hot bread shop

English

Noun

hot bread shop (plural hot bread shops)

1. (Australia, New Zealand) A small bakery, typically a local family-run establishment.
   • 1994, Amy Witting, A Change in the Lighting, Sydney, page 157:

     'I have a job in hot bread shop. In a hot bread shop. I think I have enough English for the hot bread shop. You think?'

   • 2015, Colin W Wrigley, Harold Corke, Koushik Seetharaman, Encyclopedia of Food Grains, page 340:

     This type of modest-sized operation has reappeared in recent decades in the form of the franchised 'hot-bread shop,' often located in shopping centers. In this type of bakery, all goods are baked within the bread shop […]

   • 2018, Albert Trajtsman, Faraway Places, Australia:

     The two of them walk side by side down the street until they come to the hot bread shop. At the hot bread shop the fat guy goes in while Snatch waits outside and when he comes out he's carrying a paper bag.