Cool Springs Cafe at The Country Club of Virginia in Richmond, Va., serves around 500 covers a day, and doughnuts are the top seller.
“It’s been a dream to have a pastry shop,” says Executive Pastry Chef Jessica Quiet, “but right now, the Cool Springs Cafe is the avenue for creative grab-and-go items.”
Quiet and her team (six full-time pastry staff) started the rotational, daily doughnut program about a year ago. Each day of the week is a different offer, and Thursday is a mystery doughnut.
“Every week, somebody on the team throws their hat in the ring, and they get to come up with something that they’ve seen trending or something that is familiar to them,” Quiet says. “We’ve done ube, we’ve done banana pudding, we’ve done peach cobbler. We did a blueberry pancake doughnut with little mini blueberry pancakes on top, a peach cobbler doughnut, strawberry matcha, Key lime pie.”
Every week is different, and the team has not repeated a flavor since the program began.
“The members are really excited to see what we come up with,” Quiet says. “We have members who come in super early for the daily donut. They get really excited.”
In addition to doughnuts, the cafe is stocked with a variety of sweet and savory daily croissants, cookies, Danishes, macarons, gourmet chocolate bars, pizza, and protein bars, all housemade.
On March 1, Quiet and her team began making housemade ice cream, packaged in pints for grab-and-go convenience.
“Members can purchase a pint for $12, or they can turn it into a sundae kit to take home for the kids, with a jar of housemade chocolate sauce, housemade salted caramel, and containers of different sprinkles,” Quiet says.
Among the favorite flavors is the signature CCV Cookie—chocolate chip cookie with toffee bits.
At the 2026 Chef to Chef Conference, Quiet says she was inspired by another chef to ask for a gelato machine to open a little gelato shop by the pool, to offer alongside other poolside favorites like burgers, hot dogs, and sandwiches next season.
Sweets like doughnuts and cookies perform well (the signature CCV Cookies sell around 1,200 per month), but healthy offers like the housemade protein bars perform well, too, Quiet says, given the club’s family-centric membership.
