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The Sweet Shop is nestled in a quaint neighborhood of North Los Altos and provides a welcoming atmosphere for family and friends to gather and enjoy sweet treats. The shop’s objective is to provide a nice gathering place for the community with a focus on utilizing organic ingredients, eco-friendly supplies and sustainable practices. All proceeds from the shop will support the local Los Altos Schools.
Giving Back Locally
- The Sweet Shop donates all proceeds from the shop’s sales to support the local Los Altos Schools. With continuing budget cuts for our children’s education, we want to ensure our community’s children continue to receive the best education for their futures.
- The Sweet Shop has sourced and continues to locate as many local products as possible. Our coffee is roasted in Santa Cruz, most of our chocolates are from San Francisco, our baked goods are from Los Altos and San Mateo, our milk products are from Petaluma and our candy is delivered to us from So. San Francisco.
Eco-Friendly
- All of our disposable cups, plates, napkins, straws, candy bags
and spoons are biodegradable and/or compostable made with either
potato, sugar or corn.
- Coffee grounds from our shop are free to our customers to use in their own gardens or in their own compost bins. We even use some of the grounds for our acid loving plants in the courtyard garden.
Sustainable Practices & Design
Our shop was designed to utilize as little negative impact as possible on the local community and environment. Our mission is to meet our customer needs while, at the same time, respecting our environment. Following are some of the practices used in the design of the Sweet Shop:
- Our parking area is constructed with permeable concrete which will absorb rainwater from the building roof and paving, as well as oils from the autos. This will prevent run off onto the street and eventually into our creeks and the bay, minimizing silt and pollutants into the bay. All other storm water drainage is piped to drywells on our site, this minimizes off site run off.
- Our roof has solar panels to generate much of our electricity and eliminate our impact on the environment.
- Our two operable skylights were installed to rely on natural lighting and ventilation as much as much as possible. Fluorescent ambient lighting is used throughout the shop.
- Our water is purified by Source One for all of our appliances; our customers can be assured of the cleanest water possible in all products.
- Our customer’s bathroom includes a Toto's leading edge low water EMAX flushing toilet, again conserving water. An Electrical Hand Dryer was installed to eliminate paper waste.
 The wall and floor tile are made of recycled materials and naturally renewable materials made primarily from silica sand, an abundant natural resource. - Our landscaped garden includes mostly drought resistant plants. The landscape irrigation system is a combination drip and low volume spray heads and the entire system is also equipped with ground moisture sensors that will allow the system to apply water only when the soil is dry and plants are in need of irrigation.
- Our beautiful court fountain provides the appearance of "natural pond" with sculptural frogs, birds and a hippopotamus to convey a message to children that nature is to be appreciated. We hope this sparks a subconscious interest from our younger generation to learn more about the more natural world.
- Our candy jars are made of glass to ensure non toxicity to the raw candy. The jar lids are handmade locally.
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