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Brilliant Business Idea: Sell Cookies Like a Crack Dealer

Feb 21, 2011 06:07 PM

$1 for a Cookie - Self-serve sign on brown paper bag

Sometimes entrepreneurial inspiration comes from the oddest of places— such as, say, down-and-out crack dealer delivery methods. Inspired by HBO's The Wire, Kathleen and Clem of Fat Cookies are attracting a crowd with an atypical model for vending baked goods: oven fresh cookies are lowered via string in exchange for one hoisted dollar (1. pull a string, 2. attach a dollar, 3. get a cookie).

If you happen to be near San Francisco's Dolores Park, stop by and tell us how it is.

Person looking out of a window of a colorful apartment building.

Sign advertising $2 cookies with instructions to call for orders.

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