Lebanese Bakery & Takeaways Business For Sale
Wellington, New Zealand



Pita Bread, pizza and delicious Lebanese food

Miramar is famous as the home of Peter Jackson's film production company and epic films such as the "Lord of the Rings" and "King Kong".

Miramar is also famous as the home of Weta Workshops and the special effects that are so much part of Peter Jackson's films. Both studios employ lots of staff who often work around the clock.

So its no great surprise when the Alamir Bakery in Miramar gets phone orders for Lebanese food to be delivered to one or other of the Studios - it's just that the orders run into a lot of food and many hundreds of dollars.

Alamir Bakery offers a unique combination of commercial bakery for traditional Lebanese pita bread and a takeaway bar specialising in popular, everyday, Lebanese foods.

About a third of the floor space in the Bakery is taken up with a fully automatic Bramco Bakri bakery machine which is operated from a separate room. The Bramco Bakri was designed and built in Lebanon (see http://www.bakrico.com/machinery.html for more information) and installed at Miramar for the preparation of Arabic pita bread. The bakery machine can also cook Western breads and a variety of Arabic pastries and Western confectionary.

Alamir Bakery currently prepares two sizes of pita bread, although the machinery can produce any size up to 40 cm in diameter and from 2 mm to 10 mm thick. The baking machine is usually operated on two days of the week and can produce up to 10,000 bread packets per day. On occasion, the machine has operated for up to four days to fill special orders.

Alamir Bakery has recently shifted to new larger 255 square metre premises. All their regular customers plus many new customer have commented positively on the larger premises which has seating for 30 people.

The new kitchen prepares Lebanese takeaway foods such as kebabs and Iskandar. Traditional pizzas are also cooked to order in a large gas-fired Bakri pizza oven. They have updated their menu, adding new meals such as wedges and nachos and have recently installed an espresso machine so fresh coffee is now available. The Bakery also sells a selection of Lebanese food ingredients for those who want to cook at home. There is now a huge selection of imported dry, canned and bottled goods from Lebanon which the owner personally selected on a recent visit.

Alamir Bakery is ideally located in Miramar with easy customer access and heaps of customer parking. The business is surrounded by high-interest retail shops. This is a perfect combination as customers can get food, drink, and entertainment all at one easy location.

The business sale is conditional on employing the operator of the Bramco Bakri baking machine. Having an expert baker as part of the package means the business could be operated by an absentee owner, or by an owner who wants to work only part-time.

Bakery bakes and prepares a range of traditional Lebanese foods

Lebanese bread:
The business bakes pita breads for every New World supermarket and Pak n Save supermarket in the Wellington Region. It supplies supermarkets as far away as Napier and Christchurch. Pita breads are also sold to Wellington Restaurants that specialise in Lebanese foods. Alamir Bakery is the only Lebanese bakery in Wellington.

Popular Lebanese foods as takeaways:

• Lebanese Kebabs - beef, chicken, lamb, Lamb Shish, Shish Tawook, Kebby
• Vegetarian Kebabs - Vine leaves, Falafel, Hummus
• Main Dishes - Iskander (beef, chicken, lamb), Vegetarian
• Lebanese Pizzas - thyme, cheese, spinach, Lahm Bajeen
• Desserts - Baklava
  

Ingredients for home baking:
The business sells a selection of popular Lebanese food ingredients such as soups, chick peas, noodles, olives, pickled cucumber, dry vine leaves, semolina, and rice pudding.

Leasehold Premises

Alamir Bakery operates from Shop 4B, 9/11 Tauhinau Road in Miramar. The building (255 square metres) has a concrete floor, concrete block walls, and full-length glass frontage windows. Inside walls are painted and the ceiling is of tiles with inset fluorescent lighting. There is a staff toilet.

Plant and equipment being sold

A complete list of all fittings, fixtures and chattels being sold is available to interested purchasers. Main items include:

• Bramco Bakri automatic baking machine with conveyers and tunnel oven
• Stainless steel wash-up sinks and benches, wooden work counter, wooden shelving
• Bakbar grill, gas ring (for hot meals), fume exhaust fan and hood, Bakri gas-fired pizza oven
• Dough mixers (2, one with large capacity bowl), dough tub, pastry brake
• Debonaire glass door refrigerator, chest freezer, vinyl floor coverings, light fittings
• Refrigerated glass-fronted food display counter, wooden servery counter, stools and chairs
• Casio cash register, Eftpos terminal
• Toyota High Ace delivery van
  

Day to day management at Alamir Bakery

Business Hours:
Bakery - Monday and Thursday.
Takeaways - Monday to Saturday, 9.30 am to 8.00 pm.

Staff:
Alamir Bakery employs 10 staff when making pita bread. At other times, 1-2 staff are employed in the Takeaways. The business sale is conditional on employing the present expert baker who operates the Bramco Bakri baking machine.

Licences:
Food and Health Safety Certificate.

Stock:
Stocks of flour and food ingredients used for day to day trading will be included in the business sale.

Advertising and Promotion:
The business advertises through its location and building signage, in local newspapers, and extensively on 5 local radio stations. Best promotion comes from the combination of radio advertising and word of mouth recommendations.

For more information about Alamir Bakery, call Jamil on 0274 379 314

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