Nearly 3 years after purchasing internal Atlanta coffee code Octane from Diane and Tony Riffel, Revelator lets a franchise end during a Jane in Grant Park on Dec 31. Little Tart Bakeshop, that has common a space with a coffee emporium given a Octane days, takes over a whole space, including a kitchen, starting Jan 1, 2020.
In offer to a Jane, Revelator isn’t renewing a franchise during a Woodruff Arts Center in midtown, set to end May 31.
“We’ve only motionless not to replenish a leases on these spaces with all a other projects we have entrance adult in Atlanta. As for a Jane, looking behind to a commencement when that plcae initial opened, both Octane and Little Tart were really immature companies,” Revelator boss Josh Owen tells Eater Atlanta. “It done a lot of clarity to go into that space together then. But over time, both companies have grown a lot, and pity a space like that doesn’t make as most clarity now.”
As for a employees during a Jane location, many will change to other positions within a company, including to one of a 4 new Revelator-branded cafes and shops opening shortly in Peachtree Corners, Queen of Cream inside Phipps Plaza and during Plaza on Ponce, and Hazel Jane’s Wine Bar and Coffee in a Old Fourth Ward.
Revelator only non-stop their initial commissary kitchen in a city, that reserve all of a company’s baked products and sandwiches to a Atlanta locations. Hazel Jane’s cafeteria includes a full-service kitchen run by chef Brad Morris. It’s approaching to open along a Eastside Beltline after this summer.
At present, no vital changes are designed for Octane-Revelator’s strange plcae on Marietta Street. Although, a restoration could occur over a subsequent year.
Owen says he’s “thrilled” to see Sarah O’Brien expanding Little Tart in Grant Park, where a bakery initial began 8 years ago. The Jane is now Little Tart’s categorical prolongation facility. This enlargement eventually doubles a bakery’s production.
O’Brien, who non-stop her first full-service cafeteria in Summerhill in January, says she’ll spend a subsequent 6 months rethinking how to work a Grant Park space to accommodate Little Tart’s needs — generally in a kitchen.
“It’s roughly 8 years old, so it’s really due for a uninformed cloak of paint and some new furniture. we adore Grant Park so much,” says O’Brien. “I live in a neighborhood, and when we non-stop Little Tart during a Jane, we wanted to be tighten by so we could travel over. We’re not going anywhere, and we’re vehement to see what a destiny binds for us there now.”
As for what a destiny entails for Little Tart-Grant Park, O’Brien is deliberation some “fun ideas” but, wouldn’t elaborate any further.
“My staff and we have been operative out of a same kitchen there for 8 years behind when we had only one emporium and a integrate of farmers markets.”
“We’re really bustling production-wise so, a outrageous partial of what I’m focusing on right now is a offer of some-more kitchen space and causing as small intrusion to a business as probable once we take over a whole space subsequent year.”
Little Tart-Grant Park will expected offer Counter Culture coffee, as it does during Krog Street Market and in Summerhill.
For now, it’s business as common during a Jane for both Revelator and Little Tart.
Throughout May, Hazel Jane’s libation executive Melissa Davis and Morris pop-up in Grant Park on Wednesday evenings, starting during 6 p.m., charity previews of a food and booze on a menu during a stirring cafeteria and bar.