Article: Speed dating venture comes to Bakersfield.

Byline: Matt Phillips

Feb. 17--Two entrepreneurs see Bakersfield as a fertile market for speed dating.

Co-founders Marcela Solorio and Daphne Plump's company, Marcephne Speed Dating, will organize and manage local speed-dating events.

For the uninitiated, speed dating is a new mode of meeting people designed for busy singles. Think of it as a flirtatious version of musical chairs.

Solorio and Plump are still in the early stages of setting up their business. Both have day jobs working in local news. But they held their first speed-dating session Feb. 11.

Fifteen men and women attended. Small tea candles rested on red ...

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