The Golden Triangle is getting a farm-to-table bakery.
The Farmstead at Lone Oak is on schedule to open next week, Jessica Singer, the owner, told The Dispatch on Monday. It will be located in Steens at 8215 Hwy. 12 East — across the road from the Ole Country Store.
Singer said the bakery will offer everything from cakes (candy cane, chocolate-gingerbread-toffee, red and green velvet) to pies (butterscotch, egg custard, shoo-fly, pecan) to cookies to muffins to candy (fudge, etc.) to cheesecakes (eggnog, turtle, white chocolate raspberry) to dinner breads (yeast rolls, biscuits, cornbread) and more. Nothing will contain corn syrup. Singer said everything will be made from scratch, “the old-fashioned way” — that is, with real cream, sugar and butter, and with fruits from local farms.
Singer has been selling her items at the Hitching Lot Farmer’s Market and at area festivals, like Caledonia Days, and they proved popular.
The Farmstead at Lone Oak is going to kick off business next week with special orders only. They will eventually offer goods on the shelf to walk-in customers. When the business opens, a website will go live where online orders can be placed. Meanwhile, The Farmstead at Lone Oak has a Facebook page. That’s the best place to check out what they offer and place orders — like for the holidays, Singer said.
Moving on.
In Wednesday’s Dispatch we reported that Cracker Barrel has a job listing posted at careerbuilders.com stating that it is looking to hire a manager for a Columbus location. Not long after that story was published, officials with the Tennessee-based chain restaurant sent a statement to The Dispatch confirming interest in opening here.
Janella Escobar, director of corporate communications with Cracker Barrel, said: “Columbus is a community we are considering for a new store. We are in the preliminary stage at this time and hope to have more information to report in the future. What we can confirm is that Columbus is a great city and we are hopeful it will be the future home for a Cracker Barrel Old Country Store.”
Now, something interesting: Wal-Mart CEO Doug McMillon gave an interview to Charlie Rose with PBS recently. McMillon essentially said that some Walmart supercenters — there are about 3,300 — are “too big.” According to businessinsider.com, the supercenters are roughly 200,000 square feet — that’s about four football fields.
McMillon said the company has plans to downsize its supercenters.
“Some customers don’t want to walk all that far,” the CEO told Rose.
CJ’s Pizza has opened back up for business. It is located in Towne Square along 18th Avenue North. It is open 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. from Tuesday through Friday. It closes at 10 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday. The phone number is 662-798-0606.
Lastly, The Dispatch will not publish a newspaper on Christmas Day. Because of that, our weekly business page — including this column — will appear in next Wednesday’s edition.
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William Browning was managing editor for The Dispatch until June 2016.
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