TYLER, Texas — An apple a day can keep a doctor away but it couldn't keep the customers from standing in line to get a special treat from The Apple Gal.
From the traditional caramel apples to oreo covered apples, the Apple Gal specializes in selling these delicious treats. And the East Texas community is eating them up!
But owner Morgan Francis said this road to success was not an easy one.
"I'm a serial entrepreneur, I was constantly chasing idead that I had," Francis said. "I saw my apples from a memory on Facebook, to thinking I'm going to try to see these."
The early stages of Gal began after Francis put her children to bed at night.
"My process at home, it would be putting the kids to bed at eight o'clock and be dipping apples from 8 p.m. to about 1 a.m.," Francis said.
Today, Francis has staff members she calls family that dips triple the number of apples she made at home.
"What we use to do in a week, sometimes two weeks we do in one day now," Francis said. "It's a large volume and the selling out is something I'm trying to figure out because I keep making more and we keep selling more."
Since opening a week ago, Francis says this store is only opened for three days a week and each day they continue to sell out.
"I'm shocked genuinely every time because I'm thinking okay, they're gonna be over it eventually. And then it hasn't happened quite yet. There was a line and it means the world and I don't think I get use to it," Francis said.
Francis said she is not sharing all her candy apples secrets but she confirms they are 100 percent green apples only!
"I have perfected the caramel to match the apple and the chocolate," Francis said. "The green sour cuts through the sweetness and they marry each other perfectly."
This East Texas entrepreneur said she has ideas to expand on how to market to somebody's sweet tooth.
"Shipping, that's my next big step. Is being able to ship around the U.S. and then having our doors open on a regular basis to six days a week, or seven days a week," Francis said. "And eventually, this not being the only store, having multiples stores."
The Apple Gal is located at 2459 Mosaic Way, Tyler, TX 75701. The store is only open for three days: Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 11 a.m. And it's a first come, first serve until they sell out.