When April Robart and her family lived in Kalamazoo, they loved visiting the local Cheese Lady location.
“We would go out on an afternoon walk and go there to sample the cheeses,” she said. “We’d end up just blown away, and that’s why we always wanted to open one.”
The Kalamazoo location was the first franchise of the Muskegon-based specialty cheese company. Robart’s children were younger at the time, and she and her husband, Forrest, were too busy to open their own. But with their children out of the house, they decided now was the perfect time…