KickTraq

Whew, 8 days to go! The past few weeks just flew by. We have far surpassed our initial goal and are just 6k short of our dream combi oven stretch goal so in our last few days please keep spreading the word!  Three big news for you: 1. Eater SF... (Read More)

It took about 25 hours for Marie Chia and Shane Stanbridge to well and truly realize that their plan to open a permanent location for their popular vegan pop-up, Lion Dance Cafe, might actually work. Sure, they’d been selling out for years, attracting long lines and rave reviews when they’d appear at venues around Oakland, then named S+M Vegan. But the decision to open their own place, in the midst of a pandemic and when everyone’s money seems tighter than ever, is “a risk,” Stanbridge says, even with a shaobing sandwich that’s been selling out within minutes on pre-order. They closed their eyes and took that leap, anyway, launching a Kickstarter in hopes of generating the final $50,000 they needed to get up and running in the new space. (Read More)

Thanks to you all we've already reached 65k. Now we're 10k and 16 days away from our dream combi oven... with your help spreading the word we can get to there! Freshly baked shaobing and steamed dumplings await. Meanwhile we've been scrubbing every... (Read More)

Fully funded in 25 hours!!! You all really came through. We had NO idea we'd get to 50k this fast. We launched a 30-day campaign thinking we'd need every minute to raise the bare minimum we needed to open. It turns out that we still have 27 days to... (Read More)

First off a huge THANK YOU. It’s now been 24 hours since we launched our Kickstarter and we’ve already reached 92% of our goal. We kept refreshing our campaign dashboard yesterday and couldn’t believe our eyes, we’re completely blown away by... (Read More)

We launched 3 hours ago and are already 30% of the way to our goal! Thank you!!! We read that the success of a campaign can be determined by whether or not they are mostly funded within the first couple days, and thanks to you all we are well on our... (Read More)