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On The Job With … Cake Eater Bakery Sheela Namakkal and Emily Moore Harris may be punk rock at heart, but that doesn’t mean chaos rules at their Minneapolis-based shop, Cake Eater Bakery. This self-described “bad cop-bad cop” duo not only takes the craft of cupcake and coffee-making seriously—when it comes to running the bakery, they absolutely mean business. While many rocker-owned haunts depend on a steady workforce of jobless friends or fellow musicians needing cash flow until the next tour, Namakkal and Moore Harris have made it clear that quality and service come first. “We don’t want to be typical bosses, but we also don’t people to feel like they can walk all over us because we’re young and have a punk rock attitude,” Moore Harris says. Adds Namakkal, “We want to give the craziest good service