WBZ: An allergen-free bakery may close soon, but not because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The owner said poor treatment from customers is making her consider shutting down. Jennifer Lasala, of Jennifer Lee’s Bakery with locations in Worcester and the Boston Public Market, said she’s faced aggressive comments towards her business.
“I had a customer, he ordered too late, and he told me I ruined his son’s weekend and told me he hopes the business closes,” Lasala said. “It just really hurt.”
Lee said she’s heard similar experiences from other people working retail and service jobs who have had customers who are meaner than usual. She also believes people act differently online than in person.
On Monday, Lee wrote a post on the bakery Facebook page that explained why she might consider closing:
It saddens me to say this but this might be it for our Bakery. I have worked so hard for almost 10 years with this Bakery and unfortunately I don’t know if I want to do this anymore. I work so hard to make everybody happy and it just doesn’t matter. I work so hard to have a safe place for people that others in the restaurant industry just ignore. The amount of mean messages I received over this weekend is just too much and I just don’t know if I want to do this anymore. I think people don’t realize that I too am human. I worked so hard to build what we have ,my working multiple jobs to afford it not paying myself still, and even now in a pandemic, I haven’t received even a cent in any grant money but here I am still going still trying to keep this dream alive and people are just so mean and just ripping me apart. I try so hard to be as transparent as possible and let everyone know how to order, deadlines, etc so there’s no mistakes and it is just not good enough. I work 20 hr days and it’s not good enough. We will still have Mother’s Day orders this weekend but after that I don’t know…I don’t know if I want this for the rest of my life. I’m sorry.
But, after writing this post, Lasala was sent messages of love and support.
“During one of my deliveries, a little boy left me a note at the door and it literally was a heart that said ‘Jen, please don’t go,'” Lasala said.
Are you fucking kidding me right now? We’re in the middle of a pandemic and you have the luxury of having a business that is so successful that you have franchises in Worcester and Boston with more customers than you can handle. And you’re whining because an asshole customer hurt your feelings? You ran to Facebook to post about how you wanted to quit over it, and all you got in return was hundreds of comments supporting you and free advertising from WBZ? You chose to open an allergen free bakery for overprotective mothers. Who the hell did you think your client base was gonna be?
This part killed me.
“I have outgrown Worcester Public Market in two weeks.”
Oh fuck off.
Meanwhile she’s on Facebook trashing customers for being shitty too.
I really just cannot believe that this chick who has the luxury of making bank while all of her neighbors wonder when they’ll be allowed to reopen again, is so tone deaf that she’d victimize herself on social media for free advertising. She’s just a baby soft millennial coddled by enablers and the mainstream media, and the stunt she just pulled is a slap in the face to business owners everywhere. Every business since the beginning of time has had to find a way to deal with assholes. You’re not special. If you can’t handle it then learn to code and go on unemployment like the rest of us.
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According to the comments the consensus is that this girl has magnificent mammaries
Jennifer, It’s retail. It’s a bitch. Why has it taken you this long to figure it out?
Damn..Classic case of Bernie withdrawal syndrome going on with this girl.
Retail ANYTHING is the absolute worst, but especially food service. People are unfiltered shit. I think this skeezer knows that, but it just playing it up to get sympathy and support for being a ‘poor widdew girl’. Who says sexism is dead? She’s just another fake feminist hypocrite.
For ten years?! When did she open, middle school? Not gonna lie, though. I’d fuck the immortal soul out of her body.
We’ve turned into a society of victims, virtue signalers, and wannabe ballers. Pretty sad.
Your seeing the tip of the iceberg with this dumpster fire. She has several fundraisers EVERY year to ‘keep her business open’ while stiffing college kids she pays under the table and takes the money to Vegas. Dig deeper with this POS, you’ll love what you find.
They called us names.
THEY CALLED US NAMES!!!!!!
Pretentious, huge ego, self absorbed & delusional. Six max!
I don’t think you copy and pasted her “maybe farewell” post enough times. I only got to read it 4 times instead of the traditional 6.
“It saddens me to say this but this might be it for our Bakery. I have worked so hard for almost 10 years with this Bakery and unfortunately I don’t know if I want to do this anymore. I work so hard to make everybody happy and it just doesn’t matter. I work so hard to have a safe place for people that others in the restaurant industry just ignore. The amount of mean messages I received over this weekend is just too much and I just don’t know if I want to do this anymore. I think people don’t realize that I too am human. I worked so hard to build what we have ,my working multiple jobs to afford it not paying myself still, and even now in a pandemic, I haven’t received even a cent in any grant money but here I am still going still trying to keep this dream alive and people are just so mean and just ripping me apart. I try so hard to be as transparent as possible and let everyone know how to order, deadlines, etc so there’s no mistakes and it is just not good enough. I work 20 hr days and it’s not good enough. We will still have Mother’s Day orders this weekend but after that I don’t know…I don’t know if I want this for the rest of my life. I’m sorry.”
Jennifer Lee – be real. Look at your target market. It is the “allergen free” segment of society.
OK, so maybe there are some people that due to genetic problems, health problems, or vaccine reactions, they have problems with digestion of “normal food”, and with the absorption of nutrients.
But… A large number of your clientele is going to be hypochondriacs and people with mental disorders.
Gluten free? Where would humanity be if people were unable to absorb wheat protein? Would civilization have even started without the farming of grains? The ancestors of your present customers would have starved if they hadn’t been able to eat grains.
You are selling a product to a large number of fruitcakes, excuse the pun. There is going to be some customer relationship issues when dealing with these people. That’s the cost of doing business.
Make sure you price your product in such a way that it makes it worth while.
And while I’m giving you business advice, come up with a new brand and recipe for hash brownies, and market it through the head shops. You’ll do good.
There is no excuse for being a rude, mean, nasty person. Treat people the way you want to be treated. However, when someone is rude and nasty, instead of refusing to serve them, we tend to give them priority, because as the saying goes, “the squeaky wheel gets the grease.” When they call on the telephone, “I want to speak to your manager,” seems to be the calling card, in an attempt to try to intimidate you.
You are 100% right. Our society has taught people that being a jerk will get you what you want so that is the way people act. It sucks and the only way to fix it is to tell these people to fuck off in the most direct way possible.
As far as the person in this article goes, i have ZERO doubt that people have been rude or mean to her and probably even more so recently. Seems like people have taken the “pandemic” as an excuse to be extra shitty to each other. She simply needs to tell them to fuck off, not close her business.
“Are you fucking kidding me right now? We’re in the middle of a pandemic”
-Source TB this article
so is it a pandemic? Or should we all revolt and go about our lives normally?
You’re sending mixed messages. The unwashed masses who read this stuff from their parents basement need to know.
Exactly! TB needs to get back on track.
If she closes the bakery, I got a job for her…
Because if anybody knows anything about posting for attention, it’s Turtle Boy.
I love this site and the quality of reporting.
You’d be just like Ellen Degenerous if Ellen was a little bit shorter and worked out of her basement.
Keep up the great work informing the general public with these gritty stories. .
Typical fantasy world liberal.
Now, welcome to the real world sweetheart, people suck.
It is actually even worse. She is only doing this because of the positive viral attention being heaped on a mashpee ice cream parlor owner whose closed back up after only one day of reopening due to the attitudes of customers and treatment of a particular 17yo employee. He did the right thing and said “f*ck you get your ice cream elswhere if your gonna be trash”. She is simply crying for the same possitive reinforcement by threatening to have the balls to do the same. And of course pretty blonde libby with vegan f*ckin cupcakes fits any msm agenda far better than the original hard working immigrant man who probably votes conservatively. Stay sharp TB yoou should have caught this.
Desperate for attention. Weird hair and eyelashes. A bat necklace? Tattoos advertise a visit from Hep C. Lipstick is 1940s and gross. Maybe seen as hip by the gay tranny sect but dull as crap and so yesterday to anyone else. Like faded avant garde clothing from a vintage yesteryear store. Vague resemblance to the woman who knifed the white gang-banger wannabe in the park when he turned his back. Jealous of the attention the other woman got for sticking the gang-banger. Only radio, and not TV, picked this up — wonder why.
Point of order: That bat necklace is an homage to one of the sweetest pieces of tail in television history, Lily Munster.
There are two reasons why TV picked this story up. Those luscious yabos.
Yowza.
Fatty Tatty has thicker skin than that, and opted for ‘all publicity is good publicity’ with a pout and sob story about mean people. she has no intention of closing up shop, unless it is Covid related, and wanted to take a swipe at customers on the way out. no cake for you!
Look, people are assholes, just ask the guy down in Mashpee. That was a lot worse than you experience there. Dozens of people, not just one at a time. Be grateful you didn’t lose your business.
So, what in the fuck is the “new normal”? Are one of this so called journalists going to ask the Governor?
I am not wearing a mask for the rest of my life in public
I am not waiting in friggin line to go into Home Depot
I am not being told, sorry, we can’t seat you, we have reached 50% capacity
I am not spending 3 weeks trying to find paper towels
I am not going shopping and being told I can have one package of ass meat for my cookout
Stop fucking telling me “were all in this together”
Speak of which, wait until the heat of summer and some family, oh, possibly a minority is turned away at the beach due to restrictions. Oh you wait until Jessie Jackson, Reverand Al, Curly Neal..i mean Ayanna Pressley with their token honkeys Markie and Joe III start walking arm and arm down the street chanting as if this was 1955.
I just pissed myself Mr. Leahy. “Curly Neal”. Priceless.
She’s just trying to set herself up for a gofundme, just like the teenage girl on the news this morning who quit her job at an ice cream parlor because someone called her names. That girl has already raised thousands. You have to be shameless to pull this crap but you also have to blame the dumbasses out there who actually donate to these type of “victim” people.
Any bet on how she’s going to cry over this publicity?
She’s covered in tattoos. That tells me all I need to know about her. Fucking mental case.
She thinks an asshole who couldn’t order his brownies was bad… wait until she reads these comments.
Get another fucking stupid tattoo. That’ll make you feel better for about a day or two…
Jen needs a good old fashioned spit roast to melt away all her stress. What’s with her nose ? I wouldn’t buy food products from a person that looks like her. Gotta wonder about her hygiene, she looks dirty, and cummy.
Still totally would though. But then again I have no conscience or moral compass. Even still it’s been a while for this retired gramps since I got laid. Last time was the Apollo moon landing July 20th 1969, her name was Beatrice and she was quite the young filly looking to trot. Wowza what a dish. Anyone see my dentures? This nursing home sucks today but the Rona didn’t get me boys. Killed Ferguson down the hall, fuck him he always stole my apple sauce. Nurse, NURSE!!!!
I bet Beatrice faked her orgasm while Hollywood faked the moon landing.
I would certainly give her filthy sanchez with my thick jew cock
The reopening is happening, albeit slowly.
Miss your mom, looking forward to giving her a dirty sanchez in the shape of the Star of David!
Nice cans.
That is one HELLACIOUS set of yaboes!
Look at the fun-bags on that hose-hound..
Muffins spelled backwards = Joe Biden’s MO.
i meant to ask youse if you knew that cummings first name is spelt with two e’s.
Yes doll… Edward Estlin. But you probably knew that already. Is this some type of zen riddle? 😉
the sound of one foot tapping….
Working with the public and owning a small business is incredibly stressful. I would think Uncle would have some empathy given the trials and tribulations of TBS (not to mention the legal stuff).
That being said, she has spectacular cans so she gets a pass from me.
“spectacular cans”
Could you be a little more specific?
Africans? Mexicans? Puerto Ricans?
Titas
Juggs
Sweater Puppies
Hogans
Milkers
Heavy Hangers
I don’t even know what this article is about but I just wanted to talk some sports. Is that gay?
Ok, so the baker is whiny. But since some food allergies are deadly, let’s not call moms who don’t want to watch their kid die of an anaphylactic reaction in 10 minutes “overprotective.”
Did you say penis free? I hope not.
A cupcake-making cupcake.
Worthless piece of shit slut bitch. Trash dumpsterwhore. Fucking cunt.
Go run away with Jewmerica, he’s anti-pussy just like you.
People who write these over the top comments like this are usually leftwing fakers doing it on purpose. Just like how they create fake hate crime hoaxes on college campuses.
The bad guy caricature they conjured up in their mind doesn’t exist in as great a number as they want it to, so they create hoaxes.
Sense in sometimes senseless comment board!
Shut. The. Fuck. Up.
I’m a fucking tough guy. I’ll kick anyone who crosses me, right in the ass.
Stop waking me up from my dreams asshole.
Uh oh, we have a tough guy, everybody run!
Just kidding, not scared, I know full well you R a pussy!
you seem familiar with the periods after every couple of words. Do you enjoy young boys still?
Instead of giving this snowflake the attention she craves, they should do a story on a successful bakery that deals with shitty people day in and day out and moves on. Thats the idea of serving the public. Take the good with the bad and make the best of it. Move her bakery into the ghetto and toughen her up.
Gee, I wonder who the asshole customer was. Let’s see … Worcester. Hmmm …
Fart noises to you and everything you write.
So she’s bored with running a bakery. I wonder what impulse Daddy’s Little Princess will want to funding for next?
Women seek out this kind of “bravery/survivor/victim” validation stuff. They invent trauma in their head so they can go to their social media and “speak their truth” and get some attention from other women. They’re all histrionic sociopaths.
I would love to Mctitty fuck those fun bags and bounce my ballsack off her chin.
Who wants to play with her sticky buns?
Awesome cans. I’d try a gluten, peanut, lactose, soy, and egg free cupcake from between them.
People who are giving small business owners a hard time right are also complete trash. Call Jenn Royals shitty restaurant if you feel like being a dick to someone
Bakeries and this chick make me think of creme pies.
How dare you take pictures of yourself in the Bakery with no mask on!
There’s a special place in my heart for a shit-filled twinkie.
Share it with the rest of the world!
I wouldn’t let her handle food at McDonald’s. She looks dirty. How the fuck did she get money to open up two bakeries??? Must be a trust fund baby who can afford to close down her hobby. No real business owner would shut down over assholes that come with the territory of customer service.
Especially an allergen-free gay bakery. Eww to gluten/peanut/lactose/flavor free crap.
Guarantee her dad the doctor/lawyer/professor, and mom with a double hyphenated name bought and completely fund both places for her.
The lack of hair net or proper pony tail at least in the bakery is driving me nuts. Nobody wants a long ass cheaply dyed daddy issues hair on their shitty tasteless cupcake.
She needs to tell these non customers to go fuck themselves and spend less time on twtr/FB and more time running her business. She is caving in to asshole customers that can never be satisfied.
I’m allergic to allergen free bakeries
Oh no! Mean words! How come no one likes my patchouli cupcakes?
You want a real bakery in Worcester? Go toHelens on Greenwood street . The best bulki roll left in Wormtown . Fuck Cullpeppepers they suck . Get a lemon raspberry danish at Helens -the best !
This is what happens when everyone gets a trophy win or lose. You need to learn to toughen up. If your product has a demand, and people buy a lot of it, then OBVIOUSLY you’re doing a good job.
FYI: The PUBLIC SUCK. THEY ARE RUDE, AND LOUD, AND CRASS. AND THEY COMPLAIN ABOUT EVERYTHING.
This is what it means to have an inner compass. Moral fiber. If your entire existence is built on likes on some public platform, you are not going to make it.
Does she make gay wedding cakes?
Asking for myself.
I’ll take an old glory and MAGA cake please. What’s that? You won’t make that for me because it offends you? Orange man bad? Great. Where does the lawsuit line start?
I want a sheet cake. In icing I would like the entire text of the 2nd Amendment of the US Constitution
Got a nose like a duck billed platypus. But I should talk.
Those are some quality jugs.
Perhaps could have a more fulfilling career as a Pacific Northwest topless barista.
Son she’s way too fat to be working for carlie jo. I mean, id love to have my way with this bakery chick with the big heavy full sized titties and make cream pies with her but she is chubby and soft. Now the bikini barista carlie jo is a work of art. To be fair bakery chick has homegrown titties and carlie jo is on her 2nd set of bolt ons. To equal it out i think they both dine at the Y and would be a heavenly 3 sum with fat and skinny a whole lot of big titties thrown in. I think you would agree, AJ. By the way, stop looking at your sister in that way.
There is no crying in baseball.
Come on now, put that gender studies degree to good use and have a soy drink in Chikopee ,get over it.
Old Antifa saying…This is what cake looks like….This is what cake looks like….
I think its a great move on her part because both the morons at WBZ and Turtleboy gave her free advertising.
Close the Bakery move to LA and do porn, you got the body and great rack for it. Better hours and quicker payback in porn. Now get out there and explore your sexuality girl!
She can’t take harsh words. I doubt she can take double anal.
” She also believes people act differently online than in person”. No fucking way! I’m stunned…
The Hell you say….
RESIST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The ‘Bernie Sanders follower look’ never translates well into a serious business model
Those people don’t know about business models. They call them start-ups and expect people to invest in them with 0.00% return.
Or they get into pyramid schemes and call it multi level marketing.
“Bernie 2020” says a business owner who I assume takes cash off the top before Uncle Sam gets his cut. Fucking Hypocrite.
no doubt this ugly ass skank with “badass” tattoos called herself “fierce” and was part of “the resistance” but can’t handle mean words online.
She probably makes cookies that look like Bernie
I think her face is scaring ppl