Former pro wrestler bites into bakery business with Sarasota store

Eric Koenreich seeks to find sustainable success in hyper-competitive industry: cookies.

  • By Mark Gordon
  • | 5:00 a.m. May 28, 2022
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Mark Wemple. Eric Koenreich opened Kookies & Kream, a cookie store filled with 1990s memorabilia and nostalgia, in Sarasota in June 2021. Â Â
Mark Wemple. Eric Koenreich opened Kookies & Kream, a cookie store filled with 1990s memorabilia and nostalgia, in Sarasota in June 2021. Â Â
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Don’t be fooled by the X-Men T shirt, the sleeves of colorful tattoos on each arm, the "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" VHS tapes and the Britney Spears posters.

 

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