From 1 October 2026, card surcharges are being phased out across Australia. You may start seeing businesses changing their payment systems, removing surcharge notices or reviewing their pricing as the new rules come into effect. For us at Those Little Poffertjes, there really isn’t much to change. We have always absorbed our card-processing fees ourselves. If your Poffertjes were $11.50, you paid $11.50. No extra percentage at the checkout. No little surprise when you tapped your card. No...

When we applied for the inaugural Frankston Fire Festival, one of the questions was: How will you fit into the fire theme? My answer was apple crumble. And the event organisers seemed to see the vision in it too — something warm, seasonal, comforting, and just a little unexpected. Something that could add to the feeling of the event, not just sit on the menu as another topping. Not the usual tropical, summery, colourful kind of topping. Not mango, pineapple, berries, or all the things that...

There’s a big difference between something that tastes like maple… and something that actually is maple. At Those Little Poffertjes, we’ve always chosen the real thing. Not a flavoured syrup, not a shortcut—pure maple syrup. It costs more, it’s harder to work with, and most people don’t realise the difference until they try it properly. But once they do, there’s no going back. That decision led us to sourcing through Honest to Goodness, because if you’re going to do maple, you may as well do...