Business
BY DUSTIN BUTLER
Hey Sugar manager Maggie Evans scoops ice cream for customers in Celina.
Along with candy, Hey Sugar Candy Store also serves ice cream.
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Hey Sugar Candy Store o ers sweet treats in Celina Hey Sugar Candy Store is more than just a small town candy shop, manager Maggie Evans said.
Hey Sugar Candy Store o ers a number of sweet treats, including bulk candy options, chocolate and more.
What they o er The store o ers a number of candy selections, including bulk options of classic candies like Runts and fruit sours. They also sell lollipops, toys, chocolate and soda. “We try to keep everything as stocked as we can with all di erent kinds of variety,” Evans said. Along with candy, the store o ers ice cream from TX Creamery in Southlake, which is also owned by Kristin Britton. “We have about 30 to 40 avors at any given time,” Evans said. “We do try to mix it up a little bit; we usually have a seasonal assortment. We try to be as unique as we can.” Popular avors include Cookie Monster—a combination of cookie dough and cookies and cream—cinnamon ginger, Texas honey whiskey, mint chocolate chip, to ee and Hey Sugar, the store’s signature avor, which has Reece’s Pieces, Butter nger, M&Ms and bits of to ee. What else? Additionally, Hey Sugar o ers cookie decorat- ing and an event space for birthday and ice cream
Evans said Hey Sugar o ers a welcom- ing environment with details that are well thought-through. “Being here in Celina ... we all kind of know each other even though it’s expanding so fast,” Evans said. “Anytime people stop in here, they almost always run into someone they know. The background Evans said the store started when 10-year- old Clayton Britton talked his mother, Kristin Britton, into letting him sell candy out of a small Airstream trailer at his siblings equestrian event. Clayton Britton is now in college. “[Kristin] said [Clayton] could keep any pro t and he ended up bringing in like $1,000,” Evans said. “Every time a sibling had an event he brought the concession stand ... and they made a whole candy shop out of it.” The rst Hey Sugar Candy Store opened in Roa- noke, Evans said. There are now seven locations, including Waco and Broken Bow, Oklahoma. The Celina location opened in 2019.
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303 W. Pecan St., Celina www.heysugarcandy.com
parties . Sta will decorate the store for parties, Evans said. “We’ll have a plate with two cookies, frosting and sprinkles,” Evans said. “Then the birthday person gets to pick out what kind of topping they’d like from the bulk bin.”
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