LYNN — From muffins to brioche buns, One Mighty Mill is always testing new products and looking for ways to expand the menu. Now, the café wants to start making and selling pizzas to its customers — but it needs the community’s help.
A one-deck pizza oven costs $20,000. So, One Mighty Mill is working with NuMarket, a crowdfunding company that works with food and beverage businesses, to raise the funds needed to purchase the oven.
When someone donates to the campaign, they get credit to use at the Lynn café, according to the campaign’s description.
“Upgrading the menu and the café’s baking capabilities by making the very best pizza around offers a chance to pull even more folks into the Lynn café to eat healthy stone-milled grains and share in the mill’s communal embrace. And this campaign is another way for us to keep funding in the community and include you, our biggest supporters,” the description said.
The business has been constantly evolving since its inception five years ago. The vision when it first opened was to serve the Lynn community.
“Over the last five years, you have helped us create a resilient 100 percent employee-owned café location that has flourished in downtown Lynn, staffed by employee-owners that are almost all Lynn residents,” the description said. “Now, we want to make the OMM Lynn Café even bigger and badder, and ensure that it can remain financially viable and self-sufficient for the long haul.”
Working at One Mighty Mill has always been a collaborative experience, General Manager Julio Pacas said. When someone brings an idea to the table, they work together to make it happen.
The goal of bringing pizza to One Mighty Mill was no different. The employee-owners of the shop came together and decided that this was a project they wanted to pursue. However, Pacas said the current oven isn’t built for baking pizzas.
“The funding you provide will allow us to get that pizza oven in and get to work on making stone-milled pizza for you,” the description said. “Whatever you contribute to our funding campaign, you’ll get 20 percent more back in credits to use on all of your favorites at the café.”
As of May 17, the campaign has raised more than $15,000.
