2 BROKE GIRLS is a comedy about two young women waitressing at a greasy diner. The two twenty-somethings strike up an unlikely friendship. Max, Kat Dennings, is from a poor working-class family while Caroline, Beth Behrs, was born rich but is now poor due to her father getting caught operating a Bernie Madoff-esque Ponzi scheme.
Caroline discovers Max’s knack for baking delicious cupcakes and sees a lucrative future for them if only they had the cash to start their venture.
Season two follows Max and Caroline as they attempt to open their shop. After Martha Stewart tries one of their cupcakes in season one, the girls are determined to make themselves wealthy business owners. With Caroline unhappy over the upcoming auction of her family property,
Max and Caroline decide to pay Caroline’s father, Martin, a visit in prison. Max and Martin bond quickly. He enlists Max’s help in getting Caroline to attend the auction where the contents of their old townhouse will be put up for sale. Martin tells the girls to buy an old loving cup that Caroline won riding Chestnut, her prized horse, as a child. He claims that it is the only item in the auction with ‘real value.’ Max believes that Martin has stashed some of his money in the cup and she becomes obsessed with the idea of getting rich quick.
Caroline convinces Max to audition for Cupcake Wars, a Food Network show, to build their business. They find themselves competing against two New Orleans-based women with a better brand.
After a blurb about their business appears in Martha Stewart Living, orders pick up and Caroline persuades Max that they should rent a nearby vacant storefront to use as their shop. However, they are unable to find anyone willing to lend them the money.
The girls decide to hire an intern to help get their cupcake shop ready to open but Max finds it difficult to step into a managerial role.
As they work out the kinks, the girls host a grand-opening celebration at their shop. Max invites her former flame Johnny to the party but when he shows up, Caroline has a freak out.
The girls continue to try and make ends meet. Short on the store’s rent, Max and Caroline turn to some sketchy and dubious people to help them pay.
Later, an overwhelmed Max and Caroline need help meeting a massive cupcake order. The diner staff pulls an all-nighter to get the job done. Max’s idea to rename the shop’s cupcakes after 1990s celebrities brings in a large number of customers, many of them hipsters. After the girls attempt to remove a street performer from the entrance of the shop, the performer slips on a stray cupcake and sues the shop for damages to his marionette. Without insurance, the girls must resort to strange methods to make the man not sue them.
As the bills pile up, Max and Caroline ask Caroline’s rich but callous aunt for money to save their cupcake shop.
When family issues get in the way of their loan, Max talks Caroline into taking a temp position at a nearby office
The position soon leads to the possibility of a permanent job for Caroline, but Max has not given up on the cupcake business just yet.
After Caroline is fired for making disparaging remarks to a customer at the diner, she tries her hand at decorating. She produces unsatisfactory results for her customer leaving Max to scheme and get Caroline’s job back. Tune in to see what other trouble Caroline and Max can get into.