MIDTOWN — Pie Face is selling off the tools of its trade.
The Australian pie and coffee chain, which shuttered most of its New York City locations suddenly earlier this month, is auctioning everything from its ovens and coffee makers to its stainless steel trays at a sale in its 53rd Street and Broadway store Wednesday afternoon.
“I’m here for the oven," said Roberto Espiritu, the owner of La Pinata Bakery in Yonkers, who was one of several catering business owners browsing the items in the tiny storefront shortly before the auction began.
"It’s a special oven, good for crusty bread."
The sale was handled by auctioneer Michael Amodeo, which has already sold the equipment from two other shuttered Pie Face outposts in Manhattan.
The event is open to everyone, said Luc Perrez, who works for the auctioneer. But he added the type of equipment that will be sold will be most attractive to restaurant, cafe and bakery owners.
“The stuff is relatively new and it should be expensive but here people can get it for cheap,” he said.
"Don’t miss this sale. Everything like brand new,” Michael Amadeo's website read.
DNAinfo was the first to report earlier this month that Pie Face had quietly closed six of its seven New York locations. The only one that is still open is in Hell's Kitchen at 36th Street and Ninth Avenue
Kitchen equipment from one of the closed Midtown locations, at 729 Eighth Ave., and the Murray Hill one at 507 Third Ave. was auctioned earlier this week, according to Michael Amodeo’s website.
Wednesday's auction was set to start at 1 p.m., with kitchen tools sold in groups.
The auctioneer would set a starting price for each set of items, an employee said.
Pie Face did not immediately return calls for comment.
