Things like giving cookies to the local seniors’ homes and then buying gift cards from a local grocery store to give out to people. “When I opened the café I just kind of had to come up with more creative ways to do that and different ways.”ĭuring the pandemic, she started doing giveback missions. She missed that when she left the ambulance company. Kinden was part of the social club at the company where she worked as a paramedic and did outreach in the community. She recently shared her idea on Facebook and to promote it decorated coffee cup-shaped cookies with the names of some coffee shops, cafés and bakeries all over the province. It would change the atmosphere.” Kinden’s Bakery & Café owner Haley Kinden thinks people should make a bucket list of businesses like hers to visit this summer. So, when her husband says she needs to put in a drive-thru, Kinden says no way. “We’ve built a community around our café,” she told SaltWire. She also wants it to be a great place to work and goes out of her way to make sure her staff know they are appreciated. – Contributedįor her the business is about providing delicious baked goods and drinks, and a great atmosphere to enjoy it in. Haley Kinden has dedicated a wall in her Lewisporte shop, Kinden’s Bakery & Café, to her family’s baking history. So, we’re in our fourth year, but we’re still here, so I guess that means something.” Kinden’s Bakery & Café opened in December 2019, just a few months before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, and she had to shut down. Kinden couldn’t let the opportunity pass and in May 2019 contacted NLOWE to get some help with starting a business. One suggestion was a café, because other than the chain coffee shops there was no local café in town. It had been posted on Facebook and people were making suggestions about what it could be used for. I was scared it was going to take the enjoyment out of it.” - Haley KindenĪt the same time, the building the café is in, which used to be the office of The Pilot newspaper, was for rent.
“I was really scared to turn a hobby into a career. What she didn’t love was missing so much of her three sons’ lives, and just over four years ago she started to think she didn’t want to look back and regret that missed time. I was scared it was going to take the enjoyment out of it.”īesides, she loved her job. She had been making and decorating cakes on the side and her husband, Matthew Kinden, would often tell her she was going to own her own shop. She spent her summers in Lewisporte with her grandmother, Audrey (Northcott) Knox, and when she graduated from high school she moved to the town and became a paramedic. Haley Kinden, owner of Kinden’s Bakery & Café in Lewisporte, hopes people will add her shop and others to their bucket list of places to visit this summer. Growing up she was involved in first aid and lifeguarding. He later opened his own bakery, Little Denmark, which closed when Kinden was a teen.īut the bakery business wasn’t her first choice as a career. Her dad, Thomas Nielsen, was a teenager when his father died, and left school to take over the business. Her grandfather started a bakery, The Danish Family Bakery, in Ontario after immigrating to Canada from Denmark. Originally from Ontario, Kinden has lived in Lewisporte for 17 years and is a third-generation baker.
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