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Why didn’t someone think of this earlier?
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someone → think → this
That was the general reaction when Andreea Corban and Ilias Vitkind opened Luma in Mooloolaba in December 2025.
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Corban → open → December
We have self-serve yoghurt, self-serve acai – even self-serve fries.
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We → have → yoghurt
“I really don’t know,” Corban says.
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Corban → know → ?
Between us we have around 20 years of knowledge of experience in gelato back in Italy and also here, in Australia.
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we → have → Australia
“You get to know how customers respond to gelato, and we’d often find they’d maybe want a little bit more sauce, for example, or a little bit less.
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they → get → example
And when we’d make it for ourselves we’d get it just right.
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it → make → ourselves
“So we wanted to make this simple concept that customers could really engage with.”
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customers → want → that
So much so that just 10 months later, Corban and Vitkind have opened a second shop in Newstead in the LIV Anura building on Skyring Terrace.
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Corban → open → Terrace
The shop presents similarly to its Mooloolaba sibling but designer Barbie Payton of ONYX Studio has expanded on the baby blue colour scheme of the original store with cream vertical finger tiles and banquette seating.
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Payton → present → tiles
The flash treatment is complemented by vintage pendant lights and brass fixtures.
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treatment → complement → lights
At the back is the main event: six Chinese-made Space self-serve ice cream makers that Luma has tweaked for gelato, each pumping out two flavours.
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each → make → flavours
“It’s more premium in a sense because it hasn’t been made offsite,” Corban says.
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Corban → ’ → sense
“We pasteurise it, put it in the machine and when you press the handle, it’s essentially fresh-made by the customer.”
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it → pasteurise → customer
Current flavours include fior di latte, Italian hazelnut, Italian pistachio, Biscoff cheesecake, salted caramel, organic minty matcha (a collab with organic tea brand Little Wildling Co), zuppa inglese (inspired by the traditional Italian dessert), tiramisu, peanut butter, dairy-free chocolate, dairy-free mango and dairy-free strawberry.
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flavours → include → dessert
Corban says to expect two or three of these to change regularly going forward.
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two → say → these
The consistency is slightly softer than typical gelato – all the better to get it out the machine – and the flavour on the milder side, perhaps to accommodate for the 30 toppings on offer.
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consistency → get → offer
These, also, will rotate, Corban says, but might include fresh strawberries, roasted almonds, Hershey’s chocolate sauce and sour cherry jam.
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Corban → rotate → strawberries
Luma opened on October 15 and – perhaps to nobody’s surprise – it has been packed for most of its opening hours ever since.
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it → open → hours
“We didn’t quite know what to expect until we saw it with our own eyes,” Corban says.
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Corban → know → eyes
“We’ve had lines and good vibes, and the radio coming in.
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radio → have → lines
“We knew we had a good product and we have a beautiful shop, so [it’s gratifying] to be busy.”
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it → know → shop
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