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happy_piwakawaka @lemmy.nz

2y ago

National cafe chain Wishbone in liquidation

National cafe chain Wishbone in liquidation

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

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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.