Timeline of Yumm!

1987
Mark and Mary Ann Beauchamp move to Eugene, Oregon.

1991
Mary Ann opens her first café, Wild Rose Café & Deli, inside Friendly Market in Eugene.

1993
The business relocates to the 5th St. Public Market in downtown Eugene as Wild Rose Food Company.

Yumm! Bowls® and Yumm! Sauce® begin to develop a following.

1995
Mark and Mary Ann open a juice bar next to Wild Rose. The juice bar concept struggles and an alternative idea is developed to replace the juice bar.

1997
The first Café Yumm!® opens in the former juice bar space.

1998
The Wild Rose lease is renewed under the name Café Yumm!.

The former juice bar space closes.

1999
11/11 – Café Yumm! (The Meridian) opens in Eugene.

2000
For the first time, Yumm! Sauce is produced for retail distribution.

2002
7/26 – Café Yumm! (Oakway Center) opens in Eugene.

2007
Café Yumm! begins franchising (some locations will continue to be company-owned).

7/13 – Café Yumm! (North Delta Center) opens in Eugene.

10/9 – Café Yumm! (On Broadway) opens in Eugene.

11/18 – Café Yumm! (On Gateway) opens in Springfield, OR.

12/16 – Café Yumm! (The Old Mill) opens in Bend, OR.

2008
7/12 – Café Yumm! (On Monroe) opens in Corvallis, OR on the edge of the OSU campus.

2009
2/15 – Café Yumm! (Sacred Heart at RiverBend) opens in Springfield, OR.

3/15 – Café Yumm! (Millikan Pointe) opens in Beaverton, OR.

2010
6/1 – Café Yumm! (PSU Rec Center) opens in Portland, OR on the PSU campus.

2011
Café Yumm! launches the first online Nutrition Calculator in the nation to allow guests to customize their Yumm! Bowls to meet particular dietary and nutritional needs.

5/3 – Café Yumm! (SW 3rd & Morrison) opens in downtown Portland, OR. This is the first restaurant in Oregon that is certified LEED Gold for Retail.

The first solar-powered electric vehicle charging station in the nation opens at Café Yumm! (On Broadway) in Eugene with 172 solar panels and six electric vehicle charging stations.

2013
10/25 – Café Yumm! (7th & Pine) opens in downtown Seattle, WA. This is the first location to open outside of Oregon.

2014
1/2 – Café Yumm! becomes Oregon’s first Benefit Company (tied with 28 other businesses) as acknowledged by then-Secretary of State Kate Brown.

2/3 – Café Yumm! (Candalaria Crossing) opens in Salem, OR. This is the first location to feature a drive-through.

7/7 – Café Yumm! (Argyle Square) opens in Wilsonville, OR. It is the first restaurant designed and built from the ground up to LEED standards by Café Yumm!.

9/22 – Café Yumm! (Meridian Square) opens in Lake Oswego, OR. The location is ideally located to serve three growing Portland Metro communities: Tigard, Tualatin, and Lake Oswego.

2015
1/1 – Café Yumm! (Portland Airport) opens a kiosk on New Year’s Day at Portland International Airport. This is a temporary retail service location to serve travelers while work on the full-service restaurant is underway.

1/12 – Café Yumm! (Neff Place) opens in Bend, OR. This second Café Yumm! in Bend is situated to serve homes and businesses near St. Charles Medical Center.

3/30 – Café Yumm! (Portland Airport) opens the completed restaurant for full service. This location is a perfect solution for travelers who want to buy 1-liter bottles of Yumm! Sauce past the security gate for carry-on.

4/22 – Café Yumm! publishes its first Benefit Report (for 2014) on Earth Day.

6/18 – Café Yumm! (Mill Plain Crossing) opens in Vancouver, WA on SE 192nd. This second Café Yumm! in Washington is situated to serve guests from Southeast Vancouver, Camas, and Washougal.

2016
7/8 – Café Yumm! (NE 7th & Holladay) opens in Portland’s Lloyd District within the newly built Hassalo on Eighth community, a LEED Platinum mixed-use development.

2017
2/3 – Café Yumm! (Cascade Park Plaza) opens in Vancouver, WA offering drive-through and dine-in service at a convenient location for Vancouver/Portland area commuters.

3/8 – Café Yumm! (Happy Valley) opens to serve guests from Happy Valley, Clackamas, Damascus, and Sunnyside.

2018
4/23 – Café Yumm! (Keizer Station) opens in Keizer, OR offering drive-through and dine-in service just off the I-5 freeway at exit 260.

2019
1/29 – Café Yumm! (Lakemoor) opens in Eagle, ID offering drive-through and dine-in service. This is the first Café Yumm! location in the state of Idaho.

3/19 Café Yumm! donated nearly 95,000 pounds of dried Oregon-grown black beans to FOOD for Lane County and the Oregon Food Bank.

2020
9/26 – Café Yumm! (Broadway) closes its doors after 13 years due to the property being purchased by a developer of student housing.

10/6 – Café Yumm! (E 13th) opens in Eugene, just one block from the University of Oregon campus.

2021
2/4/2021 – Café Yumm! opens in downtown Eugene’s latest mixed-use destination, the 5th Street Market Alley – a fun spot for dining, shopping, and travel. This modern downtown Eugene city center location brings Café Yumm! back to where our story began in 1993.

10/2021 – Yummsauce.com is launched to better serve mail order customers around the country who want Yumm! Sauce and other packaged retail products from our restaurants shipped right to their door. The new website also features free recipes and a newsletter sign-up form.

2022

Fun new Cafe Yumm! merch is introduced at yummsauce.com, including t-shirts, hoodies, beanies, stickers, magnets, and packaged organic beans and rice.

2023

11/1/2023 – After 10 years, the franchised location at 7th & Pine in Seattle closed. It has been a pleasure serving downtown Seattle since October of 2013. We hope to return to this area in the future!