The state said the popular coffee roastery was in violation of its cottage food permit.
Customers wait in line at Remedee, where sisters Amanda and Colie Escobar run a small-batch craft coffee roastery out of the garage of their Bartram Ave. beach home in Atlantic City, NJ on Saturday, July 23, 2022. The sisters are part of New Jersey's new Cottage food operator law that gives permits to home bakers to sell from their homes. They began the initiative during the pandemic.
When the sisters went to renew the license before this summer’s season, the state wrote back that they had checkedand concluded they were operating more as a “pop up weekend coffee shop,” and rejected the renewal of their license.Remedee Coffee was set to open for the season last Saturday.
The Escobar sisters have been roasting and selling coffee where their parents, who restored the Victorian house on Bartram, shared cups with neighbors. The cottage food law in New Jersey went into effect in October 2021, making it possible for people to create and sell goods out of their homes, with some restrictions.eliminated the requirement of a commercial kitchen and regular health department inspections for home bakers and food makers to sell their goods.
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