Takeout Kids returns for season two. In episode one we meet Priyan, of Tāmaki Makaurau’s Sandringham Bulk Foods & Rocky’s Superette.

Building on the success of its 2022 launch, Takeout Kids returns for a second season, following five tamariki and rangatahi growing up in the small businesses owned by their immigrant families. The latest season features young people from across Aotearoa as they sling doughnuts at an Auckland night market, scan the walls of polish lining their mum’s nail salon, serve hungry customers, and more.

The first young person featured in the second series is Tāmaki Makaurau’s Priyan, whose jobs around his family’s two stores – Sandringham Bulk Foods and Rocky’s Superette – include taking care of the counter and stocking shelves alongside his mum, dad and baby sister. We meet Priyan as he starts his first week of school, discovering a new world outside of the superette aisles.

School isn’t as straightforward as the family business – lessons in ABCs are now added to Priyan’s responsibilities, though cricket practice with Dad, in anticipation of growing up to become a wealthy athlete with a Lamborghini, is a lot more fun. Best of all, there’s a toy shopfront in the classroom where he can play the pretend version of the job his parents do for real.

Takeout Kids is made with the support of NZ On Air.