We would like to share our plan to relaunch the Seward Co-op Creamery Café. Since we closed the café for evening service last month, we have held multiple listening sessions with staff and owners. These have been very fruitful, and what we’ve heard has helped us shape the plan going forward, which is for a simple menu with familiar foods, at a fair price, using sustainably sourced ingredients, in a dining environment that is warm and conducive to conversation.

Our goal is to celebrate the grand reopening of the café in late August. The key elements of the relaunch include:

• An all-day menu with additional specials at night
• Ice cream (we’ll add a frozen ice cream case so we can offer four flavors of ice cream in addition to our two soft serve options)
• A family friendly environment
• Repainted walls with warmer colors
• More producer images and information throughout the café
• Improved sound attenuation for a more comfortable dining experience
• Exterior signage to make the café more welcoming
• Renaming the café “Seward Co-op Creamery Café” to more closely associate the café with Seward Co-op.

In order to fully prepare and implement the changes needed for the relaunch we will close the café starting July 4.

We want to thank our café staff and recognize them for all of their hard work, especially during this difficult transition. In July we plan to hire an Executive Chef and Front of House Supervisor who will lead the relaunch.

Throughout the summer, we will provide regular updates on progress toward the café relaunch. Please continue to visit seward.coop or www.coopcreamery.coop and follow us on Facebook at facebook.com/coopcreamery or Twitter attwitter.com/coopcreamery for updates.

In co-operation,

Sean Doyle
General Manager