Food, Beverages & Hospitality Business For Sale in Moorabbin Melbourne VIC

TOAST IT! is a well-established, dual-site hospitality business specialising in gourmet toasties and specialty coffee, trading from Moorabbin and Malvern East and offered for sale as a single package. This is a turnkey, branded café platform with strong revenue growth, secure lease tenure, and meaningful normalised owner earnings.

THE BUSINESS

TOAST IT! has established itself as a distinctive presence in Melbourne's daytime food retail scene. The concept is built on a deliberately narrow but well-executed offer: barista-grade specialty coffee paired with a signature range of gourmet toasted sandwiches. This focus has enabled the Business to deliver consistent quality, tight cost of goods, and a highly efficient operating model across both sites.

Moorabbin (Tuck Street) — the original store sits in a rapidly evolving industrial pocket that has shifted from traditional workshops and manufacturing into a thriving mix of breweries, eateries and creative businesses. The site benefits from very low rent relative to turnover and a renewed lease to April 2031, delivering exceptional occupancy cost and long-term tenure for an incoming owner.

Malvern East (Waverley Road) — the second store extends the brand into a busy residential and commuter catchment. A generous café footprint, strong local appeal and a lease to December 2028 plus a further 3-year option to 2031 make it an ideal complement to Moorabbin, capturing both neighbourhood and passing trade in a popular strip setting.

Together, the two venues form a cohesive, brand-consistent operation with shared systems, common suppliers, and a repeatable operating rhythm — a rare combination in a market where most independent cafés and QSR businesses are single-site and owner-dependent. The dual-site structure diversifies income and reduces reliance on any one location.

MENU STRENGTHS

TOAST IT! has built its identity around a focused, craveable and highly recognisable menu: premium gourmet toasties, kids’ toasties, quality coffee and a deliberately streamlined daytime offering.

The menu is centred on a signature toastie range prepared on premium sourdough, alongside gluten-free and vegetarian/vegan options. The model is simple to operate, fast to execute, easy to train and designed for high throughput across dine-in, takeaway and delivery.

Signature Toasted Sandwich Range — differentiated by considered flavour combinations, quality ingredients and consistent execution across both venues. The category benefits from strong customer familiarity, high perceived value, and excellent portability for takeaway and delivery.

Specialty Coffee Program — a genuine drawcard and a critical margin contributor. Barista-standard beverages, quality bean selection and consistent extraction underpin repeat weekday trade and reinforce customer loyalty. Coffee sits naturally alongside the toastie range, generating strong basket sizes at peak periods.

AWARD-WINNING SIGNATURE PRODUCT

TOAST IT! has recently been named the winner of Nova 100’s Best Toastie in Melbourne competition, featured on the Jase, Lauren and Clint Breakfast Show. With the program reaching more than one million listeners daily, the recognition provides significant third-party validation for the brand’s core product and strengthens its profile across the Melbourne market.

This is a powerful brand asset: a signature product with genuine public recognition, proven consumer appeal and a story that can continue to be leveraged through local marketing, social media, PR, menu positioning and future site expansion.

MENU ECONOMICS

• High gross margin categories (coffee and toasties) at the core of sales.
• Limited perishable inventory relative to full-service cafés, reducing wastage.
• Repeatable, standardised preparation that supports peak-hour throughput.
• Natural add-on opportunities across beverages, retail coffee beans and complementary snacks.
• Menu structure translates seamlessly to catering, corporate orders and delivery platforms.

DELIVERY SECTION

Delivery Is Already Working

• TOAST IT! is not entering the delivery market—it is already performing strongly within it.
• Both stores are heavily featured on Uber Eats and are reported to sit within the top 20% of store sales across Australia and New Zealand. The toastie-led menu is naturally suited to delivery: portable, fast to prepare, familiar to customers and capable of retaining quality in transit.
• This established delivery performance gives an incoming purchaser immediate exposure to a proven digital sales channel, while also presenting further opportunity to optimise menu engineering, promotional campaigns, customer retention, direct ordering and platform visibility.

OPERATIONAL SIMPLICITY

One of TOAST IT!'s most compelling attributes is the operational discipline that underpins both venues. The format has been intentionally engineered to be simple, repeatable and low-friction — attributes that materially reduce risk for an incoming owner and create a clear pathway to further scaling.

• Streamlined menu keeps food costs tight, wastage low, and service fast.
• Compact kitchen and service footprint suited to fast-turn, high-volume trade.
• Consistent processes and standards across both venues, enabling cross-site staffing and simplified training.
• Established supplier arrangements for coffee, produce, bakery goods and packaging.
• Trained team in place at both sites, including experienced baristas and floor staff.
• Documented recipes, systems and processes suitable for scale across further sites.
• Daytime trading hours that support a strong lifestyle balance for an owner-operator

For an owner-operator, TOAST IT! offers a business that can be stepped into on day one without needing to reinvent the format or rebuild operating procedures. For a restaurant group, the simplicity of the model supports further replication under existing management infrastructure without introducing operational drag.

HISTORICAL FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE

The Business has demonstrated consistent trading performance across both venues, supported by a loyal customer base and disciplined cost management. There is meaningful historical owner benefit through wages, superannuation, drawings and discretionary expenditure, with preliminary normalisation indicating materially stronger maintainable earnings.

Detailed financials — including profit and loss statements, coffee volumes, and reconciled sales reports — are available to qualified parties on request following execution of a Confidentiality Deed.

Return Profile — TOAST IT! presents a strong return-on-investment profile relative to comparable independent QSR opportunities in Melbourne. Both venues benefit from established trading patterns, recurring local customer flow, and a fixed cost base that has been rationalised through the vendors' ongoing operational refinements. The dual-site structure provides diversified income and mitigates single-location concentration risk.

LEASE TENURE

• Moorabbin (Tuck Street) — renewed lease to April 2031. Exceptionally low rent relative to turnover.
• Malvern East (Waverley Road) — lease to December 2028, plus a further 3-year option extending to 2031.
• Overall tenure secured across both sites to approximately 2031 — a rare position for a dual-site QSR opportunity at this price point.

GROWTH POTENTIAL

TOAST IT! is presented as a stable, profitable trading business in its current form. The operating model provides several clearly identifiable levers that an incoming owner-operator or restaurant group can pull to drive additional revenue and profitability. None of these growth pathways are speculative — they represent commercially proven strategies within the QSR category that have not yet been fully exploited by the current ownership.

IMMEDIATE VALUE LEVERS

• Extended weekday and early-evening trading — assess opportunities to trade beyond the existing daytime model and capture after-school, commuter, dinner and early-evening demand, particularly where local catchment conditions support it.
• Optimise an already high-performing delivery channel — build further on established Uber Eats success through menu engineering, strategic promotions, direct-order capability, customer retention and additional platform opportunities where commercially appropriate.
• Catering, events and corporate orders — develop toastie platters, coffee packages and group-order formats for nearby offices, schools, functions, sporting clubs and events.
• Menu extensions — selectively introduce complementary high-margin products, including cold drinks, retail coffee, snacks and grab-and-go items, without diluting the signature toastie proposition.
• Marketing and loyalty — use the Nova 100 award, brand recognition and existing customer base to build a formal loyalty program, customer database and targeted local marketing strategy.
• Further site rollout — leverage the existing dual-site format, systems, recipes, brand identity and award-winning product proposition to assess additional company-owned, licensed or franchised locations.

STRATEGIC UPSIDE FOR A GROUP BUYER — for a restaurant group or QSR operator, TOAST IT! presents a validated, replicable format with brand equity across two catchments. The concept is well-suited to further site rollout across metropolitan Melbourne and, ultimately, interstate expansion or licensed franchise roll-out. The tight menu, standardised systems and manageable footprint all support a franchise-ready or company-owned multi-site growth strategy — without the operational complexity of a full-service hospitality brand.

WHY THIS OPPORTUNITY

Melbourne's QSR and specialty coffee market is one of the most competitive in Australia. Genuinely turnkey opportunities — where the concept, the systems, the team, the locations and the financials are already aligned — are rare. TOAST IT! sits within that narrow category.

• A proven, profitable, dual-site QSR operation ready to trade from day one.
• A simple, disciplined operating model that is easy to learn, run and scale.
• Two established locations with genuine local presence in strong Melbourne catchments.
• Attractive lease profile, including exceptionally low rent at Moorabbin and secured tenure across both sites to approximately 2031.
• A strong, distinctive brand with social media presence and existing delivery partnerships.
• Significant fit-out and equipment base, with substantial replacement value in owned plant, leased equipment and stock on hand included in the sale.
• A defined pathway to organic growth and, for the right buyer, multi-site or franchised expansion.
• An indicative price point that positions the opportunity attractively against comparable single-site cafés and QSRs of lesser scale.

WHAT'S INCLUDED

Both stores, the TOAST IT! brand and intellectual property, documented systems and recipes, significant equipment and fit-outs, and stock on hand — all included in the package sale.

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Further financial details, site-by-site trading information, and the full Confidential Information Memorandum are available to qualified parties on enquiry.