Chain: Cafe Yumm!
Café Yumm! Introduces Waste Reduction Policy
In an effort to reduce waste and create a higher standard for the industry, Café Yumm! has announced that it will now provide disposable single-use items only when requested. The restaurant company went beyond the recent sustainability ordinances that affect its Portland and Eugene locations by rolling out an extensive new policy to the entire […]
Café Yumm! Launches Menu for Yumm! Kids
Café Yumm! has introduced the new Yumm! Kids menu designed to delight and nourish even the pickiest youngster. Featuring organic, whole food ingredients prepared fresh and served fast, the five new menu items were thoughtfully created and portioned to satisfy kid-size appetites with a variety of customization options. This addition to the restaurant’s classic Yumm! Bowl focused […]
Café Yumm! Appoints Kimberly Ely COO in Rapid Expansion Plan
Café Yumm! has promoted longtime team member Kimberly Ely to the new position of Chief Operating Officer. This strategic promotion is important to a three-year development plan that Beau Delicious! International, LLC (BDI)—the franchisor of Café Yumm! restaurants—is putting in place. Kimberly Ely’s promotion to Chief Operating Officer will allow her to supervise operational initiatives […]
Café Yumm! Grows Management Team to Aid Expansion
Café Yumm! hired Sarah Mitchell for the new position of Project Manager. Mitchell has 11 years of experience managing various restaurant concepts in California and Oregon. She fell in love with the hospitality industry while earning a degree in Psychology and Social Behavior at UC Irvine. Until recently, Mitchell was the District Manager for an […]
Original Café Yumm! Reopens Following Major Remodel
Café Yumm! in The Meridian Building at 18th and Willamette in Eugene, Oregon, closed for a complete kitchen overhaul on New Year’s Eve. The restaurant will reopen this week after almost everything behind the service counter was removed and rebuilt in order to accommodate a modern, reimagined kitchen. Essex General Construction managed the project, which […]
Original Café Yumm! Reopens Following Major Remodel
Café Yumm! in The Meridian Building at 18th and Willamette in Eugene, Oregon, closed for a complete kitchen overhaul on New Year’s Eve. The restaurant will reopen this week after almost everything behind the service counter was removed and rebuilt in order to accommodate a modern, reimagined kitchen. Essex General Construction managed the project, which […]
Café Yumm! Releases Benefit Company Report
As Oregon’s First Benefit Company and one of 467 Benefit Companies headquartered in Oregon, Café Yumm! Issued its first ever Benefit Company Report this Earth Day. The Report consists of 24 pages of data, inspiring stories, photos, and explanation of how the company’s Triple Bottom Line efforts are being carried out. It is organized into […]
Café Yumm! Opens Nears St Charles Medical Center
Café Yumm! has opened in Neff Place Center at 1500 NE Cushing Drive near St. Charles Medical Center. This second Bend, Oregon, location is also owned by Karli Foster and Ellen Chamberlain, who opened their first Café Yumm! restaurant in December 2007 in The Old Mill District. Karli Foster began working at Café Yumm! in […]
Cafe Yumm! Sustains Five Years of Growth
Beau Delicious! International, the franchisor of Café Yumm! restaurants and manufacturer of food products including the popular Yumm! Sauce, has been named to Inc. Magazine’s Build 100 List. Inc. Magazine began The Build 100 Project by collecting data on more than 100,000 U.S. midmarket companies (those with 85 to 999 employees). It reviewed how many […]
Café Yumm! Opens in Seattle
Café Yumm! will celebrate the opening of its first Washington state location in downtown Seattle by serving free Yumm! Bowls on Saturday, November 2, from 11:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. The new restaurant is located in downtown Seattle at 717 Pine St. in a prime location near the Pike Street Public Market, Washington State Convention […]
Café Yumm! Ranked Nationally for Growth
The Inc. 500/5,000 list ranks one of the most important segments of the economy – America’s independent-minded entrepreneurs. Taken as a whole, these companies represent the backbone of the U.S. Economy. Café Yumm! is a six time honoree, having first been listed in 2008. The company’s most recent three year growth rate ending 2012 […]
Cafe Yumm! Recognized for Eco-Friendly Practices
BRING Recycling has re-certified Café Yumm! as a RE:think Business Program for incorporating processes and procedures to save resources and reduce waste. Conservation measures include incorporating into real estate leases a clause prohibiting the use of poisons in landscape maintenance, installation of the first solar powered electric vehicle charging station at a restaurant in the […]
Café Yumm! Welcomes New Assistant Marketing Director
Café Yumm!, one of Oregon’s fastest-growing privately held companies over the past five years, has hired Marne Dunder to fill the newly created position of assistant marketing director. Dunder is an Oregon native and a graduate of the University of Oregon. His past marketing experience includes work in planning, design, writing, and presentation. The new […]
Uwajimaya Grocery Stores to Sell Café Yumm! Sauce
Café Yumm! has partnered with Uwajimaya, Inc. to sell Yumm! Sauce at all four Uwajimaya stores in Oregon and Washington. With one Oregon location in Beaverton and three Washington locations in Seattle, Bellevue, and Renton, Uwajimaya, Inc. is the premier provider of Asian groceries in the Pacific Northwest. Uwajimmaya has operated in the Wahington since 1928. […]
Café Yumm! Joins Oregon State Bar for Sustainability
Café Yumm! and its legal and business office have been recognized by the Oregon State Bar Sustainable Future Section as a “Partner in Sustainability.” The Section created the “Partners in Sustainability Program” in 2012 in order to encourage law firms and offices of all sizes to adopt sustainable office practices. The Program honors those firms […]
Cafe Yumm! Has Sustainability On Its Mind
Café Yumm! announced the grand opening of its new restaurant in downtown Portland, Oregon, at 301 SW Morrison St. Grand opening festivities begin at 11:00 a.m. on Wednesday, May 25, with a ribbon cutting at the store sponsored by the Portland Business Alliance. Members of the Portland Business Alliance and Cori Jacobs, downtown retail advocate, […]