Yumm! gets ready for Delta opening.Byline: RETAIL By Joe Mosley The Register-Guard Everything's coming up yummy for Cafe Yumm!, Eugene's upstart chain of rice-and-beans restaurants. The company's newest location is scheduled to open in a week, with a soft opening set for July 13 and a grand opening July 20 for the Cafe Yumm! flagship at Green Acres Green Acre is a conference facility in Eliot, Maine, in the United States. It was founded by Sarah Farmer in 1894. After Sarah Farmer became a Bahá'í in 1900, many Bahá'í speakers were invited, including Mírzá Abu'l-Fadl in 1903, `Abdu'l-Bahá in 1912 and Mírzá Road and Delta Highway The Delta Highway is a short limited-access freeway in Eugene, Oregon, United States, linking downtown Eugene with the Beltline Highway, northern Eugene and the Riverridge golf course to the north. . It will be the third company-owned store, joining existing Eugene locations at Oakway Center and the Meridian, at 1801 Willamette St. "We're putting the final touches on everything," said Ed Gerdes, the chain's secretary and general counsel. "We are enhancing some of the popular menu items and eliminating some of the less-popular items," Gerdes said. "Then the two existing (locations) will be converted over to the new menu board over the next couple of weeks." Meanwhile, plans are expected to be submitted this month to building officials in Bend for the first franchisee-owned Cafe Yumm! restaurant, which also will be the chain's first outlet outside Eugene. And training sessions are under way for workers at the new Green Acres store as well as for managerial employees at a pair of new franchises in Lane County that are expected to be under construction by the end of the year. Specific locations for those restaurants have not yet been announced. Cafe Yumm! set an initial target of 50 restaurants within five years when it announced earlier this year that it would begin franchising its brand of healthful health·ful adj. 1. Conducive to good health; salutary. 2. Healthy. health  ful·ness n. , casual-dining restaurants.
Plans call for expansion into the Portland, Corvallis and Medford-Ashland areas, followed by various markets in Washington and California. Gerdes said Thursday that he was not at liberty to identify the Bend franchisees, other than to say they are from Eugene and are in the restaurant business. "They were one of the first ... to contact us when we began to franchise," Gerdes said. "They've been longtime customers as well. They love the (Cafe Yumm!) concept, love the food, love the environment. They are business-savvy, experienced in the industry and have the financial ability to open up our first facility outside Lane County." The Bend store will be in a building that's under construction at the Old Mill District, a shopping center shopping center, a concentration of retail, service, and entertainment enterprises designed to serve the surrounding region. The modern shopping center differs from its antecedents—bazaars and marketplaces—in that the shops are usually amalgamated into across the Deschutes River Deschutes River may refer to one of these U.S. rivers:
The 2,400-square-foot space will be leased, with tenant improvements and equipment likely to cost about $450,000, Gerdes said. Modeled after Eugene's new Green Acres store, the Bend location is expected to open in November. The new Eugene store - in the Cornerstone building at the northeast corner of the Green Acres/Delta intersection - will feature what Gerdes described as "sustainability elements," such as booths made from building panels containing sorghum sorghum, tall, coarse annual (Sorghum vulgare) of the family Gramineae (grass family), somewhat similar in appearance to corn (but having the grain in a panicle rather than an ear) and used for much the same purposes. chaff chaff 1. chaffed hay; called also chop. 2. the winnowings from a threshing, consisting of awns, husks, glumes and other relatively indigestible materials. rather than wood fiber, and counters made from pressed paper waste. The current Cafe Yumm! restaurants have similar furnishings, including tabletops made from sunflower sunflower, any plant of the genus Helianthus of the family Asteraceae (aster family), annual or perennial herbs native to the New World and common throughout the United States. seed shells. Tenant improvements and equipment are expected to cost between $400,000 and $500,000 at the Green Acres store, Gerdes said. The restaurant will be open daily from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m., featuring rice and bean bowls The Bean Bowl was a non-NCAA-sanctioned American college football bowl game played in Scottsbluff, Nebraska in 1949 and 1950. Results Game Date Winner Score Loser Score Reference 1949 24 November Idaho State 20 Chadron State 2 [1] with Asian and Mediterranean sauces and toppings. The revamped menu will offer about 30 options for lunch and dinner. Retail Notebook runs on Fridays. Joe Mosley can be reached at 338-2384 or jmosley@ guardnet.com. |
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