15 Overused RomCom Cliches We Don’t Want to See Again

8. She Wants to Start a Business…Which is a Bakery

In the quest to find herself and redefine her life, many a romcom protagonist turns towards opening their own business, which oftentimes is a bakery. The bakery concept makes it easy for the film to show us a montage of her learning how to bake, decorate with icing (getting a little on the nose, of course) and hanging her cute ‘open’ sign when she finally goes into business, without having to explain much. Don’t film execs realize the women in the kitchen idea is a bit antiquated? Not that there’s anything wrong with that kind of business, but we can’t all be cupcake entrepreneurs. We’ve seen it in: Bridesmaids, Chocolat, Waitress, Stranger Than Fiction, Two Broke Girls, How I Met Your Mother, The Muse, The Perfect Man, and Life As We Know It.