Lolly and Cooks

What Lolly and Cooks does

Lolly and Cooks is a privately held, family-run artisan bakery and café business founded in Dublin in 2008 and operating under the legal entity name Lolly and Cooks CPU limited. The company produces its full range of savouries, cakes, desserts, signature salads, gourmet soups, and ready-to-go meals from a central bakery in Dublin City, using ingredients sourced primarily from the founding family's farm in Tipperary and supplemented by long-standing relationships with Irish artisan producers. Its signature product, the 'Savage Roll', launched at founding, has cultivated a self-described cult following of Dublin consumers and functions as the brand anchor.

The company sells directly to consumers through two company-owned café locations in Dublin — Herbert Park (Ballsbridge, Dublin 4) and Grand Canal Dock at The Marker, Forbes Street (Dublin 2) — supplemented by online ordering for customer pickup routed through the third-party clickandcollection.com platform. There is no disclosed pricing model, no technology platform beyond the marketing website and pickup ordering page, and no app, API, or wholesale distribution. The customer base is general Dublin food consumers seeking fresh, locally sourced artisan food and coffee, and the business model is straightforward retail transaction revenue per visit.

The firm has approximately 15 employees and remains founder/family-controlled with no external institutional investors, no funding rounds disclosed, no M&A activity, no partnerships, and no patents or trademarks on record. The operating geography is exclusively the Republic of Ireland, with all revenue derived from the two Dublin café locations and associated pickup orders.

Name

Lolly and Cooks

Legal name

Lolly and Cooks CPU limited

Website

https://lollyandcooks.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2008

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Lolly and Cooks is a family-run artisan bakery and café business founded in Dublin in 2008, producing the cult-favourite Savage Roll and a broader menu of savouries, salads, soups, cakes, and ready-to-go meals at its central Dublin City bakery, sold directly to consumers through two Dublin café locations and an online pickup channel.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Specialty Bakery and Cafe

NAICS

Baked Goods Retailers (445291), Limited-Service Restaurants (722513), Retail Bakeries (311811)

SIC

Retail-Eating Places (5812), Bakery Products (2050)

akta.pro primary industry

Cafe-Bakeries (Bakery + Coffee/Foodservice) (THAFAFAG)

akta.pro secondary industries

Retail Bakeries (Bread & Daily Bakery) (THAFAFAA), Artisan & Specialty Bakeries (Sourdough, Heritage Grains) (THAFAFAD)

Keywords

• Artisan bakery products
• Specialty coffee cafe
• Fresh savouries and cakes
• Ready-to-go family meals
• Family-run cafe

Headquarters

HQ city

Dublin 4

HQ country

Ireland

HQ region

Europe

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Supply Chain, Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Cafe Retail Sales: Direct retail sales of freshly prepared artisan savouries, cakes, and coffee at company-owned cafe locations. Customers purchase in-person at Herbert Park and Grand Canal Dock cafes.
2. Online Order Pickup: Online ordering through clickandcollection.com platform for customer pickup orders, enabling advance ordering for in-cafe collection.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

Lolly and Cooks is a family-run artisan bakery and cafe that produces fresh savouries, cakes, signature salads, gourmet soups, and ready-to-go meals from its central bakery in Dublin City. These products are sold directly to consumers at two company-owned cafes in Dublin (Herbert Park in Ballsbridge and Grand Canal Dock) alongside coffee. Ingredients are primarily sourced from the founding family's farm in Tipperary and from local Irish artisan producers.

Product overview

Lolly and Cooks is a family-run artisan food business operating as a single unified offering of freshly prepared bakery products sold through their café locations. The core product portfolio includes the cult-favourite Savage Roll, signature salads, gourmet soups, cakes and desserts, and a newer ready-to-go meals range. All products are produced in their Dublin City bakery using ingredients primarily sourced from their family farm in Tipperary, supplemented by local Irish producers. The company operates two café locations (Herbert Park and Grand Canal Dock) where customers can purchase these products.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Savage Roll
• Signature Salads
• Gourmet Soups
• Cakes and Desserts
• Ready-to-Go Family Meals
• Artisan Food and Coffee Cafe Service

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Broad incumbents

• Avoca: Established Irish food retailer and cafe operator with multiple locations and a strong artisan-food brand; comparable as a larger incumbent in the Irish artisan cafe and prepared-food space where Lolly and Cooks competes.
• Insomnia Coffee: Ireland's largest specialist coffee chain with food and bakery pairings across hundreds of locations; comparable as a scaled coffee-cafe competitor occupying similar morning and commuter occasions to Lolly and Cooks.
• Butlers Chocolate Café: Ireland-originated cafe chain pairing coffee and chocolate with baked goods and light meals at scale; comparable as a broader foodservice-cafe competitor overlapping Lolly and Cooks' cafe customer base across Ireland.
• Applegreen: Large Irish roadside and motorway foodservice retailer with bakery and coffee offerings; comparable as a broader Irish incumbent in grab-and-go baked goods and coffee that sets competitive baseline pricing.

Direct peers

• Bread 41: Dublin-based artisan sourdough bakery and cafe known for its own cult following on bakery products, operating a small number of locations in premium Dublin catchments — directly comparable in product, customer base, and unit economics to Lolly and Cooks.
• Butler's Pantry: Dublin-based cafe and bakery business producing artisan breads, savouries and cakes for retail and foodservice — closely comparable to Lolly and Cooks in menu, customer demographic, and Dublin footprint.
• Kaph: Dublin specialty coffee and brunch cafe with strong artisan credentials and a similar premium-customer positioning; directly comparable in cafe format and target demographic within Dublin.
• The Cake Cafe: Small Dublin cafe specialising in cakes, baked goods and coffee; directly comparable as a competing boutique bakery-cafe targeting the same premium Dublin customer base.
• The Bretzel Bakery: Long-established Dublin artisan bakery and cafe chain producing breads, savouries, pastries and cakes for retail and wholesale — a direct competitor in the artisan bakery-cafe category with overlapping product mix and customer base.

Regional players

• Café Sol: Dublin-located independent cafe group with an artisan food offering; comparable as a regional cafe competitor that overlaps with Lolly and Cooks' core menu and customer demographic within Dublin.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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