{"id":485268,"date":"2026-10-05T00:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T00:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/485268\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T00:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T00:30:09","slug":"local-dessert-shop-dads-cookies-celebrates-downtown-fresno-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/485268\/","title":{"rendered":"Local dessert shop Dad&#8217;s Cookies celebrates downtown Fresno expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KFSN logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1791160209_843_origin-kfsn.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Sunday, October 4, 2026 11:50PM<\/p>\n<p>Local dessert shop Dad&#8217;s Cookies celebrated its grand opening of its downtown Fresno location on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; A local dessert shop has expanded to Downtown Fresno.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Dad&#8217;s Cookies celebrated its grand opening on Fulton Street on Saturday. People were invited to join the festivities at its location in the Garage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The father and daughter duo started the business during the pandemic in 2020. The founder, Lance Sanchez, was laid off and started the tasty new venture that&#8217;s turned into a success.\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">He says it&#8217;s amazing to be able to expand the business in the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;Being from Fresno, it&#8217;s neat to see the growth of downtown starting to get a lot of people,&#8221; Sanchez said. &#8220;That&#8217;s why Dad&#8217;s Cookies is here, we want to make it a kid-friendly environment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Dad&#8217;s Cookies also offers coffee and other treats. The store will be open Tuesday through Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KFSN-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sunday, October 4, 2026 11:50PM Local dessert shop Dad&#8217;s Cookies celebrated its grand opening of its downtown Fresno&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":485269,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[189731,112,114,113,189730,294],"class_list":["post-485268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-189731","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-local-desert-shop-dads-cookies-celebrates-downtown-fresno-expansion","tag-timely"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}