoming a cake artist/ baker?
3. What would say is best tip you can give to an aspiring baker?
4. What is the biggest milestone in your career and why?
5. Why did you go into this profession in the first place?
6. Are their any helpful college majors that could possibly help a baker in the future?
7. What sets you apart from other pastry shops?
8. What is one of the most difficult parts about owning your own pastry shop?
9. Can you tell me one of the best and most fun projects you have done?
10. Who inspires you to keep baking and owning your business?

Blog #6: Second Interview Questions

Content:

1. When did you start you business and why did you decide to start in the business of cake decorating??

2. How did you start baking?

3. Where did you get your inspiration for all your cake orders?

4. Give me an example of one of your hardest orders up to now.

5. Is there anyone in your family you look up to for inspiration?

Blog #3: Interview Preparation

Content:

A: 
-Who do you plan to interview?  Why?

• The person I plan to interview is my mentor, Kim Cruz. The reason I chose to interview her was because she is the one who is teaching me everything I need to know for my senior project, and the fact that I can contact her on Facebook, by phone, or by simply walking to her house, she is an easy interviewee to locate or contact at almost anytime.

B:

- You have to ask 5 questions.  What additional questions do you plan to ask?  Ask open-ended questions.  What are open-ended questions?

• Some additional questions I would ask is "Tell me how you got started in your business." and "How do you create the concepts behind your artwork?" The reason I would ask the open-ended questions are because I feel like the answer I am given from these questions will somehow help me later on in the projects to come. Also, the definition for "open-ended questions" is that of a question that can be asked in order to make the interviewee tell you more details that can help in creating anything from an essay to an article. It also adds more feeling in to what you are writing or describing.