, Australia

Pie Face enters New Zealand market

Pie Face plans to roll out at least 62 stores over the next 10 years across the North and South Island.

It has entered into a memorandum of understanding with New Zealand partners Julian Field and Jared Palmer. The local partners have a combined 17 years of QSR experience, with Field having been a multi-unit owner with Subway NZ for the past 15 years.

Pie Face has granted an exclusive license to operate the Pie Face business in NZ and will initially establish a training store in Auckland, followed by an initial rollout. Initially product will be imported from Pie Face in Australia, but the NZ franchise has the option to produce locally under license in New Zealand.

Wayne Homschek, Co-Founder and CEO of Pie Face, said, “We are excited to be in business with Julian and Jared in New Zealand, given their depth of experience in building, operating and franchising QSR stores in New Zealand. We are like minded in our hands on approach to operations and see a bright future for our brand in the NZ market.”

The first store is expected to open by April 2013.

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