Tuesday, November 19, 2024

[EXCLUSIVE] Piece of Cake to Take Smaller Slice of Space in Buckhead

Buckhead's Piece of Cake is on the move!  The popular cake shop and bakery is moving from its current and longstanding home in a freestanding building at 3215 Roswell Road to a space within Buckhead Court (3872 Roswell Road), just under a mile away.  

The new location will be considerably smaller than the current shop, measuring just 1,193 square feet compared to 3,306 presently.  Piece of Cake will occupy a portion of the former FASTSIGNS, which itself relocated to East Shadowlawn off Peachtree Road.  The small size will likely mean that no baking will occur on premise, as the company has transitioned to a commissary model.  The company's primary baking facility is on Collier Road in Underwood Hills. 

Cartel Properties, which owns the existing Piece of Cake property, is already marketing it for lease.  In the offering, the firm indicates that a new daycare is coming to the former Buckhead Saloon property next door which it also owns, but which has sat vacant since an October 2022 fire destroyed the building.  

The planned move comes just over one year after Atlanta-based Chicken Salad Chick acquired what was then the 10-unit Atlanta bakery business.  There are currently eight standard bakery locations - Buckhead, Camp Creek, Collier Road, Decatur, Dunwoody, Johns Creek, Kennesaw and Vinings, plus a licensed location on Terminal A at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.   

Piece of Cake has over the past year or so closed two locations, one, a "pop-up shop," on Peachtree Street in south Buckhead and another on North Point Drive in Alpharetta.  The North Point shop, located in Stone Walk at Northpoint, was perhaps the only location situated in a space next door to an existing Chicken Salad Chick.  

New Piece of Cake space in Buckhead Court

Piece of Cake was founded in 1985 by Melissa Bunnen Jernigan, who continues to serve as the company’s “Cakexpert.”

Sources close to the bakery tell ToNeTo Atlanta current plans call for a nearly seamless transition from one location to the next shortly after the first of next year.  

ToNeTo Atlanta reached out to representatives for Piece of Cake [Chicken Salad Chick] regarding the Buckhead shop and plans for potentially more stores, but did not receive an immediate reply.  

Are you a fan of Piece of Cake?  What is your favorite Piece of Cake flavor?  If Piece of Cake does expand either within Georgia or elsewhere, where would you most like to see them open next?

Please share your thoughts below.

14 comments:

Anonymous said...

Roswell Road is more of a "Piece of Hookah" location.

Anonymous said...

Then don’t go there. If it’s too scary for you to go somewhere like that, then stay home and make a Betty Crocker cake.

Anonymous said...

I like their white chocolate cake and their red velvet. In some ways I think they should focus on the locations they have and having their cake slices in Chicken Salad Chick like they currently do. Not sure expanding is the right thing. I've always found their Buckhead location to be their best one.

Anonymous said...

Their whole cakes from this Buckhead location were good when my office would get a bunch for the monthly birthday celebrations. The caramel cake was to die for! But then I tried the Dunwoody location, and the products were dry and overpriced.

Anonymous said...

What happened to the John’s Creek store? Moved or just closed?

Anonymous said...

He doesn't go there. He values his life.

Anonymous said...

Their cakes have gone seriously downhill. I don’t know what they have changed but we recently bought a cake that was so stale that I returned it after we cut one slice. While there, I spoke to another customer who had a similar experience. The replacement cake was not particularly good either, so I’m not going back.

Anonymous said...

people ‘dat’ get triggered when calling out crime, hookah, lousy service, etc…are probably part of the problem….gnowhaommsayin?

Anonymous said...

The people the smoke hookah make him scared. Like a ghost

Anonymous said...

"The people the smoke hookah". Please put the hookah down and get some help.

Anonymous said...

Same. Publix cakes are much better than Piece of Cake.

Anonymous said...

We've been less than thrilled about the last couple white chocolate cakes we've bought from Piece of Cake. Not sure if our tastes or the cakes have changed but we've kind of decided its no longer worth the cost and effort.

Anonymous said...

You must be choking on dry cake.

Anonymous said...

Johns creek is still there. Alpharetta at North Point closed

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