ROLLING Pin Pies and Cakes has just officially opened its fourth store on the Bellarine.
\nWith stores successfully operating in Ocean Grove\u2019s town centre, Queenscliff and Leopold, the award-winning bakery last week opened its most recent store in Ocean Grove\u2019s industrial estate.
\nLocated at 17 Marine Parade, this new store also includes a big factory that will eventually become the businesses site for production.
\n\u201cIt\u2019s a really big shed so ultimately the factory will become our site for production, and we\u2019ll move everything over from our Ocean Grove shop,\u201d Rolling Pin general manager Nathan Williams said.
\n\u201cThat will be a couple of years from now as there is no rush for that, but for the time being we\u2019ve fitted out the showroom of our factory to be our new shop.
\n\u201cWe didn\u2019t just want to do a token tradies shop, we wanted it to be like our other stores, so it\u2019s an amazing fit out and we\u2019re really proud of it.\u201d
\nMr Williams said the thought of one day having a factory with a shop attached had been something his family had been thinking about for the past 10 years.
\n\u201cBut as far as sheds being available in the area, this seemed to come up at the right time and it\u2019s getting pretty tight in the bakehouse over in Ocean Grove, so we jumped on it,\u201d Mr Williams said.
\n\u201cWe are not in any rush but we won\u2019t rule out expanding more in the future, possibly Geelong way.\u201d
\nMr Williams said his family wanted to look after the people working in the industrial estate, and with Oakdene and Kingston estates expanding, they were able to serve that whole side of town too.
\n\u201cWe\u2019ve had lots of tradies and workers and people walking their dogs from Kingston here, a real mix,\u201d he said.
\nAfter winning many categories in The Great Aussie Pie Competition, Mr Williams said the Rolling Pin team were working hard to create some new pie flavours for next month\u2019s competition.
\n\u201cWe\u2019ve been playing around with new pie flavours that we will enter this year and we got some really great feedback at our last competition, so we want to have a real crack this year!\u201d
\nOcean Grove locals Geoff and Susie Chalker have owned the Ocean Grove Rolling Pin since 1997 and have gone on to open stores in Queenscliff in 2004 and Leopold in 2016.
\nThey operate the business together with their daughters Kristy Williams and Stacey Lincoln, their son in law Nathan Williams and their five grandchildren are the official taste testers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
ROLLING Pin Pies and Cakes has just officially opened its fourth store on the Bellarine. With stores successfully operating in Ocean Grove\u2019s town centre, Queenscliff and Leopold, the award-winning bakery last week opened its most recent store in Ocean Grove\u2019s industrial estate. Located at 17 Marine Parade, this new store also includes a big factory […]<\/p>\n