Cookie Time is preparing to open its second New Zealand Cookie Bar on George Street in Dunedin. Offering an all-day breakfast line and the Cookie Bar favourites - hero freakshakes, s’mores, hot cookies and hot and cold drinks. The new Bar is scheduled to open on November 26.
“We’re now in our 40th year of business, so it felt fitting to loop back to the first place where we ever sold cookies outside of our home base. We launched Cookie Time by delivering 70 jars of cookies to 70 Christchurch dairies in 1983,” said Guy Pope-Mayell, Co Founder and Managing Director.
“The following year, we expanded to Dunedin, and then eventually nationwide. So Dunedin has a special place in the Cookie Time world – and we’re thrilled to bring the magical, high energy explosion of flavour and colour that is the Cookie Bar to the heart of the city.”
The first Cookie Bar opened in Queenstown in 2010, followed by an international flagship in Harajuku, Tokyo, in 2013. A second international Cookie Bar is also in the works for Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
“It may seem like a long time between freakshakes in New Zealand. But we’ve put a lot of time and thought into testing and proof pointing the concept domestically and internationally, and then of course, the pandemic put the brakes on for a couple of years.”
“Now we're moving into full roll-out mode and are looking to open a new location each year over the next five years.”
