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Our desired concept of having a shared butler's pantry in the clouds requires a sophisticated, technically-intricate, beautiful website.

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Project Description

Welcome to the Party! 

At the Butler's Pantry we are striving to create a shared butler's pantry in the cloud, making entertaining from home effortless, sustainable, and tailored for all of life's events.  Our vision is to bring friends and loved ones around the table to create memorable moments.

The Spark

We are like so many other consumers who love to host from their home. We love to collect serving dishes and glassware and accessories to dress up the table with. Our problem is we don't have the funds to continuously switch up our collection, nor do we have the space to store all of our favorite pieces. We love to switch our tablescape as often as traditional retailers love to provide us with new product but we recognize that this is not healthy for our environment.  Donating our no longer used pieces only passes the problem on to someone else and trying to sell the pieces is a time-consuming burden. 

To solve these problems, we've thrown our collection up into the cloud! The Butler's Pantry solves these issues by renting out anything you could need to complete your tablescape--dinnerware, glassware, table linens, table decor.  This concept allows hosts to switch up their tablescape or use product they wouldn't use on their everyday table at a lower cost than tradition retail. It relieves the burden of trying to find storage space in your home for bulky serving pieces, flatware collections, and multiple table linens.  Even better, The Butler's Pantry is a sustainable option, slowing the rate of overconsumption, extending the lifespan of products and keeping them from landfills longer.

The Opportunities are Endless

The Butler's Pantry targets the frequent host; someone who loves to entertain friends and family from home, loves to make the occasion special by dressing up the table, and loves to switch up the tablescape accordingly to the holiday or affair.  The Butler's Pantry allows them to do so without the headaches mentioned prior.

However, The Butler's Pantry is also fitting for the infrequent host.  Perhaps it is your turn to host Thanksgiving dinner; your everyday dinnerware, mismatched flatware, and papertowels are not going to cut it but purchasing all new for one dinner is impractical.  This host is going to benefit greatly from The Butler's Pantry.

The Butler's Pantry's opportunity market is essentially any consumer who shops traditional home decor retail, instead of buying from them, they are renting from us.  This option should be especially appealing to consumers who are conscious of supporting small businesses or being environmentally friendly.  The Butler's Pantry supports many small businesses and independent artisans.  As well, outside of the overall concept of The Butler's Pantry being sustainable, we try to use environmentally friendly packing materials and we use a carbon-neutral shipping company to ship our products to you.

Why We Need Your Help

The Butler's Pantry is seeking funding to build a beautiful, more technologically-sophisticated website, better suited for our business.  Currently, our website is our storefront so it is important to us for the website to work properly, giving our customers the ability to receive what they came to The Butler's Pantry for.  Given our unique e-commerce business model, the website needs a more customized checkout process.  These website improvements will ease the user experience as well as streamline backend operations.  Building these new website capabilities is beyond our expertise, therefore we plan to outsource the work.  $10,000 will cover these website improvements.  Should there be excess we plan to put it towards covering the domain name and email communications regarding orders.  In otherwords, all of the money raised is going towards the face of our business and bettering the experience for our customers. 

Meet Your Hosts

Alex

While working on my marketing degree, I studied, in-depth, the fashion industry’s impact on the environment and interned for a local, sustainable fashion designer. After graduation, I found myself in a retail setting, specializing in entertaining and kitchen. I realized a lot of product was needed to complete one tablescape for one dinner party and that product was likely to be used a handful of times before being replaced. This did not match my personal values of consuming more sustainably and I wanted to offer consumers with similar values another option. I witnessed many consumers leave the store without the serving dish they loved but didn’t have room to store or without the trendy napkins they could not justify making a staple in their dining room.  Through The Butler’s Pantry, my goal is to give consumers their dream tablescape for every dinner party, without sacrificing sustainability, storage space, or personality. I was able to bring my knowledge of entertaining essentials and my experience in marketing to bring our customers beautiful, practical, quality products. 

Judi

With a background in interior design and as a mother, transforming a house into a home has always been of utmost importance to me. Having an appreciation and passion for entertaining, I find it exciting to design my own get-togethers so starting the Butler’s Pantry was an easy next step for me. It has been even more meaningful and exhilarating to fashion the designs The Butler’s Pantry has to offer you. Bringing my style and ideas to the table, literally, along with collaborating with other artists and designers allows us to offer the hosts an array of design styles that suit all occasions and entertaining pallets. Our hope is that we have helped you make entertaining effortless, beautiful, and above all enjoyable. Therefore, letting you focus more on the people and the occasion.

Cheers to You!

We want to offer you many thanks and our greatest appreciation for supporting our business! We sincerely want to see our customers bringing friends and loved ones around the table to create memorable moments.  Established amid a global pandemic there was a desire to surround ourselves with friends and loved ones.  We believe some of our best memories and deepest connections are made from around the table--be it breakfast, lunch, dinner, or anything in between.  We wish our customers comparable joy around their table.  

 

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Monetary Contribution

Just Because I Care

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10.00 USD
Cheers To You!

As a special thanks, we want to send you a thank you card and give you a personalized shoutout on our social media pages!

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25.00 USD
Cheers Y'all!

A proper thanks is in order so we want to send you a Butler's Pantry box filled with goodies from Nashville along with a personalized shoutout post on our social media pages!

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50.00 USD
Cheers to You--Literally!

We want to give a special cheers to you by sending you a pair of champagne flutes along with giving you a personal shoutout post on our social media pages!

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100.00 USD
Let's Support Each Other

TBD

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200.00 USD
The Party is On Us!

As a special thanks, we want to give you a year's worth of unlimited access to the Butler's Pantry product so you can host beautiful parties all year long!

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