Birdsville Bakery Closed

Didn't the original owner just die?
Care to share a link? I cant find anything on this

Bummer, had planned on using the bakery in a few weeks time. Do understand the reasons for shutting though, tough place to run a business.

Changed owners a few years ago for $1.2 million according to this....

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-04-03/birdsville-bakery-and-its-famous-curried-camel-pie-new-managers/8405350

Sorry to see it close if that's the case.

https://www.facebook.com/search/top/?q=birdsville%20bakery&epa=SEARCH_BOX

I can't get into the Birdsville Bakery Facebook page - but the Birdsville Hotel Facebook page, repeats the news that the Birdsville Bakery "will not be trading until further notice".

Facebook - Birdsville Hotel

Cheers, Ron.

Another requiem Jack. Retirement can't come soon enough so I can get out there and revisit some of the outback icons before it's too late. Trust you and BMJ will be touring this year. Will we see you down south?

MickO

It's a shame.
However, both times we stopped there during last year's BRB, they had no food available. Both occasions were during relatively quiet periods. Didn't seem to be much baking going on...

There were many people missing out on food. Opportunity lost, IMO.

THAT's really poor planning if you ask me. They played their own part in their demise.

I wonder why it would close right at the beginning of the peak season.

Finke desert Race, June / July peak, school holidays, the Big Red circus, Races, and a wonderful year for floods.

Seems to me that could provide enough income to keep things going, or pay off a few debts.

Maybe the people who volunteer at the wonderful bakery at Farina each year could move up the Birdsville track and take over there as well?!

Seems their facebook page has disappeared.

Maybe a smart man sold the business with excellent turn over figures, must have had fantastic ones to justify the sale price, new owner not good business man, old owner buys back at bargain price after having a well earned holiday?????? Opens in time for BRB or more likely Races.....

Have been there three times since 2014. Last time last August after Madigan Line. Always packed with custom. Really sad. From friends that attended BRB last year everything in BV was in short supply including hospitality 3 hour wait for fuel.
Very sad but shops closing all over the bush small towns. Progress? Down hill slide more like.
trawe

I was in Birdsville just four weeks ago, and from a local tour guide, the closure had more to do with the original owner (the baker who started it off) selling the business, and the payment or part of it didn't happen. It was sold to a local who is in the tourism business and is still plying his tourist trade in Birdsville.

From what I could see, the rest of the Birdsville commercial establishments are making sure that they don't miss you. Everything and anything, is being sold to capture the tourist dollar, but making and selling enough pies couldn't make it. I went to Birdsville wanting to see an iconic frontier town, but what greeted me, was crass commercialism. With a tree planted divided main street, you could be in outer Melbourne, or any where in suburban Australia.Birdsville, has lost its mojo, and the guilty party is the shire council. They have ruined its outback spirit. $75.00 for a Chinese made tacky T shirt ?