The owners and developers of Pettaway Coffee in Little Rock announced Monday that they have sold the shop to Jennifer Hill Green and Ashanti Parker, the mother-daughter team behind Daisy Pastry Shoppe of Little Rock.
Mike Orndorff, the developer behind Little Rock’s Pettaway Square and owner of Mike Orndorff Construction LLC of Little Rock, opened Pettaway Coffee with his wife, Alex, in June 2023. The 1,125-SF space, at 406 E. 21st St., offers coffee drinks as well as a variety of nonalcoholic beverages, including nonalcoholic beer, wine and mocktails.
The purchase was announced through social media posts by Orndorff and Daisy Pastry Shoppe. Orndorff said in his post that he and his wife “never set out” to own a coffee shop, but that it “landed” in their lap after the pandemic.
Daisy Pastry Shoppe has been the primary baker at Pettaway Coffee for more than a year, and talks of purchasing the shop began a few months ago, according to Orndorff’s post. Parker’s partner, Jacob Smith, is also involved with the sale.
Daisy Pastry Shoppe was founded in October 2022 after Green and Parker attended culinary school. Green had previously worked in the medical field for more than 20 years. The two bake and sell cakes, cookies, bars and breads, both through pre-orders on their website and at various markets and pop-ups.
“It was well worth me backing away from the 9-to-5 to come up with a business with her that she can pass down to her children and further on down,” Green said on the bakery’s website. “That’s really important to me, that family legacy.”
Orndorff said in his post that Pettaway Coffee made “something like” $160,000 in sales in 2023, and that the shop “needs foot traffic” and local support to survive. Pettaway Coffee uses coffee beans from Blue Sail Coffee of Conway.
His post also gave an update on the other businesses in Pettaway Square. Paper Hearts Bookstore has expanded; Vacant Places, a local shoe store, moved to Argenta “to get more space”; Bluewater Barber & Supply opened up another location at 14710 Cantrell Rd.; and Smashed N’ Stacked, a food truck based in Pettaway, is “just waiting on the next phase to move into their brick and mortar spot.”
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