IGA Dee Why Beach: Jimmy, Monique Aschner to open IGA in former Austrian beer bar
Rumours that an IGA supermarket will replace an Austrian beer bar opposite Dee Why beach have been confirmed.
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A new IGA outlet is set to take over a prime beachfront location on the northern beaches.
Permission has been granted to allow a former beer bar to be transformed into a supermarket at Dee Why.
The Australian Beer Bar Restaurant on The Strand, the cafe strip opposite the beach, closed its door in April this year after a difficult trading period.
Now Jimmy Aschner, who used to own Asch’s IGA Xpress on Pittwater Rd, Collaroy for five years, and his wife Monique, has confirmed they will open the new supermarket at 13 The Strand.
“I’m very excited to present our latest project at Dee Why Beach,” Mr Aschner wrote on his LinkedIn profile.
“It took a while to get over the line but we got there in the end.
“Dee Why Beach will have a high quality, fresh food, local grocer they can call their own.”
Mr Aschner, along with the owners of the property, a local northern beaches family, applied to Northern Beaches Council to change the use of the site.
The council confirmed that on October 7, an external Complying Development Certificate approved the change of use of the “food and drink premise to a supermarket, including internal fit-out works”.
The council website noted that the cost of the works was $256,000.
The Aschners were the owners of the IGA Wahroonga Fresh supermarket, on the North Shore from November 2019 to April this year.
They now own the McMahons Point Grocer in Blue Point Rd, McMahons Point and the Coogee-Randwick Grocer.
The owner of the Austrian bar, Ernest Doppler, posted on Facebook in April that “it is with a heavy heart that we announce we are not renewing our lease”
“We have never faced such difficult trading times with Covid shut downs, lack of staff, difficulty to procure overseas beers and now the rising cost of food and we feel now is the right time to exit the market,” Mr Doppler wrote.
“It has been our pleasure to enjoy being part of the Dee Why scene and we have met so many amazing people.”
The new IGA is scheduled to open in late November or early December.
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