Bruegger's Bagels are giving away free bagels to the public today to celebrate their 30 years working with the Children's Miracle Network Hospitals.  Go to their Facebook page and download the coupon for 3 free bagels.  Please give a donation to the

  Panera Bread will open soon in the Cotswold Mall.  They are taking over the former Blu Basil's space.  Restaurant Traffic stopped by and can report they have completely gutted the place.  This will be the 8th Panera Bread location in Charlotte.  Pa

Polka Dot Bake Shop owners Jennifer Chapman and Michelle Miller recently had their bake shop named the #6 cupcake bakery in America by The Daily Meal.  The cupcakes were judged nationally by presentation, menu and cake to frosting ratio.  Polka Dot which is

That is not an ATM machine.  I was in LA on a recent trip and heard about this 24 hour cupcake vending machine and had to check it out.  Sprinkles Cupcakes launched what is billed as the first cupcake automat.  The machine dispenses freshly baked cupcakes

Smallcakes Cupcakery has a slogan, "Maybe a cupcake will help?"  I personally can't think of a time where a cupcake would not help.  If a cupcake does not help than the terrorists have won.  OK enough.  Smallcakes was recently featured on the Food Network

New Jersey based Gigi's Cupcakes is going to open their first Charlotte location in the Sharon Corners Shopping Center in Southpark.  Cupcakes are hot.   People use them for their wedding cakes now.  Victoria Secrets supermodels eat them after the TV spec

Please help me welcome the newest member of TEAM TRAFFIC, Jamie Sunnycalb. When you are not reading her here, check out her blog Bibliophiled Away I love cupcakes. Perhaps I love cupcakes too much. For example, I'd bake cupcakes in the dorm kitchen to pass o

        You will find six Cafe Carolina & Bakery locations across the Piedmont and I've eaten at the Promenade on Providence store in South Charlotte on numerous occasions. Last week I came across the Greensboro location at the Friendl

When my business partner told me he was leasing space to a 24/7 french bakery in 28th RO in NODA, I was skeptical. That was until I tried the product. Amelie's Charlotte is packed all day, every day. They have grown so quickly that they have acquired more spac

This is a great concept for Elizabeth. With the success of Amelie's in NODA, it is not hard to see why others would want to follow suit. The place is clean, new, and obviously beckons to the street with smells that would tempt the most devoted dieter or gluten