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A Tesla employee ordered 2,000 mini pies from San Jose's Giving Pies, only to later cancel the $6,000 order from the small bakery
Billionaire Elon Musk has vowed to “make things right” with a California bakery after his company backed out of a cake order that cost the owner thousands of dollars.
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“I'm just hearing about it. “Will fix the bakery thing,” Musk said on X (formerly Twitter) in response to a report about the canceled order.
Musk's company Telsa placed an order for 4,000 mini pies from Giving Pies, a Black-owned bakery in San Jose, central California.
Owner Voahangy Rasetarinera told KRON-TV that her bakery received a last-minute order for 2,000 cakes from Tesla on Valentine's Day – a $6,000 haul for the small business, KTVU reported.
While Rasetarinera has previously worked with other tech companies on large catering orders, she said she had to chase Tesla several times over payment for the order, the money needed to source ingredients and pay her employees.
On Thursday evening, a Tesla representative named Laura contacted Rasetarinera and apologized for the late payment. Laura also increased the order to 4,000 cakes and assured Rasetarinera that money was no object.
Rasetarinera said she and her team worked overtime to pull off the mega-contract. However, Tesla never responded to several invoices from the cake manufacturer for payment.
Instead, Laura sent a message to Rasetarinera on Friday saying the order was no longer needed.
Rasetarinera said in a post on Facebook that the spontaneous cancellation “shocked me as I realized the extent of the impact on my small business.”
“I had invested time, resources and effort based on Tesla’s assurances, only to be let down,” she added.
Rasetarinera told KRON that canceling such a large order at short notice hurt their business. In order to fulfill Tesla's order, Rasetarinera had to turn down other catering gigs.
“I am a small company. I don’t have the luxury of unlimited resources, so I really need to get paid so I can secure my staff,” Rasetarinera said.
A Tesla representative later contacted Rasetarinera and said Laura did not have the authority to approve payments, ABC affiliate KGO-TV reported.
Starting Thursday, the company stopped paying Rasetarinera for the cakes but offered her a tour of the factory.
But Musk's post on Friday, given the viral story, could be a sign that the small company will soon be compensated for its hard work.
“People should always be able to trust Tesla to do its best,” Musk said in the post to X.
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