SUMTHIN WE SHOULDA DONE LONG TIME AGO

Hey team just thought to let you know we’ll still be open Saturday and Sunday this weekend over at our Lorne Street store but will but closed on Monday. Have a happy safe long weekend and see you soon 🙌🏻👑

Question: We’re thinking of selling frozen dumplins so you can get your fix from the comfort of your own home. On a scale of 1-10, how good is this idea ? 🤔

Tag a mate now - and if they don’t respond in 5 minutes they gotta shout you some dumplins’

Important question: How long does it take for you smash these dumplins down ? 🤔

Happy Hump Day! What’s your fav @sumthindumplin combination?

Made fresh everyday. 🙌🏻 Tag a long lost lunch buddy to catch up at @sumthindumplin

It’s so good to see heaps of the regulars return to the cbd! 🙌🏻 Just letting you know that suburban deliveries will cease next week so tonight's the last night! Online pickup and CBD deliveries will continue though - Thanks for the support 😊

Yes!!!! 👏🏻Well done New Zealand. To celebrate level 2 this Thursday, we are going to give away a family box to 5 bubble heroes delivered to your door step personally. - Tag your mates and bubble heroes - Share on stories for an extra entry - Follow us @sumthindumplin Unlimited entries! Winners announced Wednesday mid-day! 🥳

I have faith that in time things will get back to normal. Perhaps even better. You can really see humanity banding together for the greater good. Around the cbd our online click and collect is picking up more and more. That goes for other retailers too. I hear the delivery drivers complain about no business hahaha well done guys! I’m not saying that we should all jump back to our normal lives in a heartbeat. Or we have defeated Covid19 and it’s collateral damage. What I am saying is, I am 100% certain in time, we will. Seeing the orders come through on our screen for a pickup is amazing. It genuinely makes my day to see you all, on my delivery runs in your local neighbourhood.It really comes to show how powerful we really are as individuals. I hope for all the young followers to take this chapter as a learning experience. Me included. In our lifetime, we will most likely experience a similar calamity again. Perhaps even multiple times. But if our ancestors can survive great wars that stretch over years. This? This is nothing. And so can we.

Not gona lie, I was spiralling out of control with anxiety about a month ago just before lockdown. Sleepless nights is an understatement. In a matter of days social movements about eating local and choosing in-house systems over offshore delivery services swept social media. The manic in me didn’t save me this time. In a way you all did. And not just for Sumthin Dumplin but all your local small businesses. Ive been thinking about what would truly get everything going smoothly again? And with the small voice I do have I’d like to say, it comes back to the same concept of staying home and staying safe for this following week. The sooner everyone can go back to their normal pre-lockdown daily routines safely, the sooner the market will go back to equilibrium. This is so important because I recognise a big majority of small local businesses simply don’t possess the resource to adapt this aggressively to the market. Thank you all so much for the support towards my family and I. To the regulars I bump into on my delivery runs. To my team for putting up with me and my crazy ideas. To Steph for doing such a phenomenal job on social, even though you never laugh. To Alister my accountant for always having my back. I genuinely believe everyone is doing their best to support local. Again, thank YOU! Shane