Famous Amos cookies founder Wally Amos dead at 88

” I began to bake as a hobby; it was a sort of treatment,” Amos told Times in 1975. “I would certainly most likely to meetings with record firms or movie people and bring along some cookies, and quite soon everybody was requesting for them.”

Amos turned his leisure activity of cooking bite-sized cookies while functioning as a talent scout for the celebrities into the hugely effective brand in 1975 when he opened his Famous Amos cookie store on Sunset Boulevard with a $25,000 loan from the similarity Marvin Gaye and various other Hollywood pals.

Amos’ shop made $300,000 in earnings in its very first year and came to be a $12 million business by 1981, as dozens of new locations opened up and his cookies were packaged and sold at merchants throughout the country, according to Background.

He returned to cookie-making and released numerous various other brand names throughout his lifetime and also opened a small bakery in Honolulu, which had a different collection of children’s publications where he would review to community youngsters for hours every Saturday, the paper reported.

His cookies were a hit, and he decided to make his pastime his profession with the opening of his Sunset Boulevard pastry shop which quickly attracted attention among stores offering cookies loaded with included preservatives and synthetic ingredients.