bebee & Brianna Sanchez started Candy Grape SLC in 2022 — from California & Utah with an entrepreneurial spark and no interest in waiting for someone to hand them a seat at the table. Both of our families run their own businesses, but we didn't see much from that, so we set out to build something that was truly ours. The first grapes we ever made came together on April 21, 2022, and by May 18 we posted our first real drop on Instagram. That Sunday we packed a small cooler, wrote up a sign by hand, and set up at Liberty Park's drum circle — we sold out in a few hours, same pricing then as it is now. Those first conversations at the park turned into our first few hundred followers, built completely from scratch.

We kept showing up to Liberty Park almost every Sunday, and the crowd kept growing until people were messaging us mid-week just to ask if we'd be there that weekend. Eventually demand outgrew what we could manage from a cooler in the park, so we moved operations home and started offering pickup and delivery instead. We started this completely on our own — no bank loans, no funding — just the two of us figuring it out together for over a decade now. The goal is a real storefront one day, maybe a food truck too, so we can bring Candy Grape SLC to families all across Utah.