Hans Bakery Brings Back Lunch Service

Thu., July 9, 1998

By Angie Gaddy angieg@spokesman.com

The new owners of Hans Bakery on East Sprague Avenue are serving up everything from macadamia nut pie to chicken dumpling soup.

Last week, owners Keith Hamlin and Alex Gill started serving lunch the way Hans and Marianne Mueller used to.

“So many people kept asking for it. They were used to it,” Gill said.

Hamlin and Gill closed the pastry shop at 11413 E. Sprague in August 1996 after Marianne retired. The two had purchased the business from the Muellers after running Jandyl’s Desserts on Northwest Boulevard.

For a year and half they operated just the bakery for wholesale items and then reopened the bistro in January.

The lunch menu includes soups, salads and sandwiches. Prices range from $1.45 for soup to $5.95 for an 8-inch submarine sandwich. Lunch will begin at 10:30 a.m.

The hours won’t change. The business will still be open from 6 a.m. to 2 p.m. And it will still be serving up decadent desserts.

Kinko’s copy shop moving

Kinko’s copy shop is moving from 15204 E. Sprague to the former Smith’s Furniture building at Sprague and Sullivan.

The copy shop will move from its current 5,500-square-foot store into 11,000 square feet of space on July 31.

The new location, two stores away from the 50% Off Cards store, will have a training center for all Coeur d’Alene and Spokane area employees, said Casey Triplett, assistant store manager.

Kinko’s plans to stay open during the move and close its present shop only after things are up and running at the new store.

Adult ‘superstore’ opens

Castle Superstore, an adult retail store, opened two weeks ago at 11324 E. Sprague in the former Hastings location.

Castle, which calls itself “America’s safer sex superstore”, specializes in educational books, videos, and sensual-enhancement adult products, said Craig McNichol, director of new store development.

Castle has two other Washington stores, one in Tacoma and another in Silverdale.

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