Cy-Fair Edition | March 2022

Elizabeth and Jerry Hale source many menu items from other local businesses in the Greater Houston area. KEEP I NG I T LOCAL

DISHES TO TRY 1 Snickerdoodle latte ($6.47) 2 Scones ($3 each) 3 Chipotle club ($7.97) with blue tea lemonade ($4.10)

Scones and other pastries are made at Cake Fine Pastry and brought over to Plum Coee.

“REALLYWHAT SETS US APART IS OUR STRIVE FOR BEING LOCAL ANDOUR DIVERSITY.” ELIZABETH HALE, OWNER OF PLUM COFFEE

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Owner Elizabeth Hale oversees the day-to-day operations of Plum Coee. (Photos by Mikah Boyd/Community Impact Newspaper)

The bread for Plum Coee’s panini and sandwiches is from Slow Dough Bread Co. in Houston.

PlumCoee Cypress-based coee shop uses locally sourced goods J erry and Elizabeth Hale have been in Cy-Fair for 15 years and make sure the local busi- nesses they own express community pride. Plum Coee has been a part of the community for 10 years. When the original owners talked about closing the shop down three years ago, Elizabeth and Jerry stepped in to keep the business alive. BY MIKAH BOYD

[Coee] all on Barker Cypress [Road].” However, Elizabeth said she has found Plum Coee’s customer service and diversity make an impact on her visitors. “Really what sets us apart is our strive for being local [and our] diversity,” she said. “We’re super diverse. We want to bring in a lot of dierent cul- tures and dierent types of people and make sure that all the cultures and dierent types of people are welcome at our shop.” The environment is not the only thing that encourages engagement. Plum Coee’s drinks, pastries and other menu items make the business stand out among the rest, Elizabeth said. The pas- tries come from the Hales’ other Cy-Fair business, Cake Fine Pastry; the coee beans are sourced from Geva Coee in Houston; and the bread for the panini comes from Slow Dough Bread Co. in Houston. Elizabeth said her goal is to cater the shop to the community’s needs. “This isn’t our coee shop; this is Cypress’ coee shop; we just spearheaded it,” Elizabeth said. “This shop belongs to Cypress; Cypress tells us what to do with it.”

PlumCoee 11688 Barker Cypress Road, Cypress 281-256-9400 www.plumcoeeshop.com Hours: Mon-Fri. 6 a.m.-7 p.m., Sat. 7 a.m.-7 p.m., Sun. 7 a.m.-5 p.m. The coee beans used at Plum Coee come from Geva Coee in Houston.

“Plum was one of the few self-standing coee shops that didn’t belong to a franchise or wasn’t corporately owned, and they were getting ready to close, and we didn’t want them to close down, so we … took over,” Elizabeth said. After taking ownership of the business, the Hales lled the shop with locally sourced goods from the beans used to make the coee to the tables painted by a former Cy-Fair teacher. Despite these hyperlocal touches, Elizabeth said the main challenge she has faced is building awareness in the community she serves. “You know, just letting Cypress know that we are here,” she said. “That’s the biggest struggle out here because we’re on coee shop row, if you will. There’s PJ’s [Coee], Starbucks and Land of a Thousand Hills

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