From 100 cupcakes a day to 1,500 per hour

When Bob and Ellen Paulus started Cupcake-a-Rhee, selling 100 cupcakes a day was a good day — but now after about six years in business, the couple regularly caters events that go through 1,500 cupcakes in hours.

Over the years, the Pauluses have honed their craft and grown a start-up food truck business into a local dessert icon.

In 2016, the Pauluses transformed their Port Washington print company of 20 years into a commercial kitchen that would serve as a base for their cupcake-slinging food truck.