{"id":323282,"date":"2026-03-11T00:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T00:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/323282\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T00:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T00:22:08","slug":"auckland-asian-fusion-bakery-luna-all-day-goes-into-liquidation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/323282\/","title":{"rendered":"Auckland Asian-fusion bakery Luna All Day goes into liquidation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Adam Botterill and Damien Grant of insolvency firm Waterstone were appointed liquidators of Luna Bakehouse Limited on March 9.<\/p>\n

Companies Office records show the company\u2019s shareholders put it into liquidation.<\/p>\n

But Inland Revenue had been seeking to liquidate the company after filing a High Court application on February 3.<\/p>\n

The application was set to be heard in late-March.<\/p>\n

Thi Linh Dan Nguyen and Mohammed Farhan Waniya are the company\u2019s joint directors and shareholders, according to the Companies Office.<\/p>\n

They have been approached for comment. <\/p>\n

Both Nguyen and Waniya also operated another company FNM Ltd, trading as Luna Cafe and Eatery, which was put into liquidation by Inland Revenue in February.<\/p>\n

Luna Cafe and Eatery operated in Auckland\u2019s CBD.<\/p>\n

The first liquidator\u2019s report for Luna Bakehouse is due March 16, while FNM Limited\u2019s is expected on March 31.<\/p>\n

The hospitality industry has been beset by high-profile closures over the past couple of years.<\/p>\n

Last year Auckland cafe Rupa\u2019s<\/a> closed after 70 years.<\/p>\n

The New Zealand franchise of Butlers Chocolate Cafe<\/a> also closed its five stores following a \u201cprolonged period of economic challenges\u201d after Covid-19.<\/p>\n

Popular Palmerston North eatery Cafe Cuba<\/a> went into liquidation in August with a tax bill of more than $1.5 million.<\/p>\n

According to Centrix data, the hospitality sector accounted for the second-highest number of liquidations in the 12 months to January 2026 with 382.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Adam Botterill and Damien Grant of insolvency firm Waterstone were appointed liquidators of Luna Bakehouse Limited on March…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323283,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5263,151180,51,32164,138,5972,11775,5275,2219,296,2739,10286,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-323282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-all","tag-asianfusion","tag-auckland","tag-bakery","tag-business","tag-day","tag-french","tag-goes","tag-gone","tag-into","tag-liquidation","tag-luna","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}