FRED, KEVIN, GREGORY, and RUTHIE meet in a board room.
FRED
Gregory, how’s production going on the SOKE Bar.
GREGORY
Well, they’re being made.
FRED
Kevin, are we staying within budget?
KEVIN
Well, we really are putting a lot of resources into this. Still think we should look into firing whoever offered to give that Lorenzo guy lawyers. Thankfully he declined.
FRED
Uh…yeah…wouldn’t know who that was because it wasn’t me, anyways it looks like so far so good right?
RUTHIE
Sure.
FRED
I think everyone’s gonna really like our shift to the SOKE Bar. What’s not to like?
CHRISTINA comes running into the board room.
FRED
Christina! We were all wondering where you were!
CHRISTINA
Yeah whatever, I have BAD news. Like, REALLY bad news.
FRED
What is it?
CHRISTINA
People are NOT happy about us discontinuing every other SugarCity product.
FRED
Wait…how do they even know about that?
CHRISTINA
We put out a press release, sent it out in a newsletter, posted about it, told Congress…you know, the usual.
FRED
I never signed off on any of that!
CHRISTINA
Is that not what you wanted?
FRED
No! We were just gonna silently phase out our other products!
CHRISTINA
They would’ve noticed.
FRED
This is a disaster. Okay…let’s just put a few of the more popular items back into production.
GREGORY
Too late. All the resources are going into the SOKE Bar.
FRED pauses.
FRED
So this is really all we have now. An angry customer base with no way to bring back what they want.
GREGORY
Yup.
FRED
Okay. Well…the SOKE Bar should be on shelves nationwide soon enough. This will all blow over.
KEVIN
Hopefully. We need this to be good for profits. I really do think you need to consider cutting salaries though.
FRED
Let’s focus on damage control from the angry customers for now. Christina, make an announcement that the SOKE Bar will be available nationwide at the end of the week. Right, is that doable Gregory?
GREGORY
I’ll tell the factory workers to speed things along.
FRED
Perfect, Ruthie, I want you to…
RUTHIE
What?
FRED
I’m trying to think what I can have you do.
RUTHIE
I’m fine doing nothing.
FRED
Okay then. And Kevin, make no mistake: There will be no wage cuts.
KEVIN
Good luck with that.
FRED
Okay, good meeting. The SOKE Bar is about to be one of the best-selling candy bars of all-time, I can feel it now.
RUTHIE
Not as good as a Baby Ruthie would do.
FRED
Meeting dismissed.