News Gideon's Bakehouse May Be Cooking Up New Venture at Disney Springs

[second2phil]

The coffee cake cookie and peanut butter cookie are good, but the other cookies have way too much stuff on them. I actually can’t stand the chocolate chip cookie. I like cookies where you can actually taste the cookie part of the cookie. But that’s just me.

The theming is fantastic. And the peanut butter cold brew is absolutely fabulous!

Idk why people say they can't taste the dough on the chocolate chip, i've been eating them since well before the springs location opened and i definitely can. Are people just like eating the top and then throwing out the middle and bottom? Their cookies and cream cookie is also really good and the Frankenstein and bride of Frankenstein are annual traditions for me at this point.

 

[Comped]

I think location made it suffer. The concept is not new or unpopular tho. It likely would've done better at a resort. Look at a place like Hook's Barbery on DCL. Lots of guys go for high end shaves and cuts. I do.

It wasn't even a bad location - just that the price wasn't great except for targeting a particular range of tourist.

I miss when it was Downtown Disney and the bus would loudly tell you "AND BE SURE TO VISIT BONGOS HOSTED BY GLORIA AND EMILIO ESTEFAN!"

Probably because it simply wasn't that popular!

I also think a remote location from the main store for in-app/online purchases with scheduled (controlled) pickup times would be wildly popular, similar to the stand they have for Voodoo Doughnut across the way at Universal. I could see this location possibly working for both at once/

I'm surprised Voodoo is making enough money nowadays at that location - their donuts have shrunk significantly over time and their prices have increased, but people still seem to have lines out the door every time I'm at Citywalk. Which, as you noted, necessitates the stand. Kinda crazy, and even crazier that this isn't what is happening in Springs.

Springs doesn't need yet another bar. At all.

 

[FettFan]

Yay! More not-even-half-baked lumps of cookie dough delivered by min-wage drama club flunkouts with a weird “If Tim Burton Made Harry Potter” aesthetic.

Just what Disney Springs needs!

 

[FettFan]

Should I try those cookies?

Just hop over to Kroger for a tube of pillsbury. It’s better quality and much more wallet-friendly.

 

[Maccabee18]

If I had to guess I bet they are doing a coffee shop with maybe some other types of baked goods to separate the cookie crowds.

 

[Bocabear]

Just hop over to Kroger for a tube of pillsbury. It’s better quality and much more wallet-friendly.

Pilsbury is by no means better quality...a tube of corn syrup and chemicals....wallet friendly, yes, but whether you like Gideon's cookies or not, the quality is not necessarily in question... They used to sell cookies at the old Marketplace in Downtown Disney ( it was years and years ago) and they were pretty much the same style as Gideons... a giant lump of soft-baked dough... Not my favorite style of cookie.... but the business is interesting, some of our friends love them, so we always stop and get a few for them and a coffee for me ...

 

[LindseyDisney]

I wonder if ghostsofgideons, that former employee on Instagram is going to make any comments about the new project. If I remember correctly they seemed to disappear after Gideon's response.