New Cloud 9 Cereal Bar promises to make you feel like a kid again
A new cafe notion slated to open late this summer time at 3341 W. North Ave. is aiming to bring older people and kids with each other all around their love for breakfast cereal.

Cloud 9 Cereal Bar is the identify of the new cafe, which will offer breakfast, lunch and snack solutions, several of which will incorporate favored breakfast cereals.

Driving Cloud 9 is Kristina Rucker, a qualified nursing assistant and funeral providers expert who has often dreamed of staying her very own boss. 

“I‘ve usually preferred to begin my have company and give again to the local community,” she suggests, noting that her aspiration has been a long time in the building. “I enjoy to cook…it’s a person of my preferred items to do. And I’m quite superior at breakfast.”

Rucker says she’s appeared for areas in advance of with no accomplishment. But much more just lately, she arrived on the North Avenue retail place – positioned just throughout the road from the Boys & Girls Club – while hunting for a business kitchen. The 550 sq. foot place is tiny, she claims, but it has a kitchen area. So, she claims she’ll start out off small, but improve her dream from there.



The strategy, Rucker says, is to give the area a “Candyland theme” showcasing vibrant yellow partitions, televisions and cereal-impressed artwork. From there, she suggests, she’ll existing an very affordable menu of products such as bowls of cereal, pancakes and waffles incorporating flavored cereals and objects like cereal shakes.


The shakes, she states, will feature a alternative of vanilla, strawberry or chocolate ice product blended with a choice of two cereals. Other incorporate-ins like Twinkies or Very little Debbies could also be included, ensuing in cake shakes or cake and cereal shakes.

“If you are an adult, I want it to be a place that tends to make you sense like a kid again,” she suggests. “And I want it to be a location for youngsters to come out and love. We all keep in mind a time in our childhood when we just preferred to mix all our beloved cereals jointly. This is that area.”

Rucker claims she’ll also have some standard menu goods, including her signature rooster and waffles.

“We want to get started out little by little,” she states, “And do a few matters actually properly. But as we get transferring we’ll introduce new merchandise.”

Rucker says she expects Cloud 9 Cereal Bar to be open 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday by way of Wednesday (closed on Thursdays). You can stick to Cloud 9 Cereal Bar on Facebook.