National cafe chain Wishbone in liquidation
National cafe chain Wishbone in liquidation
Stores of Wishbone, which has been in business for 23 years, are displaying signs saying "closed until further notice" and its website is also offline.
Pretty shit for the staff, but honestly not surprising if they're charging $10 for a basic egg sandwich.
I recall they sold their microwave meals on the intercity trains for an arm and a leg...
Was that a national chain?!
My mind had it filed under "just Wellington things".
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
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.