Sure, the confectionery employer with an eye-catching series of dessert boutiques changed into considered one of New Orleans’ post-Katrina achievement testimonies.
Founded in 2006, Sucre presented resourceful pastries, exciting gelato flavors, and sweets, and a unique King Cake with a shimmering glaze that became into regular feature on countrywide TV. Its three shops, on Magazine Street in the Garden District, inside the French Quarter, and within the upscale Lakeview neighborhood, seemed like French patisseries, embellished in a beautiful light. They had been accumulating locations for all people from any background who cherished goodies.
So on Monday, the Crescent City was surprised to hear that Sucre had closed down. An observation on its website reads:
“To Sucre fans and supporters, “It is with deep sadness that we must announce the remaining of SUCRE as of Monday, June 17, 2019. Throughout the years, we have savored every one of you. Your smiles and patronage were priceless. Thank you for your commercial enterprise and your help. Know that the Sucre Family holds you dear. Stay Sweet! “Please Note: Sucre will work diligently to go back a fee for any order that has been placed on our website within the last 72 hours. These orders will not be processed, and all price ranges will be returned to the customer. We thank each of you yet again.”
Sucre’s selection to shut came nearly a year after the confectionery agency changed into inside the news for a sexual harassment scandal regarding its original chef, Tariq Hanna. Hanna resigned from Sucre in August. And in December, the New Orleans Times-Picayune suggested that several girl employees had made sexual harassment complaints approximately Hanna, who became one of the highest-profile figures in the metropolis’s food world. The allegations brought to mind the 2017 sexual harassment scandal involving John Besh, some other famous New Orleans eating place figure who has severed his ties with his enterprise and his foundation.
Besh had not been seen in New Orleans given that then until he joined other chefs closing week to attend a memorial service for Leah Chase, New Orleans’ liked restaurant owner and civil rights suggest. In Sucre’s case, the allegations in opposition to Hanna came after the dessert organization had constructed a nationwide mail-order business, boosted by its King Cake. It supplied grocery shops along with Whole Foods, which stocked its candy bars in its test-out lanes, in addition to its nearby operations. Its lineup featured French-style macarons in seasonal flavors and blackberry lemon, watermelon, and lavender honey, in addition to unique chocolate bars, inclusive of dark chocolate with rose petals and sweet field candies Orleans-style flavors.
