Plum Coffee/ Cake Fine Pastry
The Best of Cy-Fair P L AC E S TO E AT By Patricia Hudson
Community Business Owners Provide Real World Training for Students with Disabilities
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lizabeth Hale and her husband Jerry are owner/operators of Plum Coffee Shop and Cake Fine Pastry, two favorite “go to” places in Cypress. “We took over Plum because we didn’t want another Cypress independent coffee shop to die and be replaced with a franchise; it is hard balancing the two businesses, especially since my kids are no longer working at both places,” admits Elizabeth, a talented, hard-working baker and cake decorator. Grateful for the support of the Cy-Fair community, the couple is eager to “give back.” One of the ways they have been able to achieve this is through a training program partnership for Cy-Fair ISD special needs students. “We have collaborated with the Career and Technical Education for Students with Disabilities, (CTED), in CFISD for three years,” explains Elizabeth. “Working with the transition to employment students is a great
way to give back to our community, while giving students the opportunity to get real world job training. I work directly with them at Plum Coffee. I know that when they work at my coffee shop, they leave with an understanding of workplace and kitchen safety, and have completed the food handler’s certification which enables them to become employed at any restaurant.” Let’s Talk Business
Plum Coffee is an intimate café, where one can enjoy specialty coffees and teas, breakfast sandwiches, savory panini sandwiches made to order, delicious cupcake mason jars, cookies and scones, shakes and smoothies. Need to catch up on your emails? (I promise, they won’t run you off!)
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The Cake Fine Pastry motto is “We create cakes that create memories.” Ingredients for their baked creations are “locally sourced and imported from Europe.” Cake is well known for
