Kathan Parikh: Cinnabon is coming to New Zealand

Cinnabon is coming to New Zealand! The popular American bakery will open it's first store in Westfield New Market next month. 

It will start off selling many of it's classic cinnamon scrolls and blended frozen drinks, which come in flavours like mango, strawberry, and cookies and cream. 

Kathan Parikh is the director of Cinnabon New Zealand who acquired the franchise rights, he joins Jack Tame with more. 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Seventeen past five on news talks. He'd be so. Chris Bishop,
who is the Minister of Sport and Recreation, has today
asked Sport New Zealand to review and update its principles
for the inclusion of transgender people in community sport. He
says that the current guidelines don't reflect expectations that sport
be about fairness and safety as well as diversity, inclusion
and equity. So he's going to be with us before

(00:21):
six o'clock this evening. We can ask him exactly what
that means right now though. Eighteen past five and Cinnabon
is coming to New Zealand. The popular American bakery will
open its first store at Westfield Newmarket next month. It'll
start off selling many of its classic cinnamon rolls and
blended frozen drinks which come in flavors like mangoes, strawberry,
and cookies and cream. Kathan Peric is the director of

(00:43):
Sinabon New Zealand. He acquired the franchise rights and is
with us now.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
Hi, Kathan, Hey, thank you, thank you for having me.

Speaker 1 (00:49):
Why did you want to bring Cinnabon to New Zealand.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
You know I've looked at the franchise for a while now,
had it overseas a couple of times and thought that
there's something that needed to come to New Zealand. And yeah,
a treat just give to New Zealanders.

Speaker 1 (01:07):
So for people who don't know what cinnabon is, can
you describe it?

Speaker 2 (01:11):
It's the best cinnamon roles that you ever eat. We
provide you know, frosting on it, with lots of other
treats such as coffee chiladas. It's a package.

Speaker 1 (01:25):
It's a sometimes food delicious, but definitely are sometimes food
that there'd be a fair assessment of a sinnabon, right.

Speaker 2 (01:31):
Yeah, it's a treat, you know, just that one extra
thing that you need after dinner as a treat your
sweet tooth. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:39):
So obviously this has been a huge success in some
other markets like the US. Why did you think that
it would be a big deal in New Zealand.

Speaker 2 (01:48):
We've been studying the Asia Pacific markets for a while now,
and with the success that it's had in Australia and
with their rapid expansion that it's doing in the Southern
Asian markets in the Pacific market industr Arlia, we definitely
thought that this wasn't something that would be really good
in New Zealand, and it would we can be expand
a lot as well.

Speaker 1 (02:08):
How tricky is it to pick up the franchise rights
for something like Sinnabon.

Speaker 2 (02:13):
There's a couple of hopes and hurdles to go through,
but in the sense of you know, setting up and stuff,
it's pretty It's pretty hard, but it also has a
toll on you. But we're all it's pretty good.

Speaker 1 (02:26):
And what are you hoping for Cinnabon and New Zealand.
Are we going to see more than one stare?

Speaker 2 (02:31):
Definitely so over the next five years, we're looking at
rapid expansion all over, firstly in Auckland and then towards
the other parts of the country.

Speaker 1 (02:41):
Good stuff, good good luck, Kaithan. We appreciate your time,
kath and Peric, who is the director of Sinnabon New Zealand.
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