Napoleon’s Bakery

Really limited selection at about 9pm… and annoying that you have to order at the food counter where you can’t even see what you want. I ditto the other review about pricing. Bad slow service! Go to Mililani, the workers there are much more helpful.

Dear Zippys,
Your maple bars are the bomb. Would you please consider putting some slices of bacon on them and selling it that way? This would make my year.
Cherry napples are also bomb, but seem to be shrinking over the years despite prices going up.
My daughter’s favorite are the glazed donuts with the chocolate in the middle.

Napoleon’s Bakery is what you’ll find in every Zippy’s location. This bakery is in Waipio Gentry next to the Tesoro gas station. FSH is next door.
There’s ample parking in the lot surrounding the facility. With the exception graduations and funerals, you can usually find a stall fairly easily.
A fairly decent array of pastries and other items:
glazed doughnut
sugar doughnut
chocolate centered doughnut
chocolate cake doughnut
sugar cake doughnut
white powered sugar cake doughnut
flaky doughnut
sugar flaky doughnut
custard danish
cherry danish
blueberry danish
maple bar
doughnut holes
apple napples
chocolate napples
blueberry napples
cherry napples
coconut napples
cinnamon paw
butterhorn
cinnamon roll
twist doughnut
long johns
malasadas
cream cheese squares
cream puffs
apple pie
banana cream pie
chocolate cream pie
custard pie
pumpkin pie
lemon meringue pie
jello cream pie
boston cream pie
chantilly cake
dobash cake
dream cake
peach bavarian cake
guava chiffon cake
haupia cake
The list goes on…
Staff: Decent. Fast and friendly (most of the time)
Prices: On the higher end… as is Zippy’s. But for sheer convenience I come here for pastries. Grocery stores (Foodland, Times, etc) are cheaper.

It was an almost 5 star experience for me…
As most people know, Napoleon’s is the bakery supporting Zippy’s. Now, I normally will order dessert items after my meal at Zippy’s but on this occasion, it was 5 am and we were getting pastries and a cake.
My friend and I looked in the display cooler and nothing had been put into the display cooler yet. Here’s my quick run down of the transaction… and why it’s not 5 star experience.
Friend: «how much is that cake? The one that says happy birthday?»
Girl behind counter: «That’s just a display cake. It’s not for sale.»
Friend: «Ok, so what kinds of cakes do you have and can we get one?»
Girl: Opens refrigerator: «We have all different ones»
Me: «How much do they cost?»
Girl: taking out the dobash chocolate cake. «There are different prices»
Me: «ok, so the one that you are holding– how much is that one?»
Girl «It’s a chocolate dobash cake»
Me: «How much does it cost»
Girl: «$ 12.50»
Me: «What other cakes do you have?»
Girl: Points at refrigerator
Friend: «What is that white one?»
Girl: Taking it out: «This is chocolate haupia»
Me: «Great, let’s take that one»
We still didn’t know the price…
We did however get our pastries for breakfast and pay for the cake in a timely manner.
And of course I will be back because it is the bakery at Zippy’s…and they were open at 5am…
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