Slices and complete pies will now solely be bought on the bakery’s bodily location on the North Shore of Oahu.
Who doesn’t love a Ted’s Bakery pie? From its island-famous chocolate haupia pie to its blueberry cream pie, there’s actually no fallacious selection. Nonetheless, you’ll quickly need to make the trek right down to the bakery’s bodily location on the North Shore of Oʻahu to get a slice for your self, because the enterprise will likely be ending its wholesale operation on Might 20, 2022, after 26 years.
Whilst you may straightforward discover a Ted’s Bakery pie in native grocery shops and retailers—like Foodland, Occasions, Don Quixote and Tamura’s—round Oʻahu, Maui and Kauaʻi, an surprising provide chain difficulty has been plaguing the native enterprise for years—and sufficient is sufficient. The ingredient inflicting the problem is a selected kind of starch that Ted’s Bakery makes use of in its baking course of that retains the correct consistency proper as it’s frozen and shipped to native grocery shops and retailers.
Tory Nakamura, who now runs the store after the semi-retirement of her father, Ted Nakamura, mentioned that the producer of the ingredient is now not producing it, which is flip makes it unclear whether or not or not the bakery will have the ability to return to its wholesale operation in any respect.
“This has been an ongoing problem for the reason that summer time of final yr, and we have now examined a number of substitutes however sadly haven’t had nice success. At the moment, we don’t know if we are able to return to wholesale,” mentioned Ted’s Bakery in an Instagram publish. “Pies and desserts will nonetheless be out there at our Sundown Seashore location. We actually respect your understanding and continued help.”
So in the event you’re craving a Ted’s pie, what do you have to do? Make a day of your sweet-tooth journey and head as much as the North Shore, the place you may also get pleasure from a number of the greatest seashores on Oʻahu. And for guests touring to the state, you’ll have a fantastic excuse to really try the bakery’s brick and mortar location, which additionally occurs to promote scrumptious plates of garlic shrimp in addition to burgers and different delectable plate lunch choices.
For extra data and for retailer hours, go to Ted’s Bakery’s website.
