Tuesday, February 16, 2021

Campbell's Seeks Help

 Cambell's Bakery owner Mitchell Moore created a Gofundmepage to help the longtime bakery:


 

I remember when we shut down in March of last year telling my amazing wife "I don't think we can survive this." Back then we didn't know how long the shut down would take or what would happen, but now we do. I have closed TWO restaurants in the past two months. All because of COVID. 

Opening a restaurant is expensive, but CLOSING a restaurant is equally expensive. The hole we got in because of the shut down we imagined would be filled with programs such as the EIDL (we were denied) or several grants (we didn't get them) or even the PPP (we got less than 20% of what was needed to pay our bills) but it wasn't. It just kept getting deeper, and at a certain point we had to stop digging. But that still leaves us in a hole and the only shovel we have is Campbell's Bakery. 

We would love to ask people to support the bakery so it doesn't close as well, and we are asking that! But there is a ceiling that we can't break through with bakery sales alone until we get through this pandemic and can hire, train, and increase our production. That isn't going to happen overnight. 

I consider myself a business owner, and asking for this kind of help goes against my nature. If I am here asking, I am at the end of my rope. 

I have always believed we are in this world together, and that serving people is the best way to live. It's why I started the If You're Buying We're Selling campaign with fellow business owners and friends. It's why we strive to serve people each day a the bakery. It's how I live my life and I am hoping that there are others out there who try to do the same. 

When we closed Campbell's Craft Donuts it surprised SO MANY people and they all said variations of "if we had known how bad it was" or "I hate we couldn't help more." This is me then letting others know how dire the situation is for Campbell'sBakery. If it is left to pay the debt load back for the closing of the other two restaurants it may not make it, and we need help. 

Thank you for reading this. It helps just to say it. 

 

30 comments:

Anonymous said...

Move the business next to a JPD precinct office.

Anonymous said...

JPD don’t get paid enough to afford Campbell’s.

Anonymous said...

So a failing business wants a gofundme bailout?

Anonymous said...

I spent $75 with them for a crappy cake in December, so I've already contributed.

Anonymous said...

Why kick the gentleman around, you ass-hats? His post was honest and heartfelt. Go out on the back porch and kick the shit out of your dog if your erectile dysfunction has you that fucked up!

CIDs are for Suckers said...

Boutique goes bustique. Peeps in Fondren and Belhaven talk a good game about mixed use and boutique and walk around shopping but talk more often than not is all they do.

Then there was all the creative class will save the day pablum.

Anonymous said...


Put your political views all over internet and piss potential customers off with views and then ask for support because of YOU being a dumbass? The country is basically 50/50 conservative or liberal and you blast one side and want help? Smart or successful businesses keep their views quiet and try to be successful, loudmouths that depend on those opposing your views but you need as customers will cause a company to get burned. You are a good example Mr Moore. Woke sometimes can cause you to go broke

Anonymous said...

Its dog eat dog out there

Anonymous said...

Stopped buying cookies from there when he stopped making Kitchen Sink ones available. *shrug* Who gives a rat's ass if another store closes in Jackson?

Anonymous said...

He may be selling if people are buying, but people are not buying what he is selling. Opening a boutique establishment in a city with a median income of under $25,000 may not have been the best idea.

Anonymous said...

He started "If You're Buying We're Selling," and now it seems he's selling (err, closing) because people weren't buying. Weird how that worked out. But maybe his target audience will, in fact, send him money for nothing.

Anonymous said...

Yes, I have to agree with someone above. Blast at least 50% or more of your patrons for voting for Trump and see how that turns out. Didn't work for that asshat that owned the Italian restaurant downtown either. That dude can't go an hour without posting on Facebook how horrible Republicans are and how great he is.

Beware, that GoFund may go to fund the hotrod he's building.

Anonymous said...

Peeps in Fondren and Belhaven talk a good game about mixed use and boutique and walk around shopping but talk more often than not is all they do.

Amen to this post! I remember when Be Bop closed and the same crowd whined about people not buying local or supporting an independent record shop, but it's not like the "Keep Fondren Funky" crowd was beating a path to their door. As if I am obligated to shop somewhere just so Fondrenites can have their local boutique business while they sneer at me for not living inside the city limits.

In the same vein, this past November on Record Store Day my daughter drove to midtown to a little store called OffBeat. It's run by a young African American man who has a passion for his business and his neighborhood (it's on Wesley Avenue just west of Millsaps College). She went there and the store had almost no customers, i.e. the Jackson Free Press faithful weren't spending their dollars in a local record store - the kind of business they cry about Madison and Rankin residents not supporting.

This is not to knock Moore or Campbell's. It's to shine a light on the hypocrisy that the hipper-than-thou residents of Fondren and Belhaven exhibit in such matters.

Talk is cheap. Actions count.

(oh, and by the way, my daughter lives in Rankin County)

Anonymous said...

My mom bought the fudge and caramel cakes there in the sixties and seventies and they were great. Haven't eaten there in 40 years regardless of the ownership. This guy is a real lefty with his rainbow cakes and cookies. Reap what you sow.

Anonymous said...

You're pretty damn stupid if you put TRUMP or BIDEN posters in ur window or on FB as a biz owner!! HAHA! As 3:40 said, If you're too damn stupid to know that, screw you... GOFUND ME.. HAHAHAHAHAH!!! DUMBA$$

(Biz owner 35+ yrs - IN JXN!!!)

Anonymous said...

" My mom bought the fudge and caramel cakes there in the sixties and seventies and they were great."

Same here, carrot cakes and red velvet cakes were my Mom's faves.
But that was an entirely different Cambell's Bakery.
What's the catch phrase . . . ( a long time ago in a galaxy far far away) ?

This guy has capitalized off the nostalgic name since day one.
Which was fine, if he upheld the quality of the original bakery.

But any business owner that is stupid enough to get into politics deserves what happens when they alienate half of their customer base.

Not everyone that buys his product lives in "The Fondren".








Anonymous said...

I loved their iced cookies but way too pricey. I just don’t think there are enough people in Jackson that can afford it

Anonymous said...

I refrained from posting in his previous Kingfish thread. You know the whole not kicking a man while he is down thing.

Anyway his food at the Belhaven location was really bad. The tacos were okay before CoVid started to become an issue here, but the time or two I went since then the food sucked. Like I can't cook and I could've figured it out better than that.

They started making tacos say 3 times bigger than "before,"" but they probably cost 4 times as much as before. The doughnuts looked super unhealthy; and they offered tater tots but no fries. Crap was weird. It was a little embarrassing the two occasions I knew of people from out of town going there. One of the great things abut Jackson is the good restaurants per capita. That place wasn't a part of said group.

Anonymous said...

The owner was anti-Trump. He won't get my business.

Anonymous said...

How does everyone know the owner's political leanings? Does he make it a habit to post on his business pages or harrass people from his personal acct?

Anonymous said...

5:39-
Was that the smug, mustached goat owner in Belhaven who ended up doing dinner concepts out of state? He used to pester a friend on fb damn near nightly.

Anonymous said...

Such hate! Be kind almost everyone has a GoFundMe account for some reason.
I might need one for ammo.

Anonymous said...

Small business is tough sledding as is, throw in COVID and things get tougher. Ms is likely 60% conservative.
So this goofball thinks it is groovy to insult 60% of his potential or actual customer base?

The business IQ of the state goes up every one of these businesses goes under.

Anonymous said...

Show me a small local business owner who shoves it in the face of their clientele that they are 'woke' and I'll show you a business owner who sooner, rather than later, will go broke.

Anonymous said...

Judging by the comments here, it seems that cancel culture is alive and well and took out another small business.

Anonymous said...

Refusing to do business with an establishment that offends you is NOT cancel culture. It's exercising your freedom.

Cancel culture is waging a war on social media against someone who may have an opinion you disagree with - even one he maintains in private - and pressuring others to fire him or bankrupt his business or smear his reputation simply for disagreeing with his stances.

I see no coordinated campaign to destroy Campbell's here. Your customers have every right to seek goods elsewhere if they disagree. But mounting a pressure campaign to "get you" is cancel culture and it's execrable.

Anonymous said...

10:42 Laughable. Not very astute are you? He "took" himself out.

You fit the D profile that always tries to blame others for your problems.

Anonymous said...

Campbell's cancelled? Red herring.

Anonymous said...

I posted this earlier: "Why kick the gentleman around, you ass-hats? His post was honest and heartfelt".

Having now been educated by a thorough reading of these posts, and with the court's permission, I wish to withdraw my earlier post.

All The Wiser said...

2:44 You know I found out a long time ago that just when I thought I knew all about a certain topic, after reading the many informative comments here on JJ, I COULD change my mind... thankful to those wiser and/or closer to the meat-of-the-matter than I was.

It pays to hold your breath sometimes.


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