THEIR FANS WERE almost ready to give up, but not the mother-daughter duo Sheila and Toni Young.
Their labor of love — Bumzy’s Chocolate Chip Cookies, at 1460 Fillmore — was shut down by flooding last September and stayed closed for nine long months.
But just in time for Fillmore’s annual Juneteenth Festival, their cheery pink balloons were back on the sidewalk and an entirely new Bumzy’s was baking all-natural, handmade cookies.
“We had to start all over,” says Toni Young. “It was a real nightmare. But we’re back better and stronger than before. Something positive always comes out of something negative.”
Their chocolate chip cookies have been hailed as the best in the neighborhood.
“We make homemade products,” she says. “So we want it to feel like home.”
In addition to a dozen kinds of cookies, made one small batch at a time, they also churn homemade ice cream. And now they’ve added Hawaiian shave ice — snow cones to the locals.
“It’s a happy thing,” says Young. “My mom says people come in as an adult and skip out as a happy kid.”
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