Located in the riverside village of Jugiong, the Long Track Pantry has opened and defied the trend to successfully establish a production factory to expand their growing business. Located only 2 minutes from the Long Track Pantry, the production kitchen produces and bottles all of the Long Track Pantry dressings, jams, preserves and frozen meals using locally sourced ingredients.
This expansion has seen employment at the Long Track Pantry and Jam Factory rise to around 106 Staff.
Owners, Juliet and Huw Robb have created an extremely positive and nurturing workplace at both the Factory and the cafe providing many children from the age of 11 with their first ‘real’ job. They come from surrounding areas including Jugiong, Cootamundra, Harden, Gundagai, Yass and Canberra just to be part of this highly successful team. They develop their hospitality skills quickly, learning in a fast-paced environment- kitchen preparation, waitering and waitressing, retail assistants, customer service, factory production, or the enviable position on a hot day of serving in the gelato bar.
The success of having a large, often young staff is to provide a well-structured, supportive and supervised workplace. To help develop this strong workplace culture, Juliet and Huw offer a variety of staff activities that the staff love to participate in.
These include staff social nights, well-being sessions, financial planning workshops, cooking lessons, art days, tennis at the local courts and inclusive family events. The Long Track Pantry are very involved with their local community and in just 2022 alone, supported over 18 different charities throughout New South Wales and Australia.
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