By RNZ
Several thousand pastries and loaves of bread were destined for the bin until Dough Boys Bakery in Auckland put out a call to the community to help.
Goods had been baked and were ready to go to farmers' markets across Auckland starting at 7am this morning, until an announcement by Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern at 9pm last night put Auckland into alert level 3 from 6am today.
"It was a nightmare. We couldn't think of anything worse," sales manager George Ring said of the announcement.