AS THE rest of the country fights over toilet paper and pasta, the city of Bathurst has rallied to keep one of its favourite businesses, donating 51 bags of flour to keep them going.
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With stockpiling and food hoarding becoming the norm, Melissa Kelly, who owns Bake, Take & Tea, found her shop fresh out of flour and unable to make her fresh scones, which are the core of her business.
The store uses, on average, four packets of flour a day making its scones and with a two-packet per person limit on flour, Mrs Kelly knew she was in trouble.
"Scones and tea, that's what we are known for, that's our business" Mrs Kelly said.
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In desperation, on Tuesday night she put a call out on Facebook alerting the community of her plight, and asking people to help out.
In the post, Mrs Kelly asked the community to "help save Bake Table & Tea".
"Self Raising Flour has joined the toilet paper saga which means we may not be able to make our daily batches of scones," the post read.
"We use Aldi Self Raising Flour and we use four bags a day for our delicious scones. Aldi has none but will be getting more in the morning and have a two-bag limit.
"So ... I will pay double for a bag of their flour if you can buy two bags and bring them in to the shop. Please help us and keep us open."
Mrs Kelly said the fact she has 15 employees relying on her for income,weighed heavily on her mind when she put up the post.
"Every year for the past five years I've brought 24 bags of flour from Aldi once a week, which usually lasts the five days," Mrs Kelly said.
"When I went there this week there was none and I was told when they got some I could only have two bags."
Mrs Kelly said she didn't know what she was going to do.
"I still have to run a business, 15 staff rely on this business and I needed to keep it going," she said.
Mrs Kelly said she was completely overwhelmed with the response from both the community, and other businesses after posting about the shop's situation.
"The Bathurst RSL donated one of the big bags, and Blayney Foods donated the other one," she said.
All the smaller bags came from people in the community just wanting to help out.
Mrs Kelly said it made her feel heartened. "I was gobsmacked," she said.
She said despite the craziness and uncertainty seen in recent days, community spirit was strong.
"This is still a community. It goes to show people will pull together to help each other out," she said.
"It really is amazing. I never expected this response."
