“Cake Boss” Buddy Valastro is closing up store in Santa Monica … shuttering his brick-and-mortar operation and pivoting to on-line orders solely.
Buddy owned Carlo’s Bake Store on the well-known Santa Monica Promenade, but it surely closed this week for good … and there is a signal on the door saying a public public sale for all the shop gear.
People at Carlo’s Bake Store inform TMZ … the Santa Monica location determined to not renew the lease because it shifts in direction of an e-commerce enterprise technique.
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We’re instructed the bakery was doing extra gross sales for on-line orders lately significantly in California, with fewer prospects truly coming by the storefront, even for people requesting deliveries close by.
Buddy’s not leaving the standard bakery setup altogether although … it feels like that is restricted to Santa Monica.
We’re instructed there is a new Carlo’s Bake Store opening this December in New York Metropolis’s Instances Sq. … which BV feels will appeal to locals and vacationers. There is definitely quite a lot of foot site visitors.
In the meantime, sadly, the oldsters who labored on the Santa Monica location look like dropping their jobs proper earlier than the vacations.