Kitchen Cupboard – Retirement Closing
Thank You to our Customers
It has been an incredible adventure and privilege being the owner, keeper really, of the Gilman Village institution that is Kitchen Cupboard.
It was always my intention to maintain Kitchen Cupboard in a way that would honor the vision of Vivian when she started it. I have enjoyed every minute of maintaining that legacy.
Our incredible customers supported us through the Great Recession and helped us thrive to the present day. I’ve been privileged to learn so much from our regulars here, and those regulars come from everywhere! It’s not many small-town, independent stores that can boast of regular customers from places as far abroad as Germany, New Zealand, and beyond. But Kitchen Cupboard was always something special. It was more than just a store, it was a community, and I am so grateful to have been the steward of that community.
It is impossible to say goodbye to all of you personally, in part because there were so many people that made Kitchen Cupboard the rare small business success story that it was, but it’s been a pleasure to become friends with so many of you.
Thank you to all those special customers for enriching my life, and for supporting the small point of connection between people that Kitchen Cupboard has been for decades. You are all in my heart, and always will be.
-Rhonda Cross