Yates Mill Bakery in Talley Student Union is now accepting online orders for cakes and various other baked goods. 

Jennifer Gilmore, director of marketing and communication for Campus Enterprises, said the online ordering service started to help parents and family members send baked goods to students without having to cram cookies into envelopes or cakes into shipping crates.  

The bakery, which is based out of Talley Student Union, launched its online ordering service about two weeks ago and has since received 15 orders. 

Anybody interested in ordering a cake or other baked goods from Yates Mill need not worry, according to Gilmore, because the process is fairly pain free. Simply go online, choose what you want to order, personalize it (if you would like) and pay. 

After the order is placed and completed, the recipient will receive an email notifying him or her that he or she has an order to pick up at Yates Mill Bakery. 

However, two things are required to complete any online order: a credit or debit card and time. Orders must be placed at least three days before the desired date of confectionary consummation. And if you’re planning to place an order using dining dollars, don’t. 

Currently, students who would like to use the online ordering system would not be able to use dining dollars as a payment option, Gilmore said.

In addition to cakes, those involved with the project through Campus Enterprises are looking to expand the goods the bakery offers through its online ordering service.

Gilmore said she and her cohorts at Campus Enterprises are looking to add pies and other baked goods to the list of orderable goodies during the holidays.

Gilmore also said Campus Enterprises might partner with the bookstore to make gift baskets with baked goods and items from the bookstore available to order online. However, these plans have not been finalized. 

Though the online ordering service has been around for less than a month, it’s already exciting some students.

“I think that this service is a great idea because it’s a way for your parents to show you that they are thinking of you, which is important when you’re stressed out like many college students are,” said Hayley Derscheid, a senior in industrial engineering and psychology.

The online ordering service is particularly exciting to students, such as Abigail Keller, a freshman in English, whose parents don’t live near Raleigh. 

“This service is a great idea because my parents live at least three hours away and aren’t able to send me things in the mail because it’s so expensive, so this is a cool way for them to send me things,” Keller said.