The Planned Parenthood of Illinois bake sale was supposed to start selling cookies Monday. But by late last week, the bake sale had already made more than $37,000 and sold out of cookie boxes, days before the sale was officially supposed to start.
Amanda Shepard, a pastry chef at Lula Cafe, says that when Behlke came calling there was no question as to whether Lula would participate.
The plan was to sell cookie boxes over the course of the next month, starting Monday, and have cookie boxes available for pickup the weekend of March 11. But after the Chicago Tribune published a short article about the bake sale on February 6, the bake sale’s website started getting traffic. Three days after the Tribune article ran, all 500 boxes had sold.
Cikowski says that Honey Butter received an e-mail from a future customer who pledged to eat at the restaurant because of its participation in the bake sale. But not every message has been as supportive.
