01/29/2026
Hi friends!
Lots to talk about in this post, this’ll be a long caption 😅
This weekend (fri 1/30 + sat 1/31) marks the last couple of days of our annual LOTR/BDAY menu!
We have a Hotplate menu that will be dropping tonight at 7pm for Saturday pre-orders for those who don’t feel like dealing with the potential of a long walk-in line at the beginning of the day 🫡
We’ll have regular hours Friday (11-6) and adjusted hours Saturday: 11-2 for walk-ins, soft closing at 2 to get set up for order pick-ups, then Hotplate order pick-ups will be from 2:30-4.
Saturday is also Gasparilla (👀) but the pirate shenanigans shouldn’t have any effect on traffic/parking/street closures around the shop. We never quite know what to expect (as far as how busy our shop will be) when there’s a big local event like this, but we plan to just bake a ton and hope for the best ✨
SPEAKING OF HOURS
Starting next week, as of Wednesday 2/4, we’ll be open w-fr 9am-4pm and sat 11am-4pm. It’ll be sad to see evenings go, but the past year we’ve seen a large shift into busier mornings, much quieter evenings, and lots of inquiries into earlier open times, so we’re excited to give it a go!
FRIDAY (TOMORROW)
A little bit of serious talk y’all.
It came to our attention earlier today that there are calls for a nationwide strike/ shutdown protest planned for tomorrow (Fri 1/30). I couldn’t find a lot of information on if many businesses in our community are participating, but I also didn’t want to let it go by unacknowledged.
We had a team meeting to discuss and decided that we will be staying open; the reality is we have a lot of ingredients and labor that have already gone into prep for tomorrow’s menu and ultimately we’ve got to keep our staff and bills paid. ✨HOWEVER✨ the team offered to donate their tips from Friday 1/30 (+I’ll match that donation), we’ll all chose from https://www.standwithminnesota.com
Not feeling very eloquent today tbh, so I included a few LOTR memes that have been on my mind, increasingly, and have found some small comfort in when I’ve seen shared over the past year.
Thank you all SO MUCH for being here, and allowing us to be a part of and serve our community.
See y’all soon ✨