Jack's Bakery is a bakery on Hardy Street in Waterloo, Lower Hutt, holding a 4.6-star Google rating from its customers. Bakeries live by the morning bake: shelves are fullest early, and the popular lines — fresh bread, savoury pies, cream buns — tend to be gone well before closing time. Regulars learn the day's rhythm and time their visit around the trays they want. In New Zealand the pie is the honest measure of a bakery: pastry that shatters rather than sags, and a filling with some substance to it. When something has sold out by lunchtime, that usually says more than any sign in the window. On Hardy Street in Waterloo, Jack's is the kind of local bakery that rewards turning up early.