13/05/2026
Holy moments
The last month has been a real mix of different things at HG. All the usual things of those monthly flavours dropping as well as a few “think on your feet” moments and a special trip to NYC for some inspiration 🙌
We find ourselves in an exciting time for us as a business, we’ve got the BEST team and they do such a good job of keeping the show on the road, but we’re also still small so when life happens we’re back on the frontline figuring out problems and filling gaps. Theres was a day a couple of weeks ago when the coffee machine in Preston broke so we decided to do cold brew. It’s was one of those cool moments where team work kicked in. Me and Hannah had never done cold brew before but Lucy on our team had, so we followed her step by step process and at least has something to offer in Preston while the machine was fixed. To be fair it was done pretty quick which is a win!
Robean our little Robin neighbour (who we secretly think is a high powered lawyer on Winckley Square) keeps popping in for his daily double espresso and bird seeds, his wife even joins us sometimes.
Finally, we took a weekend trip to NYC at the end of April which was amazing. The food scene is incredible, I was thinking of adding some photos of the food but it wouldn’t do it justice. We sampled a ton of bagels which will serve as good inspiration for our own selection which will be released soon, great coffee and of course a load of doughnuts. We came away with new ideas in terms of how to make our products better but also simply how to create small spaces that actually work well for businesses like ours. A worthwhile trip.
We’re currently working on rolling out dem bagels 🥯 and also we’re assessing a couple of new locations. The goal was to open two new locations this year - will we do it?! I hope so! Stay tuned :-)
