{"id":7872,"date":"2025-06-30T15:44:02","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T15:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/princetonillinois.com\/?p=7872"},"modified":"2025-06-30T15:44:02","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T15:44:02","slug":"new-cafe-more-thriving-in-new-ottawa-location-shaw-local","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/princetonillinois.com\/?p=7872","title":{"rendered":"New cafe, More, thriving in new Ottawa location – Shaw Local"},"content":{"rendered":"


More proprietor Jen McMullen (left) and staff members Sarah Gierden, Shae Mason, Elle Muntz and Mary Domoleczny stand ready to serve the cafe\u2019s customers at 818 La Salle Street in Ottawa on Tuesdays through Saturdays from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. <\/span>(Charlie Ellerbrock)
Shopping in downtown Ottawa<\/a> and it\u2019s time to look for some breakfast or lunch, maybe a nice hot or old coffee drink followed by a sweet treat or two?
Don\u2019t settle for less. Look for More.
More, the Ottawa version of the popular Streator<\/a> cafe and coffee shop More on Main, is open for business and already is thriving from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Tuesday through Saturday in its new Ottawa location at 818 La Salle St.
Like its namesake in Streator, the Ottawa cafe sports menus that include breakfast burritos, bagels, paninis and a variety of other items and for lunch salads, sandwiches, soups and assorted extras, all accompanied by a long list of coffees and other hot and cold drinks.
There are rotating schedules of drink specials, salad specials and soup of the day specials for each day of the week, for example Tuesday is the day for creamy chicken and mushroom soup and a broccoli salad, while Saturday you\u2019ll find a roasted sweet potato salad and a stuffed pepper soup.
Though right now More is on the winter menu, there will be other specialties that come forward when the warmer weather arrives.
\u201cWe make everything from scratch, but I feel our soups and salads are unique and fresh,\u201d More proprietor Jen McMullen said. \u201cYou can\u2019t go just anywhere and get a spicy peanut stew, so try it while you\u2019re here. Our house chopped salad is the core of what we\u2019ve been serving \u2026 The cheeseburger salad sells really, really well in Streator and here we sell Superfood salads all day long. Our banana bars with cream cheese frosting is our signature dessert, too.\u201d
The simple one word name of More was obviously a spin off of the Streator location, but is also a mantra for the kind of wares McMullen wanted to sell.
\u201cI opened More in Streator and named it that because I wanted a place that gives you more fresh-food options,\u201d McMullen said. \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of great bar food and a lot of fast food around, but there\u2019s a gap in there \u2013 something fresh, like a just-made salad or sandwich \u2013 so that\u2019s where the More came from.
\u201cWe already had several customers coming to Streator from Ottawa and quite a few Streator regulars who work in Ottawa, so they\u2019d ask us, \u2018When are you coming to Ottawa?\u2019 At first I said \u2018we\u2019re not,’ but now that we\u2019re a finely oiled machine, I felt we could do it \u2026 Ottawa has a more laid back feel than the chaotic business we do in Streator, but we\u2019re feeling very welcome here. It\u2019s been great.\u201d
Her seven years of success in Streator has taught McMullen that regular customers are \u201cthe backbone\u201d to success and that happens through a friendly, smiling and efficient staff.
\u201cPeople will forgive you if you serve them a sub-par salad, as long as you serve it with a smile, apologize and make it right,\u201d she said, \u201cbut if you\u2019re nasty to them and serve them a perfect salad, they won\u2019t be coming back.
\u201cWe have to and want have relationships with our customers and make people want to come in and be here. We hope people will come in and give us a try.\u201d
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More proprietor Jen McMullen (left) and staff members Sarah Gierden, Shae Mason, Elle Muntz and Mary Domoleczny stand ready to serve the cafe\u2019s customers at 818 La Salle Street in Ottawa on Tuesdays through Saturdays from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. (Charlie Ellerbrock)Shopping in downtown Ottawa and it\u2019s time to look for some breakfast or lunch, maybe a nice hot<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t