If you're a coffee shop, café, or hotel buyer and "vegan" isn't a priority for your menu, think again.
It's Not About Being Vegan — It's About Who It Doesn't Exclude
A traditional butter croissant automatically rules out three groups of customers before they even see the menu: vegans, anyone avoiding dairy (lactose intolerance is common), and anyone avoiding eggs. A well-made vegan croissant removes all three restrictions at once — without the buyer needing to stock a separate "special" pastry or mark anything as a substitute.
That's a practical advantage for a café or hotel breakfast program: one product, made without eggs, dairy, or soy, that a wider range of customers can order without asking questions or making special requests.
The Quality Bar Has to Come First
None of that matters if the croissant doesn't hold up on its own. The reason vegan croissants have gained traction with buyers who have no vegan customers at all is that the good ones are simply excellent croissants — flaky, laminated, properly baked — that happen to be free of animal products, not the other way around.
Curious Cat Bakery was named one of the top 5 places for vegan croissants in the US by VegNews — a recognition based on the product itself, not a novelty or dietary category. Several of our wholesale partners don't market the croissants as vegan at all; they simply sell them as croissants, because that's how customers experience them.
What This Means for a Buyer
For a coffee shop or hotel deciding what to put in the pastry case, the practical upside is:
Broader customer coverage from a single SKU, without stocking a separate allergen-friendly item
Simpler operations — no need to flag, substitute, or explain a special dietary version
No compromise on quality — the product needs to earn its place on quality alone, and does
The "vegan" label ends up being a bonus feature for the customers who need it, not the reason everyone else buys it.
The Bottom Line
You don't need a vegan menu, or vegan customers, to benefit from stocking a genuinely well-made vegan croissant. You need a croissant that performs — and one that happens to be accessible to a wider range of customers without any extra work on your end.
Curious Cat Bakery supplies egg-free, dairy-free, and soy-free croissants to coffee shops, cafés, restaurants, and hotels across Tampa Bay and Orlando, Florida.