{"id":576735,"date":"2026-08-22T09:16:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T09:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/576735\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T09:16:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T09:16:19","slug":"auckland-bakery-famed-by-ryan-fox-damaged-in-attempted-break-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/576735\/","title":{"rendered":"Auckland bakery famed by Ryan Fox damaged in attempted break-in"},"content":{"rendered":"

An Auckland bakery that shot to prominence following Kiwi golfer Ryan Fox\u2019s British Open victory has been forced to close temporarily after an alleged break-in attempt left its doors damaged and a window smashed.<\/p>\n

Rollers Bakery co-owner Tamara Tait told 1News her business partner was alone inside the Northcote shop preparing sourdough and pastries when a man approached at around 3.30am on Saturday.<\/p>\n

The man allegedly tried to enter through a side door before moving to the front of the bakery, where Tait said he began trying to force his way inside.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe started ramming the door with his shoulder quite aggressively,” Tait said. <\/p>\n

She said her business partner barricaded himself inside using bread racks as the man continued trying to enter.<\/p>\n

“There was a broken window, and he did manage to smash the door pretty much off the hook.”<\/p>\n

The alleged offender eventually fled the scene without getting inside. Police arrived shortly afterwards.<\/p>\n

Nothing was stolen from the bakery, Tait said, and her business partner was physically unharmed in the incident. <\/p>\n

“He was a bit shaken up, but he handled it well,” she said. <\/p>\n

The damage forced Rollers to close for the day while broken glass was cleared and repairs to the door got underway.<\/p>\n

Tait said staff spent part of the morning outside the bakery explaining what had happened to regulars who arrived for their usual Saturday bread.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s been a lot of disappointed customers, but they understand. Everyone\u2019s been really, really nice,” Tait said. <\/p>\n

The incident followed a busy period for the small Northcote bakery, which attracted national attention after Ryan Fox visited fresh off the plane after his British Open victory in July.<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Fox<\/p>\n

Fox won the British Open in July. (Source: 1News)<\/p>\n

Rollers made the Kiwi golf champion’s favourite pie, featuring steak, bacon jam and cheese. <\/p>\n

Tait described the recent attention as a welcome \u201cwinter boost\u201d for the business, but believed the “very random, pointless attack” was unrelated. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt almost seemed like they were looking for a fight or just trying to cause damage,” she said. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt sucks because we\u2019re just kind of getting back to a little bit more normality and getting on top of our prep and stuff like that. So we were really looking forward to actually opening today.”<\/p>\n

Rollers would remain closed on Saturday before its usual Sunday-to-Tuesday closure, with plans to reopen on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Inquiries into the circumstances of the incident remained ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Auckland bakery that shot to prominence following Kiwi golfer Ryan Fox\u2019s British Open victory has been forced…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":576736,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[51,67,111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-576735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-auckland","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576735","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=576735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/576736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}