It could be a blended bag — with excellent news and unhealthy information — for Highland Park, however Kari Guhl mentioned it’s the precise information for Sally’s Nuts.

The mother-daughter enterprise is transferring throughout city and out of the retail enterprise, at the very least for now. Sally’s Nuts plans to go away 481 Roger Williams Ave. within the Ravinia enterprise district by mid April and settle right into a business location at 1480 Outdated Deerfield Street, mentioned Guhl, who co-owns Sally’s Nuts along with her mom Sally Schoch, of Wilmette.

“It’s bittersweet for certain,” Guhl mentioned. “It was a transparent determination however that didn’t make it any simpler. Talking from it emotionally, all of us sit right here sniffling a bit (as a result of) we’re not going to see our regulars. It’s the proper factor to do however man have we made roots right here.”

Guhl and Schoch introduced Sally’s Nuts to a Highland Park storefront in 2021 after spending 4 years as a web based firm.

The Highland Park store opened in 2021 and bought Sally’s Nuts and numerous different snacks and treats.

Throughout the pandemic, Guhl wished to get Sally’s Nuts out of a shared business kitchen, they usually discovered an out there storefront at 481 Williams Ave., the previous dwelling of Shelton’s Ravinia Grill, a Highland Park establishment from the Forties till the Nineteen Nineties.

Shelton’s served diner classics — burgers, scorching canines, pot roast and extra — to generations of native diners, from latchkey children to oldsters searching for easy dinner out. It was even the setting for a scene from the 1983 movie “Dangerous Enterprise.”

Previous to Sally’s Nuts, the house was occupied by espresso store and wine bar Hub and Spoke Provisions. It would quickly want a brand new tenant, and Guhl, who bought Sally’s Nuts merchandise in addition to sandwiches and extra from the house, hopes to assist discover one.

“We are going to do as a lot as we will presumably do,” Guhl mentioned, including the world wants a sandwich store. “We really feel obligated. Additionally, Shelton’s has such nice lore to it. All people within the neighborhood has a narrative about Shelton’s. … It was an excellent iconic place.”

With Sally’s Nuts transfer throughout city, the enterprise will return to its “true function” of wholesale, partnering with grocers and different retailers to promote Sally’s Nuts.

Guhl mentioned that aspect of the enterprise has continued to develop, and she or he wants more room to accommodate present and future development. Presently, Guhl acts because the distributor, driving orders to shops throughout the world.

Schoch, who’s going on 89 years outdated, continues to work a number of days per week, and Guhl mentioned the change is just not solely the precise transfer for the corporate but additionally for her mom, whose motto has change into “simply preserve transferring.”

“Realistically and emotionally, I couldn’t in good religion signal one other (long-term) lease realizing in 5 years she can be 94,” Guhl mentioned. “The enterprise itself goes to proceed to develop in the way in which she actually wished: to see her merchandise on extra grocery-store cabinets.

“Having her have someplace to go and one thing to do has actually helped her stick with it and preserve energetic.”

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