07/23/2026
ANNOUNCEMENT: Small Biz Growth is an odd duck. Grow too slowly and you scramble harder than you ever have to keep it alive while still fearing the end. Grow too fast and you risk alienating customers who want what you can't move fast enough to provide.
When I started in 2019, after cottage baking and meeting customers face to face at various Quik Trips, the goal became getting a single product out regionally to restaurants and grocery stores, and then MAYBE go national. I kinda sorta did that first part on a small scale, building pallets to sell to four different distributors for more than 150 retailers in 5 states. Then this shift or that shift happened, and you move as fast as you can AGAIN to pivot and survive.
Fast Forward to June 25, 2026, when I partnered with Chrisolyn's Gluten Free Bakery, an amazing pastry chef who's had her own brick and mortar in Waverly for 13 years, to open a storefront in Blue Springs. And boy, I am now very familiar with a whole new level of scramble and LOVE meeting so many people who've kept Fattyhead alive all these years. Thank You, Thank You!
But I now literally cannot move any faster, despite having help scheduled to come in more regularly, so (here's the announcement part) I've stopped wholesaling to the remaining few grocery stores that carried FH. But shipping baked crusts (nothing frozen) will resume in the fall, so anyone needing FH still has access!
I am so grateful to still be here and LOVE, LOVE The New Happy, Bright, Light, and Hopeful Place that so many of you are also enjoying. It's truly a pleasure to see and serve you! See you soon at Gluten Free & More Store by Chrisolyn's & Fattyhead.
