He said he was worried when Lulu's opening neared that they might have a hard time finding help, but is happy that did not turn out to be the case. Jim, who founded All-Star Sandwiches in Cambridge and also worked in restaurants in Boston and Brookline, said the opening of the café was delayed a bit because of supply-chain issues with equipment, but that those delays did allow Lulu's to avoid the recent omicron surge and the city's short-lived mask and vaccination orders. "I was making too many cookies at home so we transitioned to Lulu's," she said.
"During COVID everybody was finding some way to get a little something into their lives."Īfter a career in pastries, which included time as the pastry chef at the Ritz Carlton in the Buckhead commercial district of Atlanta, the Johnson & Wales alumna said she wanted to get back into baking, which ultimately led to the idea of a café over a chocolate shop. "It definitely hit hard with the little grocery stores and retail outlets but anybody that did gifting skyrocketed," she said. She said Fixx Chocolates weathered the coronavirus crisis through an increase in demand from wholesalers for inclusion in care packages. "And killer cinnamon rolls," Nikki declared. It is also next to what will soon be the new Real Pirates Museum.Īlong with the chocolates, Lulu's offers sandwiches, coffee drinks, salads, soups, a special breakfast egg sandwich on Nikki’s signature biscuits as well as custom cakes.
Lulu's is located next to Notch Brewing Company and Brothers Taverna restaurant. We have a lot of friends in the food industry and we heard all about what people were going through. For a while, banks weren't loaning money to people in the restaurant business. Shortage of products and equipment because of supply-chain trouble. "It's certainly been challenging - no question about that - from a lot of different angles.
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"It was all the emotions," Jim told Patch on Wednesday. The Salem couple was getting set to open in Lynn two years when the onset of the COVID-19 crisis hit and the investor they were working with pulled funding. They soon started thinking about setting up shop somewhere north of Boston with their extended path to downtown Salem including potential stops in Ipswich, Lynn and Melrose, as well as a flirtation with a cannabis company that wanted to use Nikki's chocolates as edibles. Nikki and Jim Economides met in 2014 about a year after the pastry chef began selling her chocolate creations wholesale. SALEM, MA – A long and winding journey to find a retail location for Nikki Economides to sell her Fixx Chocolate creations has led to Thursday’s grand opening of the new Lulu’s Bakery & Pantry on Derby Street in Salem.
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