Since opening its doors on Main Street in August of 2023, New England’s first Black-owned cheese shop, Eat Drink Explore Provisions, has pivoted and leaned into what its customer base wants. “We had to fall in love with new parts of our business and decide which ones we wanted to keep, which ones we wanted to recycle,” co-owner Daybar Bugler said. She emphasized that the … [Read more...] about EDEX Provisions evolves to meet customer tastes
Eat Drink Explore Provisions
Cheese shop overcomes challenges to thrive
As high schoolers in Peabody in the early 2000s, Daybar and Phil Bugler remember not having many retail options on Main Street. Two decades later, the couple wants to change that with their gourmet food retailer Eat Drink Explore (EDEX) Provisions, New England’s first black-owned cheese shop. “We are both very passionate food people. He's worked in the culinary world for … [Read more...] about Cheese shop overcomes challenges to thrive