Dessert news

Dessert shop coming to Richardson is all about cobblers and pudding

Peach cobbler with vanilla ice cream from Peach Cobbler Factory.

Peach Cobbler Factory

A new dessert shop is coming to Richardson with a decadently delicious focus: Called The Peach Cobbler Factory, it'll specialize in homey desserts, particularly cobbler and banana pudding.

The shop is part of a chain based in North Carolina and will open in a former Tiff's Treats at 720 E. Campbell Rd.

The concept started out as a food truck in Nashville in 2013, before growing to a small chain that began franchising in 2022. The first location in Texas opened in Arlington in February; Richardson is the second, and is from Tanner Spring, a 28-year-old entrepreneur who is opening his first restaurant.

“It's going to be a fun, warm, inviting experience, a new take on those Southern classics," Spring says. "You can find frozen yogurt and cookies on every corner, but there's nobody in the market other than fine dining who really does cobblers or puddings."

Cobber is the centerpiece of the menu, served warm with ice cream, in 12 flavors including peach, strawberry peach, blackberry peach, and cinnamon praline peach. Non-peach flavors include cherry, caramel-apple, honey-apple, apple-walnut-raisin, and sweet potato-pecan.

They also offer 12 varieties of banana pudding with additions like Nutella, Oreo cookies, and Butterfingers. Red velvet banana pudding features red velvet cake with cream cheese icing layered into the banana pudding. Similarly, cheesecake banana pudding layers in New York-style cheesecake with graham-cracker crust. Prices average about $9.

For those who can't decide, they offer dessert flights that let you mix-and-match four flavors. You can choose either from the cobbler category, banana pudding, or both. (They'll have dining-in with about 12-15 seats plus more seating on a small outdoor patio.)

There are oversized snickerdoodle cookies, as big as pizza, topped with cobbler; and oversized brownies in flavors such as salted caramel and peanut butter-and-jelly. Other decadent desserts include cinnamon rolls, cobbler-stuffed cinnamon rolls, churros, and milkshakes.

Spring hopes to open shop Richardson around Thanksgiving, in time for holiday gatherings. "It’d just be a new twist on everybody's holiday season," he says.

"I think it's a genius idea," he says. "We live in the land of smoked meats and barbecues and cookouts and tailgating, and what better than some cobbler and pudding and cookies and cinnamon rolls."

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Madelyn Edwards contributed to this story.

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Supermarket News

Texas supermarket chain H-E-B to open its first location in Carrollton

H-E-B

New H-E-B supermarket grocery store in Allen.

The city of Carrollton will welcome its first location of the massively popular H-E-B supermarket chain. According to a release, the store got a thumbs up from the Carrollton City Council at a meeting on January 6, when they approved an ordinance to rezone the land at the northeast corner of Parker Road and Josey Lane, in order to make way for the grocery giant.

The zoning amendment accommodates a 120,000-square-foot store with gas station, car wash, restaurant, and pharmacy — with the latter two offering drive-thru services.

Other features will include covered grocery pick-up and more than 600 parking spaces, along with bakery, seafood counter, meat market, floral section, housewares, produce, and seasonal plants.

Carrollton’s Planning and Zoning Commission held a public hearing on November 24, 2025, and made a recommendation to approve the ordinance to rezone the tract to allow for not only retail space, but the onsite gas station and car wash, as well. A traffic impact analysis was also submitted, reviewed, and approved by Carrollton’s Transportation Engineering Division.

In a statement, Carrollton Mayor Steve Babick says they are all so very proud.

"This venture is the culmination of years of hard work across the region by several actors and shines a light on Carrollton as our community continues to set itself apart as an example of investment and development opportunity," Babick says.

H-E-B director of public affairs Mabrie Jackson says they are "excited to bring a new store to Carrollton and surrounding cities."

"While no construction timeline has been finalized, we look forward to sharing more details later this year," Jackson says.

Intriguing that she felt compelled to mention the "surrounding cities." In case you don't have Google maps in front of you, cities surrounding Carrollton include Addison, Farmers Branch, Lewisville, and The Colony.

H-E-B opened its first DFW-area store in Frisco in 2022, and has since opened locations in Plano, Frisco, Allen, McKinney, Melissa, Rockwall, and Prosper, plus two in Tarrant County: Fort Worth/Alliance, and Mansfield.

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