7 December 2008

Just how many bakeries can one shopping centre intersection support?

7 December 2008 | johnboy

I was struck by this scene the other day. It’s the ground floor of the Canberra Centre, just outside the Supabarn.

You’ve got a Dobinson’s, a Bakers Delight, and a Golden Crust all within a croissant’s throw of each other.

On top of that, if baked goods are your thing, there’s a Muffin Break, a Donut King, and I’m pretty sure Supabarn does a selection of baked things too.

Choice is good, let the market decide and all that, but a shopping centre is hardly a free market.

Is this overkill? Or would you like more bakeries crammed cheek by jowl?

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jakez4:52 pm 08 Dec 08

Krispy Kreme is glorious. I’ve never been so happy to have type 2 diabetes.

Holden Caulfield4:37 pm 08 Dec 08

ant, you can do exactly that outside the Coles in Gungahlin. I think it’s a Donut King, but it might be a Wendy’s, either way, it has the little conveyor belt and you can watch your waistline and their donuts expand before your very eyes. Yummo!

ant4:03 pm 08 Dec 08

I remember when doughnuts used to be nice. There was a Woolworths in petrie plaza, where Centrepoint is now, and there was a doughtnut machine in the window, plopping out doughnuts into teh oil. They’d make a little journey through the oil, and then get dumped in the sugar/cinnamon mix at the end. A bag of those on a winter’s day was like being in heavan.

I cannot understand the popularity of those cold ones with icing on them. argh.

nomnomnom3:46 pm 08 Dec 08

Holden, Johnboy, you have made this mans day.

I agree Holden, I am appauled that the same word is used to describe a ring of hot fresh battery, cinnamon-ey deliciousness, cooked fresh infront of your eyes and also a cold stale, preservative soaked abomination smothered in fat and icing.

Now, to start applying for jobs in civic.

lion12:47 pm 08 Dec 08

Golden crust is cheapest if you don’t mind shit food (which I can’t stand). Otherwise 2$ cinamon scroll at Subabarn is the best buy
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Holden Caulfield11:20 am 08 Dec 08

nomnomnom said :

Can I get confirmation that there is now a DK in the canberra centre.

Confirmed. It’s near the entrance to Supa Barn.

Forget those other plastic things from the other chain, there’s nothing quite like a fresh cinnamon donut.

johnboy10:20 am 08 Dec 08

If you look closely you can see the pink donut king neon in the background of the photo.

H1NG010:14 am 08 Dec 08

Dobinsons Sausage Rolls FTW!! Godlike.

nomnomnom10:09 am 08 Dec 08

Can I get confirmation that there is now a DK in the canberra centre.

I worked in civic for 3 years and the thing I hated the most was the lack of hot, fresh cinnamon donuts. I now work in Dickson, where there is still no donuts.

Where is this fabled new Donut King?

Genie10:05 am 08 Dec 08

A donut king !? Did they finally put a Donut King in the Canberra Centre !?

Excellent! Now the job of scrounging $2 together to buy 1 cinnamon donut.

I’m just addicted to frozen cokes/raspberries esp in the summer… Always hated having to walk down to McDonalds.

Although I don’t think DK are that expensive for one little cinnamon donut !? I know Krispy Kreme sure as hell is…

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