The sad end to more than one small retail start-up is recorded by Sara Mojtehedzadeh of the Toronto Star in the form of the complaint by a former employee that she was not paid. The Tori and Cates cupcake venture on Bayview Ave. in the Spring of 2014 was a likeable thing. Look at the pictures in this BlogTO article. But the business plan, like so many of its kind, must have been badly flawed. How many cupcakes do you have to sell to meet the rent and other costs (like paying people) to stay in business? It didn’t last long. The place was closed and equipment sold at auction barely nine months later. Now a former employee, Helena Borody, has gone public in a dispute with the Tori and Cates owner Christine D’Onofrio of Leaside. Barody is a wedding cake designer located on Stephenson Ave. off the Danforth. Sara Mojtehdzadeh, Toronto Star
