IF YOU WERE WONDERING—

So what’s your deal?

The Stack offers handmade, fresh daily donuts, and imports coffee beans from all over the world that are locally blended and roasted in small batches. We’re really proud of our products and we don’t put our name on anything less than delicious. But that’s just half of it. We give a damn too. The Stack is not a large chain that has the benefits of brand recognition to help it succeed in its new home. We don’t have massive corporate training budgets or high gloss advertisements in magazines. All we have is a small team of talented, dedicated individuals working side by side each day to execute our vision of what a store like ours could be for a city like Columbus. We are fair, transparent, and community minded. We make a limited selection of indisputably delicious goods, and we show up every day to put it on the line and show you what we’ve got.

What about your Hilliard location? You aren’t leaving are you?

To our friends in Hilliard—NO OF COURSE WE AREN’T! Our location in Hilliard, which houses our bakery and coffee roaster, is an integral part of our new operation. It’s where all of the production of our donuts and coffee happens, and we are not planning on going anywhere anytime soon. So rest easy Hilliard, and thank you a million times over for years and years of relationships, successes, laughter and support.

So you don’t make your donuts on site? How can you call them handmade fresh daily?

Because they are. After almost a decade, we know that making many hundreds of pounds of donuts a day is a tall order. It takes plenty of space, specialized equipment, and above all else, time. Because of this, many larger companies produce, freeze, and ship their products great lengths before the donut even touches a human’s hand, let alone reaches the mouth of the consumer. Our donuts are made eight miles away from our Lane Avenue storefront each day, in Hilliard, by a handful of people, and are delivered at the peak of freshness way before the sun rises. They’re just as fresh as the ones sold in our bakery every morning.

You say your coffee is local. Where does your coffee come from?

You can grow coffee in Ohio, but you wouldn’t want to. “Local Coffee” refers to our Hilliard roasting location where our roast master Tim Hofmann roasts blends and single origin coffees from all over the world. We roast all of the coffee for three independently owned shops in Hilliard, each one with unique house blends that are exclusive to the storefront.

“Local Coffee” also refers to a “Whoever said we couldn’t?” approach to drink making and recipe creation. Our creations come from the minds of real people who handle our coffee every day, not from extensive reports about consumer trends produced by our on staff data analysts. We don’t have any of those. While we are always serving the staples, we encourage you to get weird with it. Try something new, it never  rarely hurts.