About Us

Heather and I started our very first 'Food" business back in 1998. She was working retail and I was working at Costco, going to school at BSU plus working an evening job delivering pizza. We had our first child coming soon and wanted Heather to be able to stay home vs. child care. We visited the "Art in the Park" in Julia Davis Park and saw a kettle corn vendor from out of state with HUGE lines. We maxed out our credit card and purchased our first kettle corn set up, Boise's Best Kettle Korn.

We set up for the first time in the Spring of 1998 at the Capitol City Public Market. This was before the days of the "Ez Up" tents, at least for us, we had a "put the frame together yourself" and "heaviest canvas walls and roof known to man" tent. But, we were amazed at how much kettle corn we sold the first day and were hooked from that day on. Soon the business grew, we started doing additional events on the weekends like the BSU football games, Eagle Fun Days and even Art in the Park. At the same time I started my Real Estate career with Corey Barton Homes plus was still working full time for Costco Wholesale which I had had since 1988.

Real estate took off about this time so we needed to make a decision, keep doing real estate or sell the concession business...we regretfully, sold the concession business.

Real Estate...well we all know what happened to those Booming Years and almost 490 home sales later, the end was near. I was burned out on home sales, working all hours of the day and we missed the adventure that the concession business offered.

We contacted Karen down at the Capitol City Public Market, now a family friend from all the years we had worked so closely with her. We knew that the kettle corn vendor was still there so we picked her brain on what food item she might be interested in us selling down there? Crepes was the reply...

Heather had taken some French classes at Meridian High and become such good friends with her teacher, who had studied in France, that she shared her authentic Crepe recipe with her. Heather had been making crepes for us at home each Sunday morning and we always looked forward to them each week.

We found a used push cart in Florida, bought some additional equipment and started a new chapter in our concession sales business right back where it all started...at the Market.

Wow how the market had changed! It has almost 250 vendors during the Summer and Boise turns out. We now have 3 cooks and 2 cashier and still have problems keeping up at the market. Many of you started asking, "when are you going to open a shop so we can buy crepes during the week too?"

We saved our money all Summer long in 2010, not spending a dime on anything but the necessities. After much thought, prayer and a TON of elbow grease, we opened, "The Creperie" December 8th, 2010. We're constantly trying to be better. Better crepe ideas, recipes, faster service, etc...Our menu board will soon be so full, we'll need two.

Come by and see us soon...we look forward to meeting you, becoming good friends and sharing our love of Crepes with you.