A new venture is warming up bellies from Bend’s east side — and helping neighbors in need while they’re at it. Paul Hegg opened Central Oregon Soup Company at the beginning of November, featuring hot soups, “little dippers” — something of a combo of breadsticks and a sandwich, for dipping into soup — along with pasta salads and drinks. Soup flavors we tried included Chili, Chicken and Wild Rice, Italian Sausage Garbanzo and Spinach, Thai Peanut Curry and more.
Hegg is also introducing a unique pay-it-forward concept, called Help a Neighbor in Need. Pay for a bowl of soup for the Help a Neighbor program (and pay half price for it) and once the business has amassed 5 gallons’ worth of soup, they deliver it to a local hunger relief partner.
“These soups will be very hearty and healthy rotated between different groups in the community supporting hunger relief efforts,” the company describes on its website.
“I have been running restaurants for the past 20ish years, most recently as GM at Sunriver Pub in Sunriver,” Hegg told the Source Weekly. “I have always wanted to start my own place.”
Central Oregon Soup Company is open Monday through Friday 11am to 3pm. Online ordering is available.
This article appears in Source Weekly November 14, 2024.
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