OFF THE WIRE
Zoe Bain
It turns out the Farmer's Daughter restaurant in Sacramento, California, was not your typical dining establishment. Service was perfectly normal until it came time for dessert, when some patrons know to ask for the house "baked goods." According to the Sacramento Bee, at an early morning raid this week, searchers discovered 80 pounds of marijuana in a back-room dispensary at the Farmer's Daughter and at the owners' home.
The restaurant is charged with operating an illegal marijuana dispensary in the back room, selling a variety of "baked" goods. Deputy Jason Ramos said there were, "cannabis-prepared desserts, lollipops, pastry balls, an assortment of things you'd eat."
Deputy Ramos also explained the secret nature of the restaurant's secondary business: "People come in and sit down and have lunch and never know there was a medical marijuana dispensary in the back room," he said.
Eater reports that a Yelp review about the Farmer's Daughter claims otherwise. One customer wrote, "Why are there so many cameras? Why are random people coming in and going to a backroom that is locked? Each time we have come we are the only ones eating and it is during lunch hour. However many people come in, are let into the backroom, are in there for about 5 to 10 minutes, then leave. Is this place a front for some other type of operations running behind closed doors?" Ultimately, it appears that some customers at the Farmer's Daughter knew about or suspected the backroom dealings.
