The Cake House is a dispensary chain headquartered in Wildomar, California, with stores across California and Michigan. Its menus run to more than 4,000 products from over 500 brands, sold through live-inventory ordering, an iOS app and an AI virtual budtender.
In May 2026 it bought 12 Cannabis 21+ retail licenses for about $25 million, a deal that took its California count to 23 alongside five Michigan stores.
Vista first, then the Wildomar flagship
The first store opened August 7, 2021, at 1275 S. Santa Fe Ave. in Vista, selling to medical customers. Six days later, on August 13, Vista won approval to sell to adults 21 and over. Daniel Wise was CEO, and Saad Pattah was listed among the founding members. Wise pitched the adult-use approval as a door opening for North San Diego County's large veteran community, and both early stores ran 20% veteran and 10% senior discounts.
The flagship followed on September 3, 2021: 2,100 square feet in Bear Valley Plaza on Clinton Keith Road in Wildomar, staffed by more than 25 people. "The Cake House is more than just a shop, it's a lifestyle," Wildomar general manager Ashton Aspell said at the opening. By that September the chain counted three stores, with Malibu joining Vista and Wildomar.
Cake Teal, TCH and the Cake Spaceman
Charlena Berry, then chief operating officer, laid out the brand build for Cannabis Business Times in November 2021. Wise wanted the stores to trigger one emotion, happiness, and landed on cake after months of brainstorming, pulling from hip-hop culture and cultivar names. The Cake House became the full name for trademark protection, and the initials TCH flip THC.
The color, Cake Teal, comes from 1950s and 1960s Chevrolet branding. Local artists Travis "Sharky" Crosby and Hasler painted the murals. Vista got a Cake Spaceman who "won't stop until there is a Cake on Mars," and Wildomar got a Monopoly Man working a cake machine. Budtenders train on an in-house program called C.A.A.K.E.
Battle Creek and the Michigan run
Michigan came next. In August 2022 The Cake House opened its first store there, 2,700 square feet at 1230 E. Michigan Ave. in Battle Creek, and threw its grand opening on September 10, 2022, under Michigan license AU-R-000781. It was the company's fifth store in 13 months, and Battle Creek native Jaziel Pugh painted the mural.
Geo Pattah was CEO by then, and Berry ran operations from Southwest Michigan. Berry also wrote Breaking the Stigma, a book on the prejudice around cannabis use, and the company called itself minority- and women-led. The launch menu carried Jeeter, Wyld, Redbud Roots, Kiva and Choice Labs. Battle Creek later added drive-thru ordering and online-order pickup, and the September 2026 Michigan roster covers Battle Creek, Lansing, Detroit, Pleasant Ridge and Ann Arbor.
The $25 million Cannabis 21+ deal
On May 15, 2026, San Diego Cannabis Times reported that The Cake House had acquired 12 Cannabis 21+ retail licenses. The stores sit in Sorrento Valley, Mission Valley, Lemon Grove, Rancho Bernardo, Perris, Hemet, Palm Desert, Riverside, Ukiah, Costa Mesa and two San Francisco locations.
President Saad Pattah put the transactions at about $25 million. Mission Valley came first, slated for a redesign into what Pattah called "something along the lines of a Super Store," with the other 11 set to open at a pace of one per week. By September 2026, Mission Valley, Sorrento Valley, Riverside and Hemet sat on the company's location list, with Rancho Bernardo and Lemon Grove listed ahead of opening.
San Diego doors and the California roster
San Diego is where the chain stacks up: Point Loma, Mankind, Mission Valley and Sorrento Valley, with Rancho Bernardo on deck. Mankind, at 7128 Miramar Road, runs as Mankind Dispensary powered by The Cake House under license C10-0000494-LIC. The Cake House Point Loma sits at 3452 Hancock St. and serves Ocean Beach and Mission Beach, too. Both open 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily with curbside and in-store pickup.
The September 2026 California list also includes San Jose, Santa Rosa, Vista, Encinitas, Wildomar, Corona, El Monte and Riverside. Lake Elsinore trades as The Nugg Hubb, and the Los Angeles store runs as ILLA. The Point Loma page counts more than 22 locations across the two states.
4,000 products and the brands on the wall
Those 4,000 products come from more than 500 brands. The San Diego store pages name STIIIZY, Raw Garden and Kiva among the brands on the shelf, and in September 2026 the homepage brand spotlight featured DIME Industries. Shoppers can reserve from live inventory for pickup or delivery, and the iOS app carries the full 4,000-product catalog.
For adults 21 and over.