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Eats And Sweets Changes Name Again: Meet The Maiden Voyage Cafe

 Eats and Sweets is changing its name for the second time in a month — to The Maiden Voyage.
Eats and Sweets is changing its name for the second time in a month — to The Maiden Voyage.
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RAVENSWOOD — Eats and Sweets Cafe is having a bit of an identity crisis.

In June, owners Margaret McCall and Tim Benedict announced they were rebranding the restaurant as The Mothership Cafe. The new name, they explained, was a better fit for the couple's expanding business enterprise, which also includes a second location, Uptown's Satellite Cafe.

But Mothership hit a little too close to home for another Chicago coffeehouse (which McCall declined to specify), so the husband-and-wife duo went back to the drawing board. Again.

In keeping with their space odyssey theme, the two landed on The Maiden Voyage Cafe, or Maiden for short.

"It's important to us to be a team player in the Chicago coffee scene as well as to be courteous to other small business owners," McCall said in a statement.

"We are respectfully changing the name ... to avoid any brand confusion in the future," she said.

Both Maiden, 1636 W. Montrose Ave., and Satellite are now grouped under McCall and Benedict's umbrella company, dubbed Intergalactic Cafes.