Best of Cy-Fair: Plum Coffee / Cake Fine Pastry

Plum Coffee/ Cake Fine Pastry

Community Business Owners Provide Real World Training for Students with Disabilities

Elizabeth 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.”

PLACES TO EAT

By Patricia Hudson

Let’s Talk Business

Jamal Sudduth 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!) 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

its Triple Chocolate Brownies, Sugar Cookies, Push Pop Cupcakes, among other sweet offerings. Special occasion custom made cakes are Elizabeth’s specialty. (My mouth waters with the prospect of sampling a morsel of Salted Caramel, French vanilla cake infused with caramel and toffee bits, or maybe just one little sliver of Italian Cream, vanilla cake infused with shaved coconut and walnuts with her signature vanilla buttercream icing!)

Halen Akins

Plum Coffee

11688 Barker Cypress Rd Cypress, TX 77433 Monday - Friday: 6AM–7PM Saturday: 7AM–7PM Sunday: 7AM–5PM Menu: plumcoffeeshop.com Phone: (281) 256-9400

Cake Fine Pastry

11688 Barker Cypress Rd. #A2 Cypress, TX 77433 Monday: 8AM–3PM Tuesday - Friday: 8AM–6PM Saturday: 8AM–3PM Website: cakefinepastry.com Phone: (713) 518-4868

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