OUR MISSION
"🇵🇭 Celebrating Filipino culture—one cookie at a time."
Being Filipino-American, isn’t it crazy how this is the very first time in our history when our Filipino heritage is being celebrated—LET’S GET IT!!
SALAMAT means ‘THANK YOU’ in Filipino 🇵🇭 and is pronounced..
“SAH-LAH-MAHT”
When we started our family cookie business, we had no clue that SALAMAT would even become a business at all. It all began in Indianapolis, IN during the pandemic in 2020 when Mike (Founder) was learning how to bake from his Mama Odie (pictured below) for the very first time—simply wanting to be that cool soccer Dad who brought cookies to practice one day. And take in mind, he didn’t even have any kids yet lol.
📸: @lugaokasberg | Mike and MAMA Odie at their first out-of-state POPUP at Kabisera on the Lower East Side (LES) in New York City
“Initially, Mike was giving these cookies away just to say 'thank you’ (or SALAMAT 🇵🇭)”
…to friends and family who were helping him out when work as a photographer was hard to come by—anyone else lose their job during COVID? 😅
Then one day, a couple friends from a local chiropractor’s office asked if those cookies were for sale—he was like, "uhhhhh, yup ☝🏽😀," and that’s when the SALAMAT story began!
OUR VALUES
Joy • Gratitude • Pamilya (family)
Proverbs 11:25
On Mother’s Day 2020 (5/10), we set a “300” cookie goal to help Mike pay his rent and utilities out in Los Angeles…
📸: Landon (Landito) McFarland—MAMA Odie’s grandson, and Mike’s nephew
…and we have now shipped to 49/50 states (c’,mon Wyoming 😭, 5 countries, and just baked our 200,000th cookie—let’s GOOOOO!! 🍪🎉
SALAMAT Cookies!® is the very FIRST Nationwide Filipino-inspired Cookie Popup and Cookie Delivery Service! Having popped up in places like New York City, Chicago, Miami, Los Angeles, and more, we are looking forward to popping up in Seattle, Portland, and The Bay (SF/Oakland) this upcoming 2024!
And with all the support and encouragement to keep baking and sharing FilAm culture, we just keep on baking 🔥 !!
#BAKEItTilYouMAKEIt
Our GOALS for 2024:
1.) Have Salamat Cookies!® in retail grocery locations all across the Midwest
2.) B-C-E — BIG COOKIE ENERGY! Connect with 50 distribution community partners across the USA
3.) Pop-up for the first time in Seattle, Portland, and Atlanta
4.) bake our 300,000th cookie !
Maraming SALAMAT po (thank you so so much, with respect) 💛 for supporting our mission and giving our cookies meaning—we greatly look forward to serving you soon! We wouldn’t be SALAMAT without you 👈🏽☺️