Mike & Jennifer Dollander/Alumni Cookie Dough
Childhood fantasies become a reality at Alumni Cookie Dough, Athens’ first Cookie Dough Café! The first location opened in January 2019 in downtown Athens at 480 North Thomas Street. This Georgia-Bulldog-loving establishment is promised to satisfy all of your sweet dreams. That’s right, you can now enjoy delicious cookie dough by the scoop and no longer worry about the possibility of getting sick. All of the ingredients are of the highest quality and 100% safe to eat raw. However, if you are somehow not able to finish your serving of cookie dough, you can take it home and bake cookies! I mean, how perfect can this possibly get?
There are also options to make a sundae, or their unique “Dream Crème (cookie dough infused ice cream) with your favorite cookie dough and ice cream, cookie dough milkshakes, and of course melt-in-your-mouth cookie dough pretzel bites, and snickerdoodle bites.
Alumni Cookie Dough is the creation of Mike and Jennifer Dollander. Jennifer had always been a closet cookie dough eater, so the idea of actually being able to safely consume this creamy concoction in public is a dream come true! Mike and Jennifer are both graduates of The University of Georgia, so the idea of opening a business in the city they love so much is beyond exciting.
With the success of the Athens location, franchising was finalized a couple weeks before Covid. Since then, they have sold four locations. East Cobb, Milton, Acworth and Augusta. The wholesale division has exploded with over 100 accounts. Be on the lookout for Alumni Cookie Dough cafés opening up near you!
Life’s short… eat the dough!
