From a Toronto Café to 200+ Stores: How Lazy Daisy Foods Built a Brand Around a Customer Favorite!

About this episode

Dawn Chapman discusses the evolution of Lazy Daisy from a café to a retail brand with over 200 stores in Canada.

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Selling on Giants, Will sits down with Dawn Chapman, founder and CEO of Lazy Daisy Café and Lazy Daisy Foods, to discuss how a beloved neighborhood café in Toronto evolved into a growing consumer packaged goods brand now carried in over 200 stores across Canada. Dawn shares the story behind Lazy Daisy’s homemade, farm-inspired food philosophy and how customer demand for their famous buttermilk biscuits sparked the transition from cafe to retail. The conver...

People in this episode

Host: Will

Guest: Dawn Chapman

Topics covered

• brand building
• consumer packaged goods
• retail transition
• food philosophy
• customer demand

Keywords

• Lazy Daisy
• café
• consumer goods
• buttermilk biscuits
• retail
• food brand
• Toronto

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Lazy Daisy Café, Lazy Daisy Foods

Places: Toronto, Canada

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