A NEW Disney World restaurant is one step closer to being complete.

Cakes at the Cake Bake Shop in Indianapolis

Over at Disney’s BoardWalk, the NEW Cake Bake Shop Restaurant by Gwendolyn Rogers has taken over the old ESPN Club and is making lots of construction progress. We visited one of their locations outside of Disney World to give you a taste of what the Disney experience may be like, but now we’ve got another update on just how the restaurant’s construction is coming along.

The Cake Bake Shop has filed a new permit (notice of commencement) with Orange County, Florida regarding the construction of its location at Disney’s BoardWalk. The permit was recorded on March 28th, 2023. It is specifically for “the buildout of the Cake Bake Shop at Disney.” While that doesn’t give us a ton of details, it does seem to indicate that work on the restaurant would really be ramping up soon!

Construction in Late March

The Cake Bake Shop is identified as the Lessee in the permit, while Disney is identified as the titleholder of the property.

The contractor listed is Johnson-Lancaster and Associates. According to their website, they are “one of the premier food service equipment contractors in the United States and the Caribbean.” They’ve worked on everything from dining halls at universities to luxury resorts and stadiums.

Things Are Coming Along

They identify their “chief areas of expertise” as including “project management, engineering, design, purchasing, and commercial kitchen equipment installation.”

In Orlando, they’ve worked on things like the Three Broom Sticks at Universal Studios, the Contemporary Resort’s California Grill, various hotels at Universal, and more.

Concept art for The Cake Bake Shop

The notice of commencement was signed by THE Gwendolyn Rogers, president of The Cake Bake Shop, who we had the pleasure of interviewing some time ago — you can read that interview here.

We’re excited to see what work starts to happen at the Cake Bake Shop in the coming weeks and months. The new restaurant is set to open at some point in 2023, and will offer breakfast, lunch, and dinner, with sweet and savory menus. There will be an afternoon sea service, and even the option to get some things to go from the bakery case.

Cake Bake Shop in Indianapolis Broad Ripple

We’ll keep an eye out for more updates and let you know what we find.

Click here to see some permits that could signal major hotel changes in Disney World

Are you excited about the Cake Bake Shop? Tell us in the comments.