Anonymous wrote:I'm not a baker, so maybe I'm just really naive, but tarts are quite shallow, so I'm assuming far less food cost than an actual pie... yet seemingly 2x to 2.5x the price. $150 for two 8" tarts I'm picking up tomorrow. Are they just charging what they think UMC people will pay for pretty tarts during a holiday or is there justification for such a cost?

Demand is a justification of the price of what is a luxury item. If you really hated the price, you would have said no and then bought a pie from Harris Teeter or Safeway. What amazes me if drug companies’ justification for the prices of life saving things like insulin. My cancer treatments are $800 a pill. I take 21 pills a month. Thank God for my prescription plan. I wish I could just get a generic.

UMC who are real UMC aren't paying that much for a tart. Rich people do.

Here’s the thing - there is always a “floor” for how little it may cost but there is not much of a “ceiling”. Sky’s the limit! I’m sure if OP named where these came from we’d be like oh well yeah that’s why. If you don’t want to pay for luxury dessert, shop elsewhere. Someone else will buy it.

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Anonymous wrote:Wait. EIGHT INCHES? Seriously? Are you sure? Because that's insanely small.

Less is more. I'll never understand why gluttonous Americans think they need gigantic pieces of cake, pie and tarts -- after a huge meal, no less.

Gtfoh

That is costly indeed. I know all the expensive, organic and delicious patisseries in Paris and have never paid that much.

You need to call them and ask about this.

Anonymous wrote:Wait. EIGHT INCHES? Seriously? Are you sure? Because that's insanely small.

Less is more. I'll never understand why gluttonous Americans think they need gigantic pieces of cake, pie and tarts -- after a huge meal, no less.

Truly insane. $50 max and even that is high.

Wait. EIGHT INCHES? Seriously? Are you sure? Because that's insanely small.

All organic materials. Out of season berries. Even Safeway charges $30 for a large fruit tart made with crap.

To be fair, people pay nearly $100 for those crepe cakes, which don't even taste good. They just look cool.

If you want that bakery to stay in business and not let go all of ours employees then us that's a good price. Also consider the cost of scarcity. It's nearly impossible to find butter and suet these days.

I mean I think $75 is crazy expensive for a tart! But also, as a baker, tarts are harder/more time-consuming for me because you have to carefully select and slice the fruit really precisely so it's laid out in a visually pleasing manner whereas with a pie, it's all squished up and covered by the top crust. So a pie will take me less than 30 minutes to get into the oven start to finish (maybe a little longer if I'm doing a lattice crust or something fancy) but a tart or glace pie can take up to an hour.

But $75 is still a ripoff. I hope it has gold leaf on top or something.

I gave my husband crap for getting a $45 pie. I'd sh*t a tart if he paid $75 one.