Trading Post Cafe & Restaurant Business for Sale
Paengaroa, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand

The little Cafe with the BIG reputation.

The place is the Trading Post Cafe & Restaurant and its just come on the market for sale as a leasehold business with a low rental or the business can be purchased outright as a freehold going concern.

The business is small, intimate, smoke free, and fully licensed. It has an enviable reputation for outcatering to local weddings and private functions and has featured in the NZ Herald, North and South Magazine, and is recommended in Cuisine Magazine.

Trading Post Cafe & Restaurant at Paengaroa is located among wealthy kiwifruit orchards and close to major tourist attractions at "the Junction". Customers come from the immediate hotticultural and farming community, from the nearby beachfront communities of Pukehina and Maketu and from passing tourist traffic travelling from scenic Tauranga to thermal Rotorua.

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The present owners have completely refurbished the house to provide two dining rooms with all the ambience that comes from polished wooden floors, open fireplace, quality antique furnishings and impeccable colour taste. Up to 34 diners can be comfortably seated. 

A powder room with separate toilet, highly functional kitchen with pantry and storage area and guest parking front and rear complement the business. 

While the Café has an "Old English Country Pub" atmosphere, the al fresco dining in the cottage garden is uniquely New Zealand.

As a Cafe, the business offers a Blackboard menu of specialty cakes, muffins, soups, all day breakfast, entrees, salads, light meals and deserts. 

After 6 pm, the business operates as a Restaurant offering a la carte dining based around fresh regional foods – lamb, cervena, salmon, chicken, scallops, crab and steak. 

Trading Post Cafe & Restaurant is fully licensed, including "Bring Your Own" wine (evenings only).

Trading Post Cafe & Restaurant offers private functions on any night of the week at the Restaurant or at the customer's venue. Outcatering is a profitable adjunct to the restaurant and has the potential to be greatly expanded.

Outcatering is mainly for weddings and private functions. If small, the function or wedding is usually held in-house. Otherwise, outcatering for larger functions is to halls or marques. Trading Post Cafe & Restaurant just supply the food, while the hosts supply venue, tables, chairs, crockery and everything else.

The restaurant is powered by a small commercial kitchen with:

• Walk-in chiller with plastic shelving
• Upright freezer
• Refrigerators (2)
• Gas oven with 4 gas rings
• Electric oven with gas hob top
• Double electric oven
• Microwave oven (2)
• Stainless steel fume extraction hood (2)
• Starline dishwasher
• Stainless steel wash-up benches
• Preparation bench
• Pavoni coffee machine

Business Hours:
Cafe - Monday to Sunday - 10.30 am to 4.00 pm for lunch.
Restaurant - Thursday, Friday and Saturday - 6.00 pm onwards for dinner.

Staff:
Trading Post Cafe is operated by the two owners with assistance from casual kitchen and waiting staff, as required. If required, the present owners are prepared to assist the new owner, tems by arrangement.

Stock:
Stock at Valuation will total about $2000 and comprise mainly catering ingredients, dry goods and alcohol.

Licences:
Health Certificate.
Bar Managers Certificate.
On Licence for alcohol sales.

Customers:
A list of regular customers and off-catering functions will be provided to the new owner.

Promotion and Advertising:
Trading Post Cafe & Restaurant are part of a 20-strong group of local businesses collectively marketing Paengaroa under the brand name "The Junction, every reason to visit". Trading Post has an online advertisement with "The Junction" and a Web site with Te Puke Online. Other promotion comes from flyers sent to local households and from advertisements placed in the local Te Puke newspaper, in Telecom Yellow pages, and in the Pacific Highway Magazine.  

Paengaroa Village has several notable tourist attractions that bring custom to Trading Post Cafe and Restaurant. Attractions such as "Kiwifruit Country",  "Longridge Park", "Comvita Visitor Centre", "Craft by Kiwis" and "U-drive 4WD" are vet popular with locals and tourists alike.

Tauranga is 35 km north of Paengaroa and is the commercial centre for the Bay of Plenty. The Port of Tauranga is New Zealand’s largest port and timber, paper, fruit and dairy products are all exported.

For those wanting to go water skiing, fresh water lakes and the sea are just 30 minutes away. Lake Taupo is an hour away and its only a little further to the snow fields of Mt Ruapehu.