GASTONIA, N.C. — Twelve various kinds of cobblers. Strive to decide on between cinnamon peach praline to caramel apple, and naturally peach, blackberry or strawberry.
Twelve completely different sorts of banana pudding. Some might select chocolate chocolate chip, others coconut cream, bourbon pecan, or what they name the O.G. − common banana pudding.
Or select, as many do, a dessert flight of a mixture or match of any 4 cobblers or banana puddings.
The proprietor of The Peach Cobbler Manufacturing facility believes in sweets and says she opened her new enterprise as a result of she thinks Gaston County residents want a spot for quite a lot of desserts.
“That is the sweetest place,” says proprietor Sparkle Agnew of her enterprise on the busy nook of Franklin Boulevard and Cox Street, behind Walgreens. “We provide one thing candy from the chilly to the new. We additionally promote cookies and 5 sorts of cinnamon rolls.
“Folks need sweets that they’ll’t get from a restaurant,” she stated.
The concept of getting two cobblers to go appealed to husband and spouse Ronnie and Rise Allen of Cherryville as they headed towards Myrtle Seaside, South Carolina.
“It’s undoubtedly completely different,” stated Ronnie Allen, who had heard of the enterprise from the couple’s daughter, who is aware of how her mother and father love cobblers
“That’s nearly as American as mother’s apple pie,” stated Ronnie Allen of his selection of dessert.
Door Sprint driver Carrie Robbins says she picks up meals for her prospects usually on the enterprise, noting lots of them are repeats. When she informed Agnew she had by no means sampled the meals herself, Agnew gave her a strawberry banana pudding to strive.
“It’s good,” Robbins stated. “Superb.”
Agnew spent the final 17 years working in Mecklenburg County in quite a lot of jobs starting from social providers, to the Sheriff’s Workplace to little one help. She stated she walked away in July and opened The Peach Cobbler Manufacturing facility after Thanksgiving, despite the fact that her solely expertise within the meals trade was as a server at Applebee’s whereas a pupil at Winston-Salem State College.
“I stepped out on religion. My father died in October 2021, and he at all times informed me to comply with my goals,” Agnew stated. “His dream for me was to do what I really like doing and that was serving folks.”
Agnew greeted each buyer as they walked in her retailer. She needs to create a household pleasant environment the place folks go away happier than they have been after they first walked in.
“I really like serving to folks, whether or not it’s giving them a smiling face or on this enterprise, giving them the most effective dessert ever,” she stated. “I’m glad when my prospects go away with a smiling face.”
When requested what a newcomer to her enterprise may need to order Agnew began recommending merchandise − candy potato pecan cobbler, crimson velvet banana pudding, blackberry peach cobbler, cherry swirl banana pudding.
“They’re all good,” she lastly stated. “That’s why lots of people get the dessert flights. They need to strive a bit little bit of all the things, they usually can’t resolve.”
All cobblers include a scoop of vanilla ice cream. The shop additionally sells “peachy tea,” chilly brew espresso and milk.
