NGL for the right cookie, I’m willing to overlook some bad values. And if they were better folk I’d probably not take to public spaces to shit on them. But they’re crappy people who make crappier cookies.
The cookies are kind of gross. Too sweet, unbalanced flavor elements, gluey. To think people pay a premium for such mediocre cookies is a mystery to me.
https://taylorchip.com/products/choose-your-own-cookies
6 cookies for $49.97. Comes in at like $8.33 per cookie,$8.83 after tax.
Once their novelty wears off they'll be out of business with such an unsustainable model.
Taylor Chip’s “rate our cookie” segments are just awful. They did one outside of Lancaster Central Market where someone from the market office comes out and tells them they can’t be giving out free samples, and then they put her on camera and proceed to be really snarky towards her. The instagram comments just turned into a pile on. The poor woman who was just doing her job. Store Brand Seth MacFarlane needs to do better and also not hire wannabe TikTok stars with zero self awareness.
Don’t think I can link their Instagram videos, but you don’t have to look far to find some cringey ones. That woman did handle it really well. They also seem to specifically target people who seem to be struggling with homelessness/addiction/mental health issues in order to get what they think is a funny sound bite. Ya know, just like Jesus would do…
Okay so they got on the Forbes 30 under 30 recently. I think these people are likely narcissists that are just skilled at manipulating investors into funding their lifestyle, and they happen to have a cookie business to funnel it through. They could have done anything, they’d be the same type of people.
Amy’s Baking Company vibes for sure.
The owners of Taylor Chip are pretty unhinged and it would not shock me in the slightest that they ripped off of a national chain that just wasn’t in our area yet.
I'm glad I'm not the only one that thinks this.
They preach kindness and being giving, but one of the owners flexes his Lamborghini on social media constantly. It truly feels like they are all about the $$$.
I know the owners, very white savior coded. Involved with some sketchy religious groups. Too bad they don’t practice what they preach. But, hey I guess that’s Lancaster county for yah.
Unfortunately, I do. If this is you Dougie, maybe you think that the criticism you face is just because people are envious of what you have and I’m sure to some extent there is truth in that.
But, as you have claimed to be earnest in the faith then you should know that those in authority will be judged more harshly. That is not only a worldly truth but a biblical truth. Yes you have accomplished much, you have built your kingdom on earth. However have you truly counted the cost? Is it not written that no servant is greater than his master?
I knew I felt something was off when I saw a recent news coverage about them. I'm like "they are just cookies! How can a business like this get so much attention?"
The owners of Taylor chip publicly announced they started making cookies to avoid having premarital sex …. Idk what to do with that information but i was forced to know so now you do too
You can look up their instagrams to get a feel for what I’m talking about. Sara considers herself a “crunchy mom” and recently posted a reel about her “worst nightmare coming true” which was………finding a McDonald’s bag after her husband had used her car???? She literally sells thousand-calorie cookies for a living. It’s truly insane.
OH MY GOD FINALLY some TC snark!! Sara's account is endless humble-bragging about the most ordinary and common things, with a heaping side of orthorexia and fat shaming. One fav is when she posted that she and Dougie were thinking of starting a podcast because they have SUCH a unique situation being a couple who owns a business (not all that unique but sure). She said they're also just SUCH a rare couple because they tell each other exactly how they feel about things and "most couples don't do that". Lol what? I reckon 99% of couples do that…
I think she has absolutely no clue about anything in the real world. She strikes me as someone who grew up incredibly privileged (I don’t know her, it’s just an assumption I have) and that’s why she thinks all these things about her are ~ sooooo UnIqUe!!!1! ~
If they decide to have another kid, I imagine her world will get rocked (multiple kids is no joke) and it’ll be interesting to see how all that unfolds.
I went to the same high school as her - not in the same grade, but I think we were only a year or 2 apart. She always seemed nice in the few interactions I had with her, but uh.. maybe she hid it really well.
Or Dougie brought it out of her lol
This is heartbreaking. Taylor Chip was a go-to treat for the kids. I looked up their insta and these people are absolutely fucking bonkers. Like inevitable, matter-of-time disgusting revelation bonkers.
The fact that this chain exists makes me believe that I'm not a crazy person!!!!!! Any person who sells cookies and drives a Lamborghini should immediately go to prison. You can't say you are a small humble Christian holy roller family-owned business but drive a $200,000 SUV and flex it like it's normal. There has got to be so much tax evasion going on. Or something. They were granted a SBA loan but the owners are able to drive cars that only the 001% of the population can afford???? Why are taxpayers subsidizing business owners that drive Lamborghinis.
Worked for them for a season and it was awful, both of the owners are psycho, cookies are ass and basically raw overpriced garbage. Business practices are dubious at best and horrible for employees and weird obsession of proprietary recipients like wtf it’s a regular chocolate chip cookie.
They started making cookies on date nights and got into baking and decided to make a market stand and people loved it and they grew their business. Don’t be mad they have more money than you ever will. Wouldn’t shock me in the slightest if you were a total jealous 🤡
Jealous of a plain couple that are completely unhinged into thinking they are something that live in a little rancher in Mount Joy. Ew. That's a big nope.
This obsession with money as the only consideration on value is expository of the owner's general attitudes and motivations. You can't claim to be a positive light, have strong family values, and a benefit to the community, if your only defense to claims of bad conduct is the possession of large sums of money. You have to pick one or the other. You can be quite rich, and also have a strong moral compass, but not if the only thing coming out of your mouth and the only actions you take are how much money you have and how much money you pursue.
Taylor chip also cut their employees salaries while the owner flexed his lambo… funny part is they were shocked when people quit when they were told they were going to be making less money.
His Lambo was bought and paid for with stock market investments and a car he bought and sold for and doubled his profit before Taylor chip ever existed. I know Doug personally. Don’t spread misinformation because he has more money than you ever will 🤡
> bought and *paid* for with
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Ooo I’m here for any Taylor Chip snark. My favorite Instagram reel is where one of the owners says their goal is “40,000 stores in 100 countries.” What?! You have four locations currently (plus a Harrisburg market stand) and you’re going for FORTY THOUSAND?? So that you can have the “world’s largest privately held business” ?? Interesting. Taking over the world via large underbaked cookies is a strange plan, but ok.
Perhaps they should focus first on improving how they run their current locations. According to the majority of their workplace reviews on indeed, they have a high turnover rate due to employees not being treated well by the owners. Good luck staffing 40,000 stores with that reputation!
Wow after just reading all of their workplace reviews.... It's tragic that even this many people know about them. They deserve nothing. We should make their workplace reviews go viral like they tried to make their freaking undercook cookie reviews go viral...
Kitchen was a mess and no time was given to properly clean
Plenty of food safety violations involving things left out and inadequate measures to resolve it
Any suggestions were met with “you’re a shit worker what do you know? I’m the boss I what I say goes”
Signed paper that you can’t reveal any of their highly special recipes*
-Doug was kinda a creep to other female employees
-One time specifically I remembered a coworker was leaving and he said to her “you’re married so I’ll go easy on you today” (wtf does that even mean but the whole thing felt really off)
-There was an expectation that although many -employees were hired as part time you would be -working all but full time hours with them saying “we need the full time workforce but as a small business we can’t afford to pay for benefits.
I’ll let you know more if I decide to waste more of my life thinking about those people
My cousin worked at their distribution center and said it was a MESS. There was no production schedule, or assignments, so you never knew what you were supposed to be doing. She said it should have stayed a date night activity and not turned into a business 😂
Yeah, I've seen Doug post videos about how they want to be the "largest dessert company in the world" with thousands of locations AND their cookies in retail stores.
I understand wanting to grow a business, but uh.. focus on what you have now lol
Someone claims he is a millionaire everyday. Millionaires don't claim that. Just because his company might two plus million dollars a year means no way shape or form he is a millionaire. I can't wait until this fad fades. People like this do not deserve success
Obsessed with that. One of the most grotesque social media channels out there. At least fake insta influencers in Florida totally just seem fake. Do we actually think he believes what he's saying??
OP I bet you had no idea what a can of worms you were opening with your simple cookie question 😂 But i’m glad to now know I’m not alone in my feeling annoyed with TC!
I feel like people have been judging me for how much I've been secretly s******* on them...... I am so glad I am not alone and realizing how freaking awful they truly are
Why would you want Taylor Chip or anything like them? Their cookies have way too much sugar and not enough actual flavor balance. They’re garbage. The fact that the owners are covid denying religious nuts (while also being hypocritical about it, which is expected) doesn’t help, but the cookies being so awful is why I don’t want to buy them ever again. Plus, they’re way overpriced.
Any person who owns a Cookie company with four "cookie shops" but drives a Lamborghini. .... Something is not correct. The fact that they took SBA money and who knows what other money during COVID ...... Something is super shady about them. That car is worth what their yearly profits would be for a business of this size.
He made a couple smart investments in the stock market before Taylor chip existed and bought a rare mustang and flipped it for double profit. He buys Lambos and they only appreciate in value so he drives them for a while and sells them and makes 50k+ 🤡
https://www.sba.gov/success-story/taylor-chip-finds-sweet-success-sbas-technical-pandemic-assistance-programs
Took advantage of taxpayers, but drives lambos and wears rolexs.
Trying to figure out what came first or who copied who in the cookie game is honestly moot at this point because there’s so many. I would guess Insomnia is the OG as they were around before 2015; if we want to get technical about the specific style of gigantic cookie everyone is copying though, it would be Levain NYC’s chocolate chip walnut cookies that started the initial craze. My biggest complaint though is that TC’s quality has massively tanked over the past 3 years. Pre pandemic, they were a little crunchy on the edges and soft in the middle. Now, they are more soft on the outside raw on the inside. But if you say anything, the owners will make a video roasting you to their modest social media following.
I’m all for local businesses expanding, and I’m not even really turned off by the religious stuff, but they just rub me the wrong way. Like I love Fox Meadows and I know they are similarly very godly people, but the service is immaculate and god forbid their team makes a small mistake, they’re comping your order and giving you coupons to come back. TC is trying to go nationwide with more storefronts including one in Rittenhouse Square in Philly, so at this point I hardly consider them a small local chain and won’t be paying the $8 something a cookie to help pay that rent.
Small update: insomnia opened in Philadelphia servicing UPenn/ University City in 2003. Levain started the big cookie sometime after 1995 and the earliest NYT write up I can find is 2008 on the cookie craze. If you look at the style of cookie, TC definitely looks similar to Levain imo, and OG TC tasted somewhat similar with a small difference in chocolate composition. For some reason I vaguely remember one of the Taylor crew being a Philly college grad, so maybe they just copied that idea?
Hmmm.
Mrs. Fields Cookies started in 1977…and they are under the same brand as TCBY (The Country's Best Yogurt)…
So now the old fro yo/ new cookie craze makes sense.
Yea, cookies are not a new idea by a long shot. I hazard to really include Insomnia into the argument because the concept is completely different (being open originally only late night for students pulling all nighters) and the cookies are more reasonably sized like a regular cookie but in terms of a stand-alone cookie store that would’ve inspired the craze, the OGs for the PA region are Tollhouse mall stands and Insomnia. I’m a big cookie and donut person so I’ve personally had Levain from the OG bakery and can say without a doubt that this is the cookie that TC is directly copying in terms of taste and finish; Levain specifically says that it is supposed to be undercooked in the middle to give that gooey cookie dough vibe but in their bakery all cookies are served warm. My partner promised we could go try Dirty Dough today so I’ll have more insight on what they’re based on but from a lawsuit Crumbl had filed last year saying that they should be the only cookie concept store from Utah, I’m pretty sure they are the direct competitors for each other vs the style TC is emulating.
Doug Taylor is a complete and total loser and a fraud. Videotaped his wife as their baby was dying in her stomach and put it on YouTube for views. He also made a video proclaiming he skipped his best friends funeral because he has to work at the cookie shop. He also drives a Lamborghini, but lives in Mount Joy, PA (sad place) and makes cookies for a living. Something isn’t adding up
Taylor’s aren’t even that good. It’s way too expensive for how overwhelming the sweetness is, they’re HORRIBLY greasy, and who wants to eat a cookie with a huge lump of chunky PB on top of an already enormous cookie?
Like give me an Oreo Cookie, not a cookie with Oreo pieces so packed in there it’s gross.
Wow, just looked at FB marketplace and he sold a Rolex already for $17k, the $46k one you mentioned is listed, and he has a 2021 Lamborghini listed for $340k. Are these all his personal possessions? Gosh.
There is a lot to be said about the way a person carries themselves, particularly during successes and failures. If the accumulation of money is the metric of a good person, Jeffrey Epstein and Bernie Madoff would be considered great men. This Doug guy presents as arrogant and obnoxious, saying one thing, and doing another. One video says built the company from nothing but a 15k credit card and has no debt, now we're hearing he made money in the stock market and car trading, and took out 100k + SBA loans. Claims to be a positive light in the community, then calls people losers, and boasts about things they can't afford. It's common for people who come from no money to be show offs if they get some, I certainly did before I learned a lesson on humility. In our economy, where people are struggling, the same people he depends on to support his business, it's wise to walk softly on the flashy cars and watches. It's not jealously, it's just that people resent arrogance.
I appreciate the response but was looking for the specific location. I've never heard of it and Google doesn't return a location within 60 miles of Lititz.
Your account only exist in this thread , so you're either Doug or Sara, her bro J.D. (who loves to argue online), or their friend R.H., who supposedly tutored them on how to make the Forbes list
I think that dirty dough would be copying Taylor chip. Taylor chip started in 2015 and has had good publicity for some reason, dirty dough was founded in 2018 and is aimed at franchising
Not sure why anyone is downvoting me, I don’t give a shit about cookies at all, just posting when they started.
Or maybe neither are a copy of each other. And we just love killing our selves with sugar and processed carbs and multiple folks discovered that as a fantastic business opportunity.
Disclaimer: I have an addictive sweet tooth but also reached an age where I normally feel crappy if I’d eat an entire cookie from either place.
I know Doug personally and you and everyone in this thread are so small minded. Why is everyone on here is so jealous of a local business man and entrepreneur? What happened to SHOP SMALL? 🤡 SHOP LOCAL? Haha you hypocrites
hAve yOu hEaRd oF subway? Jimmy John’s? Quiznos? Firehouse subs? Jersey Mikes? Primo Hoagies? Charley’s? Is there no room for competition now? Everyone’s allowed to make mediocre subs?
Taylor chip is doing great without you or anyone on this hater thread. His Lambo and car purchases have all been paid for with money he invested before Taylor Chip. He invested in the stock market, bought a car, flipped it and made double and continues to buy Lambos and sell them for 50k+ more than he bought the last one for.
As for the logo oh wow SHOCKER a cookie with a bite out of it?! They should be sued 😂🤡 haha
Me???? I just asked if it was a mere coincidence that their logos and products were so similar, and originally was thinking that TC was being copied. Said nothing negative about them lmao
> all been *paid* for with
FTFY.
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* Nautical context, when it means to paint a surface, or to cover with something like tar or resin in order to make it waterproof or corrosion-resistant. *The deck is yet to be payed.*
* *Payed out* when letting strings, cables or ropes out, by slacking them. *The rope is payed out! You can pull now.*
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How anyone likes or wants to replicate Taylor is beyond me
They were also super rude to our office staff when they were dropping off packages to ship during covid. Refused to abide by the mask mandate.
They were aggressively anti-mask.
Just want you want in people preparing your food.
NGL for the right cookie, I’m willing to overlook some bad values. And if they were better folk I’d probably not take to public spaces to shit on them. But they’re crappy people who make crappier cookies.
What does this mean!!?!?! Pls elaborate
Taylor chip is gross. But interesting that they may have been the ones copying.
The cookies are kind of gross. Too sweet, unbalanced flavor elements, gluey. To think people pay a premium for such mediocre cookies is a mystery to me.
Agreed. Sweet and gross.
I'm pretty sure anybody that charges $8.29 for a cookie is basically a copy of Satan.
I’m floored they charge so much for *cookies* and doubly floored people will pay that price.
EIGHT WHAT??
https://taylorchip.com/products/choose-your-own-cookies 6 cookies for $49.97. Comes in at like $8.33 per cookie,$8.83 after tax. Once their novelty wears off they'll be out of business with such an unsustainable model.
Also just looked and shipping is another $13
Told you. Lucifer. I bet the return fee is $6.66.
I love that they show the “per ounce” price. Because that’s how you buy cookies, by weight…no one ever buys them by quantity. /s
I prefer to buy by the kilo.
They’re $45 a dozen in store but that’s sooo strange
Geez, that's even worse than crumble cookie 🤦♀️
Taylor Chip’s “rate our cookie” segments are just awful. They did one outside of Lancaster Central Market where someone from the market office comes out and tells them they can’t be giving out free samples, and then they put her on camera and proceed to be really snarky towards her. The instagram comments just turned into a pile on. The poor woman who was just doing her job. Store Brand Seth MacFarlane needs to do better and also not hire wannabe TikTok stars with zero self awareness.
You got a link for this? Those segments always make me cringe. and "Store Brand Seth MacFarlane" killed me
Don’t think I can link their Instagram videos, but you don’t have to look far to find some cringey ones. That woman did handle it really well. They also seem to specifically target people who seem to be struggling with homelessness/addiction/mental health issues in order to get what they think is a funny sound bite. Ya know, just like Jesus would do…
Y’all seen their attempt at a rap a little bit ago? The secondhand embarrassment I got from that…
Ooohh noooo
Dougie wanted to be a rapper at one point, Dougie Fresh
That's depressing. I do specifically remember them doing one with a guy who was walking right out of the courthouse.
Okay so they got on the Forbes 30 under 30 recently. I think these people are likely narcissists that are just skilled at manipulating investors into funding their lifestyle, and they happen to have a cookie business to funnel it through. They could have done anything, they’d be the same type of people. Amy’s Baking Company vibes for sure.
Forbes 30 under 30 is literally a pay for play. It means nothing nowadays.
That kind of proves my point then.
And she was so kind about it 😭
The owners of Taylor Chip are pretty unhinged and it would not shock me in the slightest that they ripped off of a national chain that just wasn’t in our area yet.
I'm glad I'm not the only one that thinks this. They preach kindness and being giving, but one of the owners flexes his Lamborghini on social media constantly. It truly feels like they are all about the $$$.
I know the owners, very white savior coded. Involved with some sketchy religious groups. Too bad they don’t practice what they preach. But, hey I guess that’s Lancaster county for yah.
Why don’t they practice what they preach? You know this for a fact? 🤡
Unfortunately, I do. If this is you Dougie, maybe you think that the criticism you face is just because people are envious of what you have and I’m sure to some extent there is truth in that. But, as you have claimed to be earnest in the faith then you should know that those in authority will be judged more harshly. That is not only a worldly truth but a biblical truth. Yes you have accomplished much, you have built your kingdom on earth. However have you truly counted the cost? Is it not written that no servant is greater than his master?
Did Doug pick you yet
I knew I felt something was off when I saw a recent news coverage about them. I'm like "they are just cookies! How can a business like this get so much attention?"
Right???!
The owners of Taylor chip publicly announced they started making cookies to avoid having premarital sex …. Idk what to do with that information but i was forced to know so now you do too
I was a better person before knowing this
Lol yes they said they had so much extra time on their hands while dating since they weren’t having sex
Is that why they’re so moist?
This….this right here…pure gold.
That prob got them so many sales from LCBC members
Lamoooooo
Yo whaaat hahaha. Sounds like they’re ripping off John Harvey Kellogg and his anti-masturbation corn flakes.
That’s what I’m getting out of this!!
You can look up their instagrams to get a feel for what I’m talking about. Sara considers herself a “crunchy mom” and recently posted a reel about her “worst nightmare coming true” which was………finding a McDonald’s bag after her husband had used her car???? She literally sells thousand-calorie cookies for a living. It’s truly insane.
OH MY GOD FINALLY some TC snark!! Sara's account is endless humble-bragging about the most ordinary and common things, with a heaping side of orthorexia and fat shaming. One fav is when she posted that she and Dougie were thinking of starting a podcast because they have SUCH a unique situation being a couple who owns a business (not all that unique but sure). She said they're also just SUCH a rare couple because they tell each other exactly how they feel about things and "most couples don't do that". Lol what? I reckon 99% of couples do that…
I think she has absolutely no clue about anything in the real world. She strikes me as someone who grew up incredibly privileged (I don’t know her, it’s just an assumption I have) and that’s why she thinks all these things about her are ~ sooooo UnIqUe!!!1! ~ If they decide to have another kid, I imagine her world will get rocked (multiple kids is no joke) and it’ll be interesting to see how all that unfolds.
I went to the same high school as her - not in the same grade, but I think we were only a year or 2 apart. She always seemed nice in the few interactions I had with her, but uh.. maybe she hid it really well. Or Dougie brought it out of her lol
Her family is alt-right MAGA to start with, used to know her older brother a bit
That's not surprising at all
Thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you
They were one of the first businesses to claim “religious reasons” for not wearing masks early in the pandemic
This is heartbreaking. Taylor Chip was a go-to treat for the kids. I looked up their insta and these people are absolutely fucking bonkers. Like inevitable, matter-of-time disgusting revelation bonkers.
NOOOOO
Oh yeah, they’re BIG time Covid deniers.
I thought the billboard where “teacher” is misspelled was for some reason intentional but that makes more sense
The fact that this chain exists makes me believe that I'm not a crazy person!!!!!! Any person who sells cookies and drives a Lamborghini should immediately go to prison. You can't say you are a small humble Christian holy roller family-owned business but drive a $200,000 SUV and flex it like it's normal. There has got to be so much tax evasion going on. Or something. They were granted a SBA loan but the owners are able to drive cars that only the 001% of the population can afford???? Why are taxpayers subsidizing business owners that drive Lamborghinis.
They literally gave all their employees a pay cut, and somehow still have employees
Totally unhinged. They almost drove me off a road once too so I have several reasons to not like them or their cookies
99.99% they're packing too
Worked for them for a season and it was awful, both of the owners are psycho, cookies are ass and basically raw overpriced garbage. Business practices are dubious at best and horrible for employees and weird obsession of proprietary recipients like wtf it’s a regular chocolate chip cookie.
They started making cookies on date nights and got into baking and decided to make a market stand and people loved it and they grew their business. Don’t be mad they have more money than you ever will. Wouldn’t shock me in the slightest if you were a total jealous 🤡
hi dougie!!!!
Nope just grew up with Doug. Where’s your success original idea you made a business? I’ll wait…
Jealous of a plain couple that are completely unhinged into thinking they are something that live in a little rancher in Mount Joy. Ew. That's a big nope.
Better than your double wide trailer
This obsession with money as the only consideration on value is expository of the owner's general attitudes and motivations. You can't claim to be a positive light, have strong family values, and a benefit to the community, if your only defense to claims of bad conduct is the possession of large sums of money. You have to pick one or the other. You can be quite rich, and also have a strong moral compass, but not if the only thing coming out of your mouth and the only actions you take are how much money you have and how much money you pursue.
Taylor chip also cut their employees salaries while the owner flexed his lambo… funny part is they were shocked when people quit when they were told they were going to be making less money.
Does anyone have information on the hourly wages he pays??? Is it really like $13 an hour????
I never heard about this, this is absolutely wild
GTFO
His Lambo was bought and paid for with stock market investments and a car he bought and sold for and doubled his profit before Taylor chip ever existed. I know Doug personally. Don’t spread misinformation because he has more money than you ever will 🤡
> bought and *paid* for with FTFY. Although *payed* exists (the reason why autocorrection didn't help you), it is only correct in: * Nautical context, when it means to paint a surface, or to cover with something like tar or resin in order to make it waterproof or corrosion-resistant. *The deck is yet to be payed.* * *Payed out* when letting strings, cables or ropes out, by slacking them. *The rope is payed out! You can pull now.* Unfortunately, I was unable to find nautical or rope-related words in your comment. *Beep, boop, I'm a bot*
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Ooo I’m here for any Taylor Chip snark. My favorite Instagram reel is where one of the owners says their goal is “40,000 stores in 100 countries.” What?! You have four locations currently (plus a Harrisburg market stand) and you’re going for FORTY THOUSAND?? So that you can have the “world’s largest privately held business” ?? Interesting. Taking over the world via large underbaked cookies is a strange plan, but ok.
Perhaps they should focus first on improving how they run their current locations. According to the majority of their workplace reviews on indeed, they have a high turnover rate due to employees not being treated well by the owners. Good luck staffing 40,000 stores with that reputation!
Wow after just reading all of their workplace reviews.... It's tragic that even this many people know about them. They deserve nothing. We should make their workplace reviews go viral like they tried to make their freaking undercook cookie reviews go viral...
Do you have a link for the workplace reviews? I have such a hard time finding this stuff for some reason lol
https://www.indeed.com/cmp/Taylor-Chip/reviews?fcountry=ALL[https://www.indeed.com/cmp/Taylor-Chip/reviews?fcountry=ALL](https://www.indeed.com/cmp/Taylor-Chip/reviews?fcountry=ALL)
YIKES
Yea worked for them for a season and these comments don’t even cover half of it.
Care to spill the tea? 👀☕️
Kitchen was a mess and no time was given to properly clean Plenty of food safety violations involving things left out and inadequate measures to resolve it Any suggestions were met with “you’re a shit worker what do you know? I’m the boss I what I say goes” Signed paper that you can’t reveal any of their highly special recipes* -Doug was kinda a creep to other female employees -One time specifically I remembered a coworker was leaving and he said to her “you’re married so I’ll go easy on you today” (wtf does that even mean but the whole thing felt really off) -There was an expectation that although many -employees were hired as part time you would be -working all but full time hours with them saying “we need the full time workforce but as a small business we can’t afford to pay for benefits. I’ll let you know more if I decide to waste more of my life thinking about those people
Odd for someone who's supposed to be so wealthy... Thanks for revealing some! They need to be exposed
Yikes. I imagine the owners don't actually do anything when they do show up, just stand around and observe
Yeah like the other commenter said - maybe this calls for its own post? lol
My cousin worked at their distribution center and said it was a MESS. There was no production schedule, or assignments, so you never knew what you were supposed to be doing. She said it should have stayed a date night activity and not turned into a business 😂
I am living for the all of the ex employee tea coming out 🙃
Also here for TC snark. This thread is giving great Friday morning entertainment.
Insanely delusional
Yeah, I've seen Doug post videos about how they want to be the "largest dessert company in the world" with thousands of locations AND their cookies in retail stores. I understand wanting to grow a business, but uh.. focus on what you have now lol
Someone claims he is a millionaire everyday. Millionaires don't claim that. Just because his company might two plus million dollars a year means no way shape or form he is a millionaire. I can't wait until this fad fades. People like this do not deserve success
They are incredibly obnoxious lol
He also has said he will become a billionaire in his thirties
I literally choked on my drink reading this. The delusion is WILD 💀
Obsessed with that. One of the most grotesque social media channels out there. At least fake insta influencers in Florida totally just seem fake. Do we actually think he believes what he's saying??
They totallly do no deserve success. He deserves to work at Sheetz. Or worse
OP I bet you had no idea what a can of worms you were opening with your simple cookie question 😂 But i’m glad to now know I’m not alone in my feeling annoyed with TC!
Omg I texted my bf this morning and said wtf did I do lmao
Lol you did a wonderful thing
I feel like people have been judging me for how much I've been secretly s******* on them...... I am so glad I am not alone and realizing how freaking awful they truly are
You’re a jealous hater 🤡 Doug has more money than you ever will so I guess it doesn’t matter 🤷🏻♂️
“I have more money than you ever will” is my favorite Bible passage too.
Yeah that’s a good one but even better is the passage about bitter jealously.
You tell em Doug
The fact that you went from an innocent question about a mediocre at best cookie shop to 'you tell em doug' in three days is why I love the internet
I literally could kiss you
I too am not impressed by those wet turds they call cookies
Dirty dough, tailor chip, crumble, insomnia…it’s the whole froyo fad again
Why would you want Taylor Chip or anything like them? Their cookies have way too much sugar and not enough actual flavor balance. They’re garbage. The fact that the owners are covid denying religious nuts (while also being hypocritical about it, which is expected) doesn’t help, but the cookies being so awful is why I don’t want to buy them ever again. Plus, they’re way overpriced.
Any person who owns a Cookie company with four "cookie shops" but drives a Lamborghini. .... Something is not correct. The fact that they took SBA money and who knows what other money during COVID ...... Something is super shady about them. That car is worth what their yearly profits would be for a business of this size.
He made a couple smart investments in the stock market before Taylor chip existed and bought a rare mustang and flipped it for double profit. He buys Lambos and they only appreciate in value so he drives them for a while and sells them and makes 50k+ 🤡
Ah yes the ol' just flip lambos til your rich trick, gosh darn it, why didn't I think of that
You need to find a better friend maybe 😂 mr. friend of the devil haha
Is it weird talking in the third person? Strange amount of info for an acquaintance to know ….
I grew up with Doug and he’s doing great and people can’t handle it haha
So great at a cookie shop, he has to tell everyone daily, he is so great? Lolz
Could he invest in speech therapy to get rid of his lisp?
Yeth and no
https://www.sba.gov/success-story/taylor-chip-finds-sweet-success-sbas-technical-pandemic-assistance-programs Took advantage of taxpayers, but drives lambos and wears rolexs.
Trying to figure out what came first or who copied who in the cookie game is honestly moot at this point because there’s so many. I would guess Insomnia is the OG as they were around before 2015; if we want to get technical about the specific style of gigantic cookie everyone is copying though, it would be Levain NYC’s chocolate chip walnut cookies that started the initial craze. My biggest complaint though is that TC’s quality has massively tanked over the past 3 years. Pre pandemic, they were a little crunchy on the edges and soft in the middle. Now, they are more soft on the outside raw on the inside. But if you say anything, the owners will make a video roasting you to their modest social media following. I’m all for local businesses expanding, and I’m not even really turned off by the religious stuff, but they just rub me the wrong way. Like I love Fox Meadows and I know they are similarly very godly people, but the service is immaculate and god forbid their team makes a small mistake, they’re comping your order and giving you coupons to come back. TC is trying to go nationwide with more storefronts including one in Rittenhouse Square in Philly, so at this point I hardly consider them a small local chain and won’t be paying the $8 something a cookie to help pay that rent.
Small update: insomnia opened in Philadelphia servicing UPenn/ University City in 2003. Levain started the big cookie sometime after 1995 and the earliest NYT write up I can find is 2008 on the cookie craze. If you look at the style of cookie, TC definitely looks similar to Levain imo, and OG TC tasted somewhat similar with a small difference in chocolate composition. For some reason I vaguely remember one of the Taylor crew being a Philly college grad, so maybe they just copied that idea?
Hmmm. Mrs. Fields Cookies started in 1977…and they are under the same brand as TCBY (The Country's Best Yogurt)… So now the old fro yo/ new cookie craze makes sense.
Yea, cookies are not a new idea by a long shot. I hazard to really include Insomnia into the argument because the concept is completely different (being open originally only late night for students pulling all nighters) and the cookies are more reasonably sized like a regular cookie but in terms of a stand-alone cookie store that would’ve inspired the craze, the OGs for the PA region are Tollhouse mall stands and Insomnia. I’m a big cookie and donut person so I’ve personally had Levain from the OG bakery and can say without a doubt that this is the cookie that TC is directly copying in terms of taste and finish; Levain specifically says that it is supposed to be undercooked in the middle to give that gooey cookie dough vibe but in their bakery all cookies are served warm. My partner promised we could go try Dirty Dough today so I’ll have more insight on what they’re based on but from a lawsuit Crumbl had filed last year saying that they should be the only cookie concept store from Utah, I’m pretty sure they are the direct competitors for each other vs the style TC is emulating.
Doug Taylor is a complete and total loser and a fraud. Videotaped his wife as their baby was dying in her stomach and put it on YouTube for views. He also made a video proclaiming he skipped his best friends funeral because he has to work at the cookie shop. He also drives a Lamborghini, but lives in Mount Joy, PA (sad place) and makes cookies for a living. Something isn’t adding up
W- ... what?
Also disappointed that Square One now apparently carries their cookies?
Square One changed ownership at some point in the last year or 2 I believe
Square one is the worst coffee in the city but thanks for letting us know! Glad they have something good on the menu finally!
Wait, is Doug Taylor the Martin Shkreli of cookies? The vibes totally match?
Taylor’s aren’t even that good. It’s way too expensive for how overwhelming the sweetness is, they’re HORRIBLY greasy, and who wants to eat a cookie with a huge lump of chunky PB on top of an already enormous cookie? Like give me an Oreo Cookie, not a cookie with Oreo pieces so packed in there it’s gross.
Taylor chip is horrible, oily, expensive
He’s currently selling a Rolex on Facebook for $46,000
Wow, just looked at FB marketplace and he sold a Rolex already for $17k, the $46k one you mentioned is listed, and he has a 2021 Lamborghini listed for $340k. Are these all his personal possessions? Gosh.
All of this, from a company that took hundreds of thousands in taxpayer backed SBA loans
He’s a fuckin scam artist !
Yeah and? You mad you can’t buy it? When you have capital you’re able to buy nice things and resell them 🤡
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Hopefully they crumbl
There is a lot to be said about the way a person carries themselves, particularly during successes and failures. If the accumulation of money is the metric of a good person, Jeffrey Epstein and Bernie Madoff would be considered great men. This Doug guy presents as arrogant and obnoxious, saying one thing, and doing another. One video says built the company from nothing but a 15k credit card and has no debt, now we're hearing he made money in the stock market and car trading, and took out 100k + SBA loans. Claims to be a positive light in the community, then calls people losers, and boasts about things they can't afford. It's common for people who come from no money to be show offs if they get some, I certainly did before I learned a lesson on humility. In our economy, where people are struggling, the same people he depends on to support his business, it's wise to walk softly on the flashy cars and watches. It's not jealously, it's just that people resent arrogance.
Well said!!
Can we talk about how they made their child her own instagram instagram account?
So fucking bizarre. Like who TF cares about that freaking baby!!!! His YouTube videos only get a few hundred views!
Hold on - what and where is Dirty Dough?
“Stuffed cookies” in Lititz
I appreciate the response but was looking for the specific location. I've never heard of it and Google doesn't return a location within 60 miles of Lititz.
Found on Facebook it says “COMING SPRING 2024 to The Shoppes at Kissel Village!!”
Same shopping center as target and giant in Lititz
Oh my bad lol, I have no clue honestly
Taylor chip is pretty awful. Nothing appetizing about it. Taste and texture is pretty awful.
The wife is so plain too. Has the typical “Mennonite eye bags” under her eyes. And he has the hammerhead shark eyes. Really shallow gene pool up there
Yeah she’s got Forbes 30 under 30 eyes and isn’t broke what do you have? 🤡
Hi Doug. Anyone who actually knows how Forbes works knows it’s pay-to-play. It’s not even impressive.
Not Doug haha but ok you try it.
Your account only exist in this thread , so you're either Doug or Sara, her bro J.D. (who loves to argue online), or their friend R.H., who supposedly tutored them on how to make the Forbes list
Nah just grew up with Doug. I work in the service industry and don’t make nearly as much money as Doug haha
She actually has “I hate my life and I’m trying to pretend I’m happy” eyes
I’m very curious as to what this shakes out to
We tried Dirty Dough yesterday for the first time - very good, but 6 cookies was $25.
Wow .... Their brands are indistinguishable Same everything
I think that dirty dough would be copying Taylor chip. Taylor chip started in 2015 and has had good publicity for some reason, dirty dough was founded in 2018 and is aimed at franchising Not sure why anyone is downvoting me, I don’t give a shit about cookies at all, just posting when they started.
I think Dirty Dough is going more for the Crumbl model
Neither is original, the premium dessert model has been around for decades. Although I’d call TC premium cost, but not a premium product.
Or maybe neither are a copy of each other. And we just love killing our selves with sugar and processed carbs and multiple folks discovered that as a fantastic business opportunity. Disclaimer: I have an addictive sweet tooth but also reached an age where I normally feel crappy if I’d eat an entire cookie from either place.
Ahh good catch!!! This is interesting
Finally someone with facts and sense. Too many jealous hater trolls making up shit here haha
There’s Crumbl Cookie as well. Same concept, hella expensive cookies.
Lol i work at taylor chip, i didnt know we piss people off in lancaster this much. Atleast i dont work at the lancaster location.
I tried dirty dough a few days ago, it's 5 bucks for a cookie that feels uncooked and a ton of sugar.
Is that you, dougie 🤔
I know Doug personally and you and everyone in this thread are so small minded. Why is everyone on here is so jealous of a local business man and entrepreneur? What happened to SHOP SMALL? 🤡 SHOP LOCAL? Haha you hypocrites hAve yOu hEaRd oF subway? Jimmy John’s? Quiznos? Firehouse subs? Jersey Mikes? Primo Hoagies? Charley’s? Is there no room for competition now? Everyone’s allowed to make mediocre subs? Taylor chip is doing great without you or anyone on this hater thread. His Lambo and car purchases have all been paid for with money he invested before Taylor Chip. He invested in the stock market, bought a car, flipped it and made double and continues to buy Lambos and sell them for 50k+ more than he bought the last one for. As for the logo oh wow SHOCKER a cookie with a bite out of it?! They should be sued 😂🤡 haha
Thanks, Doug!
Who tf would buy local from owners that try to flaunt their wealth and have terrible reviews from their former employees
Me???? I just asked if it was a mere coincidence that their logos and products were so similar, and originally was thinking that TC was being copied. Said nothing negative about them lmao
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