It’s the people and sense of community that is represented at the store. What I like about ours is the thick, soft serve consistency and it’s just like fresh and consistent every time.”Īnd it’s more than just the actual acai that makes Lolo’s Bowls unique. “I think Lolo’s is different than the ones that are from around here because it’s like the soft serve consistency,” Lauren said. Justin Fields posing with an acai bowl and a signed football. Milwaukee Ave is Lolo’s Bowls – “the best acai bowl place in the country,” according to Fields. Now, cemented in the corner of the Cambridge Plaza on 854 S. We were actually his first licensee.”Īnd the idea for the name came from Marquone Edmonds, the head trainer at Orangetheory Fitness in Lake Forest, where Lauren used to work. “Turned out he had several places, but he is the manufacturer of the acai. “We talked to the guy, Todd, that was running that shop,” Brian said. To get an idea of how to run their first business, the Schick family received some guidance from an acai bowl shop in Arizona called “Berry Divine Acai Bowls.” The family discovered the business while they were dropping off Jenny at college. “I was like, ‘well, let’s just do it ourselves.’” “We would come back, me and my family, and there was nowhere really around here to get an acai bowl,” Lauren said. On one of the earlier trips, the family discovered acai bowls. Lauren got the idea to open up an acai bowl place of her own after coming back from a vacation to Hawaii – a trip the family had been making for the last 10 to 12 years. Bears quarterback Justin Fields’ custom bowl and former Bears cornerback Thomas Graham’s custom bowl at Lolo’s Bowls. Now, customers can actually order their own “Fields#1” bowl. I forgot who told me about it initially, but after I went there once, I literally go there, especially in the offseason, at least five times a week.”Īnd, of course, Lauren and the rest of the staff know Fields’ go-to order: A Lolo’s Bowl - which contains an “acai base topped with strawberries, bananas, honey and granola,” but also topped with cacao nibs, coconut shreds and that granola butter. “It’s their granola butter,” Fields said. For Fields, who does follow a vegan diet, Lolo’s Bowls provides plenty of options that cater to his diet, but he also kept coming back because of one ingredient. “Then it was literally every day.”Ī post shared by Lolo’s Bowls Bears’ franchise quarterback had soon become Lolo’s Bowls No. “We thought it was going to be like a one-time thing, but then he (Fields) was coming back every few days,” Lauren said. stopped in to Lolo’s Bowls for the first time that Sunday and sat on the bench to eat their bowls.īrian was of course surprised and so was Lauren. Fields and former Bears cornerback Thomas Graham Jr. The name on that ticket was Justin Fields. Lauren texted her dad a picture of a customer’s ticket. Then all of a sudden, on my phone I get a text.” “So I’m at my draft here, locally, a bunch of guys and we’re drafting. I have a fantasy football draft,’” Brian said. On that Sunday last summer, Brian had a fantasy football draft and had to leave work early. Since Lolo’s Bowls has opened, there have also been employees outside of the family who have been hired. A post shared by Lolo’s Bowls father, Brian, grew up listening to Bears games on the radio in the 1970s and vividly remembers watching Walter Payton play.Īfter retiring from United Airlines, he decided to join the new family business, which consists of his wife Darlene (Dolly), his youngest daughter Jennifer (Jenny) and Jenny’s boyfriend Jake.
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