Lambert’s Cafe - Sikeston and Miner, Missouri
Lambert’s Cafe - Sikeston and Miner, Missouri
Get down! Here come the rolls! This is the original place that rolls were thrown to you during your meal.
Lamert’s Cafe was established on March 13, 1942. Earl and Agnes Lambert with 14 cents between them, borrowed $1500 from Tish Jones and with 5 employees opened for business in a small building on South Main Street in Sikeston Missouri. It consisted of a 9 stool counter and 8 tables for a total seating capacity of 41 people.
The cafe standing right now is the third one to be located there. Each move from the original LAMBERT’S came as popularity of the cafe increased and more space was needed. The first roll was thrown in 1976 by Norman Lambert. At the original location, he would walk around and hand out the rolls.. One day it was really busy when Norman couldn’t get through the crowd….one of the customers yelled to him " Throw the D*** thing!". And with that The ONLY HOME OF THROWED ROLLS ® was born.
The Lamert’s have three cafes, one in Ozark, one in Foley and this one in Sikeston.
Their ovens turn out rolls from 9:15 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. usually without stopping. With this in mind they thought you might be interested in the following: last year they averaged baking 520 dozen rolls per day, for a grand total of 2,246,400 individual rolls.
Their rolls are 5 inches in diameter and if they laid the rolls that they baked in one year side by side, they would have 177.27 miles of rolls. In the past 21 months they have baked enough rolls to reach 300 miles. That’s the distance between St. Louis, Missouri and Memphis, Tennessee
Location: 2305 E. Malone, Sikeston
Hours: 10:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. or so
Phone: 573-471-4261
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