About Duidough

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My name is David Vanlochem, and I started Duidough in 2015.  Since then, we have taken on many adaptations due to the everchanging landscape of the food industry.  I started as a wholesale bakery for the first three years of our existence.  Once the opportunity to open a café arose, we pounced at the opportunity to expand production and carve out our own little corner of the hustling bustling Hollywood, CA.  With our almost perfect reviews on yelp, I can confidently say that we left our mark!  It was a great honor and pleasure to serve my hometown community of Hollywood for the 3 years that we did.

Unfortunately, our business model wasn’t anticipating COVID-19.  The pandemic decimated our regular customers That commuted to Hollywood for work. In November of 2020 we had to shut the doors to our retail business in addition to our wholesale accounts which remained on lockdown, leaving Duidough to sit dormant for a full calendar year.  It was a tough year for all of us, but it did help put in perspective what we still loved to do and was at the core of our business from the beginning, coOoOoOoOoOokies!

Since August of this tumultuous 2021, we have been baking out of our new kitchen location in DTLA and we are just as passionate and committed to our cookie making process as ever!  We do everything by hand, barely using even our manual hand tools like whisks and spatulas because we prefer to get our (gloved) hands full o’ dough, stimulate our core and put our backs into the process of making our high quality, perfectly incorporated cookie dough. 

We wanted to bring back the option to offer our retail products at a limited capacity for curbside-pickup in DTLA or in Toluca Lake M-F.  Please check the order page for further instructions on availability, hours and pick-up instructions.  We are so grateful that our customers have continued to check in and we owe it all to you!

Sincerely,

David and the whole Duidough team.