National cafe chain Wishbone in liquidation (i.stuff.co.nz)

submitted 1 year ago by happy_piwakawaka@lemmy.nz to c/newzealand@lemmy.nz

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Pretty shit for the staff, but honestly not surprising if they're charging $10 for a basic egg sandwich.

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[-] livus@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Was that a national chain?!

My mind had it filed under "just Wellington things".

[-] happy_piwakawaka@lemmy.nz 5 points 1 year ago

Seems to have been mostly Wellington, with a few elsewhere. From an archive of their stores page I count:

Wellington: 14
Auckland: 2
Christchurch: 1

[-] TagMeInSkipIGotThis@lemmy.nz 3 points 1 year ago

The production kitchen and company headquarters was based in Wellington. I think they originally started out on Woodward street, and then had a big kitchen on Victoria St for a while - down near the Ghuznee St end.

At various points the number of stores outside of Wellington grew; for instance i'm pretty sure they had stores in the Auckland CBD itself - on Vulcan Lane maybe. I had no idea that Wellington it had as many as it did but they also sold via supermarkets for some time as well as couriering direct to customers as well I think.

Its interesting looking at their branding, doesn't look like it changed much from the mid 2000s.