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MERCED, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A pistillate calved and raised successful Merced made a "fluke" into an evergrowing business.
Dominique Pruitt owns Dom's Bomb Gourmet Popcorn, a concern that sells gourmet popcorn and is made from locally sourced ingredients.
She archetypal started her concern 4 years agone erstwhile her begetter brought her a fabric candy machine.
Pruitt says she didn't person things to marque fabric candy, truthful she improvised utilizing what she had disposable to her - kernels, and 1 happening led to another. She started looking astatine antithetic recipes and experimenting successful her kitchen.
"I deliberation it's the creativity of being capable to travel up with antithetic flavors. I privation my ngo to deliberation extracurricular of the container of popcorn," Pruitt said.
She says she wants radical to measurement extracurricular of their comfortableness zones and person flavors of foods that they love, successful popcorn, but inactive person it sensation delicious. According to her website, she has flavors similar banana pudding, cookies and cream, day barroom and galore more.
When it comes to popcorn making, she says it is similar a canvas and however she tin "take thing retired of nothing."
Pruitt says erstwhile she archetypal started her business, she was primitively moving for the county. Within an hr and a fractional of being astatine her archetypal farmers' market, she sold out. She past thought to herself that she had thing going on, and the remainder is history.
"I prayed connected it. I was like, if this is what God wants maine to do, past I'm going to bash it. And, I did it," she said.
After years of farmers markets, pop-ups, and festivals, Pruit volition beryllium opening a kiosk; her archetypal imperishable determination successful the metropolis wherever she was calved and raised.
"I request a spot wherever radical tin find maine alternatively of ever looking for me. Because I get a batch of radical saying, 'Oh, I'm looking astatine your Instagram trying to fig retired wherever you are next,'" Pruitt said.
Talking astir her kiosk astatine the Marketplace successful Merced made Pruitt emotional. She says the feedback she received from the assemblage made her privation to cry.
"It made maine recognize that I'm doing the close thing... When I started telling my customers, erstwhile I started doing events and posted those online. I got truthful overmuch bully feedback," Pruitt said. "They're like, 'We'll beryllium astatine your expansive opening, fto america know. We're truthful happy, present we person a spot to get popcorn 24-seven.'"
Pruitt says this kiosk is conscionable a stepping chromatic into her evergrowing concern and yet wants to unfastened much kiosks astatine antithetic malls. Eventually, she'd similar to get a declaration with a sports arena and person her popcorn sold there, but for now, she conscionable wants to bring her flavors to others.
To observe the opening of the kiosk, Pruitt volition beryllium having a bargain one, get 1 fractional disconnected connection connected the archetypal 2 days of its opening.
The expansive opening for Dom's Bomb Gourment Popcorn with beryllium connected May 1 astatine noon astatine the Marketplace astatine Merced, located astatine 851 W. Olive Ave.
