King Pie’s Dough Starts To Roll
A Winnipeg business’s attempt to establish a new mass-market fast-food meat pie venture has been forced into a more humble approach and is reaping some early rewards. King Pie hit some significant snags trying to import the meat-and-dessert pastry store franchise into Canada from South Africa during the past couple of years.
After initially launching in spring 2007, franchises sputtered from lack of awareness and advertising dollars and were not able to approach the level of popularity of the thriving, 300-store South African chain.
A handful of franchise stores were opened in Winnipeg, Calgary and Vancouver by the second half of 2008, but all but one have closed, with only the corporate-owned Polo Park store remaining open.
Meanwhile, after sinking millions of dollars into high-tech production equipment, King Pie’s manufacturing operation in Winnipeg, Kudu Foods, had to shut down earlier this year for several weeks after racking up some impressive bills before any serious revenue flowed.
Things started to turn around after bringing in food brokers Glen D. Ross Agencies this spring, and the company is starting to find some customers in the institutional sector.
Production started again early this month and orders are coming in from the likes of Headingley Correctional Centre and the RCMP Training Academy in Regina.
“We think this is going to be a real good-news story,” said Brian Ross, of Glen D. Ross Agencies. Read on…
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