Overview
- The bakery confirmed the pause as it sold its last slices at Berlin’s Green Week fair for €3.50, which was €1 more than last season.
- Owner Maximilian Schöppner says a can of cherries jumped from about €5.50 to €24.18, cites Europe‑wide tight supply, and alleges some traders are withholding stock to lift prices.
- The shop uses about 4,000 kilograms of cherries a year, and quoted wholesale costs have risen from roughly €7,000–€8,000 to demands of up to €32,000.
- Late frosts, including −5°C on May 6, 2025, damaged blossoms after a historically poor 2024 harvest, leading to underperforming yields in Brandenburg for two straight years.
- Plentz will pivot to apple, plum and poppy‑seed cakes for now, rejecting in‑store slice prices above €3 that it considers unfair to customers.