Loaves & Fishes Offers Digital Discount Passport

Loaves & Fishes, which operates three distinct businesses on the East End, has launched a new customer loyal program called the Loaves & Fishes Family Passport.

The program offers “passport” holders a 10 percent discount on products, access to members-only sales events, and dibs on new products and services, for a $100 annual fee.

The business had its origins in the Loaves & Fishes gourmet food shop on Main Street in Sagaponack, which Anna Pump opened in 1980. It later expanded to Main Street in Bridgehampton to include the Bridgehampton Inn, a boutique hotel, which opened in 1994, and the Loaves & Fishes cookware shop, which opened its doors in 2004. A decade later, the family opened the Bridgehampton Inn restaurant.

“A lot of customers don’t know we have all these ventures,” said Sybille Van Kempen, Pump’s daughter, who now heads the local gastronomic empire. “So we wanted to bring it together and offer an incentive for shopping with us.”

Van Kempen, who has run the business since the death of her mother in 2015, said she was proud that her three children have joined her in the business, “so there is family at every location every day.”

Her son Stefan helps run the food store and cookshop, her son Kyle is a partner in the restaurant as well as its mixologist, bar man, and wine consultant, and her daughter, Katrina, is manager and baker at the food store.

Moving into the summer season, Van Kempen said the restaurant at the Bridgehampton Inn, which is currently open from Wednesday through Sunday, will also be open on Mondays, starting in July.

The family is continuing to work on the property adjoining the cookshop and inn, where it plans to open additional space for retail sales and an educational center for its cooking classes.

To “apply for a digital Loaves & Fishes Family Passport,” visit loavesandfishes.us.