Iz Is An Alabama Maker Feeling Its Oats

By Michael Tomberlin

When Chef Kay Reed of Iz Café in Vestavia Hills began offering baked goods, her cakes, breads, mousse bombs and dessert bites were popular and delicious, but not all that healthy.

Then she got the idea for fresh-made granola.

Her son, Stephen Reed, is general manager of Iz Café. He said the granola was important for another reason.

“It expands the brand by putting our name in other stores without us having to open up new locations everywhere,” he said. “We sell a lot of it and we have several stores that carry it.”

Those stores include Piggly Wiggly, Western Supermarkets, Whole Foods, Priester’s Pecans and Alabama Goods in the Birmingham area, Piggly Wiggly in Fairhope, Williams Orchard in Argo, Manna Grocery & Deli in Tuscaloosa, Blooming Colors in Auburn and Apple Market in Pensacola.

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