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Welcome back to Eater News, a semi-regular round-up of mini news bites. Have info to share? Email intel to seattle@eater.com.
- Mi Kim’s popular but intermittent pop-up Raised Doughnuts has found a permanent home in the Central District. Her gluten-free mochi doughnuts, maple bars, and raspberry holes will live at 23rd and Spring, hopefully by May.
- Essential Baking Company’s Take and Bake bread is now being sold in select retailers nationwide. The bakery has also reduced the amount of packaging to reduce waste.
- With its unusually shaped Mexican baked goods and its drag queen costume-inspired Rupaul’s Drag Cakes, Wallingford’s Cubes Baking Co. has been named Small Business of the Month by Seattle’s Office of Economic Development.
- Orin Smith, Starbucks CEO from 2000 to 2005 and UW Regent, has died at age 75 of pancreatic cancer.
- An Arizona girl who attempted to take her horse through a Starbucks drive-thru was denied service. A Starbucks spokesperson said the drive-thru is for cars only, even though there are videos online of others being served on horseback.
