The owner of Sandringham cafe WKA initially hails from Hokitika, but came to Auckland for the bright lights of the big city – strange then that there was nothing ‘big city’ about little cafe WKA, in fact it felt more like it too had come straight out of Hokitika, but rather 1950’s Hokitika! A dated tearoom at best, WKA was suffering a major identity crisis, and struggled to pull in the punters now accustomed to trendy modern cafes.