Sweet Revenge

Sweet Revenge® is on PBS Nightly Business Report

Marlo — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:03:29 +0000

I sat down with PBS Nightly Business Report correspondent Erika Miller to discuss the effects of rising food costs in the restaurant industry. I shared the measures we are taking at Sweet Revenge® to control them, rather than pass them along to our patrons. My savvy restaurant consultant, Lisa Chodosh, provides interesting insight on the behind-the-scenes in the industry on this topic.

The Sweet Revenge® Cupcake gets a SWEET Mention for National Peanut Butter Day on Cupcakes Take The Cake Blog

Marlo — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:18:16 +0000

Big thanks to Rachel and Nichelle, founders of Cupcakes Take the Cake for their shoutout on our Sweet Revenge® cupcake for National Peanut Butter Day. First of all this holiday is sheer genius! Secondly, shouldn’t every day be national peanut butter day!?!??! The Sweet Revenge® cupcake is my personal fave — it’s a peanut butter cake, ch0colate ganache center, and peanut butter fudge frosting. I extra love it paired with our Weihenstephaner hefeweiss and our Juan Benegas malbec.

Read the story & see a mouthwatering photo of my fave cupcake!

My Food & Beer Pairings in Restaurant Management Mag!

Marlo — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:28:28 +0000

Get behind-the-scenes scoop on my food and beer pairings in Restaurant Management magazine’s “Food & Beer Pairings: How, When & Why Are They A Good Idea”.

Big thanks to my very talented friend Nancy Rothschild Gerome for her gorgeous photo of the Cafe Mocha cupcake & Young’s dbl chocolate stout in the story. Check out her mouth watering food blog Olive To Cook. Her writing, recipes and photos are AMAZING!

PS. How good looking are my cookie and beer pairings?!?!

Photo Credit: Nancy Rothschild Gerome

Sweet Revenge Has a Super Sweet Shoutout on Portfolio.com!

Marlo — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:56:40 +0000

Sweet Revenge has a SWEET mention in Portfolio magazine’s article on Twinkies!

Read the story!

Marlo in Baton Rouge Business Report

Marlo — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 17:05:23 +0000

Check out my story in Baton Rouge Business Report, which followed my speech during Baton Rouge Entrepreneur Week (BREW) for a group of the area’s top 100 women in small business. The crowd was impressive, and their questions were insightful. Big thanks to Manuel Valencia, founder of CMO Accelerator, my good friend and University of Michigan MBA classmate for bringing me to his city in support of entrepreneurship. Big thanks to Wendy Overton and Lindsay Turner for all their amazing efforts to support small business in Baton Rouge.

Marlo, Manny Valencia and Lindsay Turner in BR

Mention in The Times-Picayune

Marlo — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 17:25:40 +0000

Check out the mention on my upcoming visit to Baton Rouge for the city’s Entrepreneur Week (BREW). I’m excited to speak with 100 of the city’s finest women in small business.

Read “Baton Rouge Hosts Events for Budding Firms” in the Times-Picayune

Sweet Revenge® on the Cooking Channel!

Marlo — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 14:24:31 +0000

Big thanks to all the good folks who let me know reruns of my Unique Eats segment are currently playing on the Cooking Channel! Woot woot!

View the segment about my cupcake, beer & wine pairings!

Rome Wasn’t Built in a Day

Marlo — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 21:15:11 +0000

Blink blink blink – I can’t believe it’s October. Time moves so fast, yet most projects I tackle take forever. Having taken the last few months off from blogging, the guilt has built, and it’s time to get back to it!

For fun and enjoyment I’ve been fixing up things that needed some serious repair…starting with myself . I don’t know if its because I’ve been on my feet bartending for the last 3 years, or because I’m staring down 41 in November but here’s the list of repair work:

1) June – vascular surgery. I’m happy to report the worm colony that had overtaken my left shin lost the laser battle. This is the darkest secret of the restaurant industry…standing for hours on end, for years on end, destroys your legs (and your hips, and your back, and your knees). Attention support hose manufacturers: we restaurant workers are an untapped gold mine. Just sex them up a bit fashion-wise, would ya?

2) August – hip surgery (labral tear repair – not replacement!). Rough surfing in tropical Costa Rica caused this. Nah, not really that’s just my delusional dreams of grandeur and vacations yet to be taken. Bartending wear and tear and being a former runner were the more likely causes. Bustin’ a move on a cane really gives you an appreciation for walking without one.

3) Aug- to present — Physical therapy for a pinched nerve in my neck (and hip recovery too). Who knew that looking down at your phone 24/7, being in bed with a laptop and slumping in chairs could be the cause of so much physical misery? The pinched nerve problem was waaaaay flippin worse than the pain in my hip. It takes a sheitload of focus to keep shoulders back, elbows in back pockets, to sit on the edge of a chair and bring cellphones up to eye-level.

Big thanks goes to my kickass bartenders for doing a bangup job filling in for me. I’ve not been able to be behind the bar nearly as much as a result of all this nonsense. Thank you Brian, Charysh, Angela, Brit & Lauren for taking good care of me and our patrons!

In happy Sweet Revenge® news, I’m working on a perfume — Sweet Revenge For Her. This sexy eau de parfum will debut November 1 when I relaunch the shopping section of my website, currently located at Sweet Revenge® Apparel. A name change for the new shopping portal is in the works! The rebuild plan includes professional apparel photos, overhauling the look and feel of the site, and switching backend platforms. It will be almost 12 months to the day that the site is totally overhauled from when it was originally launched last year.

I’m very fortunate to work with a talented crew on all the moving parts. Megan Hostler, who designed my original logo, is creating beautiful perfume bottle labels and the visual layout of the new shopping site. Mike Robinson, my genius web developer, is spearheading the technical aspects of the relaunch. Professional photographer Natalie Brasington, who shot my Entrepreneur magazine cover, is photographing all the apparel. FIT student intern (and new bartender) Jana Ferrari is helping me with the photoshoot and understanding best practices in the retail industry. Kelly Jones, founder & owner of Kelly & Jones, is helping me create and bottle the scent. A shoutout is certainly in order for dear friends Lisa, Joc and Megan who’ve been doing scent mixology with me. The creative aspects of the perfume and website relaunch projects are a complete blast. I get a kick out of bringing an idea to life, especially one like the perfume that has been 4 years in the makes since it was in my 2007 business plan.

“Rome wasn’t built in a day” (a frequent friendly reminder by Tony, my 86 year old building super).

Teaser Taste of Sweet Revenge: Time for Breakfast!

Cheers,

Marlo

Marlo is on MSN.com’s Homepage!

Marlo — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 21:01:50 +0000

My interview with MSN’s Business on Main got picked up as a homepage story for MSN.com. What an honor and thrill!

Marlo on msn.com homepage!

Sweet Revenge is on Grinding NYC’s Best in the City show

Marlo — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 15:25:08 +0000

Watch the sassy segment hosted by Jennifer Logue from Grinding NYC’s Best in the City Show. Although Jennifer and her galpals joined us during a torrential downpour, the rain didn’t stand in the way of cupcakes, wine and merriment at Sweet Revenge®!

Click here to view the embedded video.