Gaslight Bakery owners Chris and Mairead Dyde have been looking for a second shop for their wares and found one in Aramoho.
They started selling their pies, scones, sandwiches, buns and slices from the former Aramoho Service Station building in Somme Parade on Wednesday, Mrs Dyde said.
"We thought Aramoho was a
good place. There's plenty of traffic and plenty of clientele and there was room for a bakery."
They fitted out the former service station with counters and have a month-to-month lease from the landlord while they assess profitability.
At the moment, Mrs Dyde is the sole staffer in Aramoho and the shop is open from 7am to 2.30pm, Monday to Friday. The couple may yet decide to take on a part-time staffer and open on Saturdays.
The Gaslight business has six staff, five of them full-time. Mr Dyde starts baking in their upper Victoria Ave premises in the early hours of the morning.
His wife said he made everything fresh, every day, from scratch, including the bread used for sandwiches.
"We start with the raw ingredients, flour, yeast, water and salt. It's a dying art. A lot of people start with pre-frozen dough. It isn't really baking, it's warming up."
The bakery also supplies food wholesale to Wanganui cafes and hotels. Anything left over at the end of the day goes to a pig farmer, who in turn supplies the business with pork and other meat.
The couple have owned the Gaslight for three years, after arriving in Wanganui from Taupo. In Taupo Mr Dyde worked at Woolworths supermarket and at two other bakeries. His wife ran a motel in Taupo and a hotel in her home country of Northern Ireland.
