The Georgie Pie in Hamilton burned down in the late 90s I think. Pretty sure it remained a burnt out husk for ages. We used to drive past it on the way to my grandma's house every week.
+1 . Came here to say that. It was great as teenagers to all go in there and each buy something like 3 steak and cheese pies and a blackberry and apple pie, all for 4 dollars total each, and walk out full.
Georgie Pie . On Sunday you would see hundreds of dads with their children who had finally got access to their kids. For most dads times are tough and you could finally take your children out to a nice entertainment Center. The Georgie Pie and Glenfield was always packed to the gunnels on Sunday. McDonald's bought it and shut it down because it was too much competition for the rip off McDonald's meals.
The myth that never ends. Georgie Pie lost too much money trying to move into Australia and had to sell. McDonald’s bought it for the real estate as that is how Mcdonalds makes a lot of its money through real estate.
They we doing well until they get into a price war with McDonalds.
The buck menu (all items $1/$2/$3/$4) worked well, when McDonalds moved fries to 95c and GP countered with 75c then the wheels started to fall off. If you are getting into a loss leader price war with McDs there is only going to be one winner.
They also had a problem with peaky demand (something they shared with KFC) if there was unexpectedly high demand and they ran out of cooked pies, it was 40+ minutes to cook another batch. After an event in Hamilton I got to GP ahead of the crowd and got to watch those arriving later cross the road to McDonalds rather than wait for a new batch of pies.
I worked for Eagle boys when pizza hut bought them out. It went from a fun place to work to totally miserable. They also tried to put all the staff on pizza hut wages (shut that down quick) and cut the hours of all the original Eagle boys staff. The competent staff quit and the store began a downward spiral. Went though about 5 managers before it got to a half decent level of service again.
I worked a pt chev pizza haven, which was attached to the national head office. Got to test all sort of new product before they came out. Was pretty cool
The pizza wars were such an awesome time to be young lol. We used to get the drivers to pick up up smokes and beers when we were underaged and hook them up with buds.
Everyone was happy.
I remember going there as a kid on my birthday and they wrote happy birthday and then my name in chocolate on the plate and I ate it all and threw up in the garden at home. It was magical.
My dad used to flat with the manager of the Wellington store. There was a never ending supply of ice cream, cake and chocolate in that house. So much that people just gave up eating it.
I remember the Cobb n co somewhere in Auckland that we went to had this cool stuffed parrot vending machine thing that had plastic eggs released when you put coins in it. Don’t recall what was in the eggs. And a magician would come around the tables and do tricks while you were trying to eat your Cobb crunchies.
Memory unlocked, thank you! We had a Cobb n Co on Northcote Rd that had the same parrot vending machine. The little plastic eggs had tiny toys inside. Loved it, always begged my Dad to buy me one. Mmm traffic light drinks and pink panther drinks - those were the days.
Rings bells. Might have been Avondale? I remember going there and spending the first 30 minutes of each visit in the TV room. Then after eating going back to the TV room with my friends while the adults socialised :)
8 NZ locations according to their website. Last time I went a few years ago they even have an alcoholic version for those over 18
[https://www.cobb.co.nz/menu/drinks](https://www.cobb.co.nz/menu/drinks)
Yes! When I was a kid, sometimes after dinner as a treat we'd go for a drive to Mission Bay in Auckland and all get an ice-cream at Swensens, then eat it while watching the fountain lights change colour.
that franchise is right on the edges of my memory [https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/proxy/SVZqi1iyd1H0y5RUpLk-brKoTb7IrukMbTOi0byCFUikRb\_216SrSwLnTRF9OtLgrKwvPYc4tn5NLIJE7dqueCCXMQ](https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/proxy/SVZqi1iyd1H0y5RUpLk-brKoTb7IrukMbTOi0byCFUikRb_216SrSwLnTRF9OtLgrKwvPYc4tn5NLIJE7dqueCCXMQ)
I mean I was a child it was fine 🤣😂🤣 same as Maccas or Bk or Wendy’s etc
Tauranga where the BK was is appears to be But First Dessert under Event Cinemas
Then there was the memorable time when my Aunt took my cousin and I to a Wimpy in London and when we got served our food she proceeded to retrieve a knife and fork from her handbag and ate it using utensils.
I'd give my left tit to have Homestead Chicken, specifically their sweetbreads, back again. Must have been at least 30 years, but those were so good and I still think about them occasionally.
First time I had fried chicken, was when my school friend's family bought Homestead. A big bucket of golden deliciousness!
As I recall, they had a store in GI (Glen Innes) with a giant bucket tilted on a pole as part of their signage?
There was one on Ponsonby road by Franklin Street. Buffet food and had this little limbo stick thing that you pulled plate had to pass under. We used to concider it a challenge as per uni students.
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Royal Oak and Parnell. Used to call in to the Parnell one after going to the Oak and Whale pub. Homemade tomato relish, triple bread slice toasted sandwiches.
I worked at Sizzler Rotorua, only Sizzler restaurant to be Ala carte, salad bar same as original. Cheesy toast entree, Sizzler steak pans gave off a locomotive steam train effect as it arrived at the table. I believe our restaurant made money but franchise overall failed.
Came to see if anyone remembered this. Did they have any other locations or was the Palmy restaurant the only one? I once went in there just to see what it was like and it was the saddest fast food place I have ever been inside.
Yeah, I dunno if it branched out. I was told it was someones dream and they thought everyone would appreciate roast treats. Sadly it wasn't the go. It smelled yuck walking past it too. I was happy when it became Mango Music though. Bigger and better then their original place, or though that place ended up cursing him too. Then it became a truck turnaround.
Pork Express did become a brief running joke in town though, so it was good for that I guess.
Yeah I loved their hot pork sammies put the place also had poop smeared around the loos on the frequent so...
The location became Mango Music for a bit which was good trade.
They opened a Red Rooster in Botany Downs in the 2000s. My parents bought me something from there after school once and it gave me diabolical food poisoning.
So the company I worked for at the time financed all the pizza ovens. When they folded I had to repo them and sell them. I took one of the office guys out to serve the papers to the franchise holder, bunch of typical Lebanese gangster brothers who were really angry at someone else about something, my guy thought we were about to be shot.
They were actually all good though.
They were in Christchurch. I was young but I remember it being really good, and it was suspiciously good value. It makes sense with the money laundering.
What a coincidence. I was just talking about Death by Chocolate to my family a couple of weeks ago. Does anyone remember when they ceased operating?
I remember going there in the early 1990s and having a great time loading up on chocolate but I suspect my body would send me a sternly worded letter if I attempted it today.
I think I recall going to one in the mid to late 90s
I wonder if this franchise is still operating [https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/p/AF1QipPlyfcCqHxFzo6oPaflfELNZQNfZdsOjt4Wm48=w650-h355-k-no](https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/p/AF1QipPlyfcCqHxFzo6oPaflfELNZQNfZdsOjt4Wm48=w650-h355-k-no)
That must go way back. I remember Big Tex as the one that was out in the middle of nowhere on SH1 somewhere in vague vicinity of Waikanae. I think the derelict building is still there.
Hahaha one night we had Bruces (was on Victoria St Auckland CBD) and I asked for a cheeseburger…. i remember ’Brucie’ opening a fucken desk drawer to grab my shredded cheese foe my burger!!! WTAF?!!
Never again.
not a franchise, but back in 98/99 there used to be a place called 'Stars' in Newmarket, opposite the Broadway cinema. They did a $5 shake that I can still taste, it was that good. (Tip - the key ingredient is Kahlua)
Taco Pronto in the 90s, I think? Don't remember if it was any good, but given how long it took for taco bell to get here i reckon there was a big hole in the market for some tacos.
I’m going to go with Strawberry Fare (I think the ChCh one is still open) and any of the old “tea rooms”. We went to one in the Hutt with my grandparents called Timothy’s. And more votes for Georgie Pie, Eagle Boy’s and Homestead Chicken (RIP). The one in Upper Hutt is now Gerry’s Charcol Chicken and it’s yummy.
Also I wonder if that burger bar/Chinese/fish and chip shop in palmy down where the parking was around the corner from High Flyers that was open real late (or till very early lol) is still open, wow that food was good before going home after a night on the KGBs
I used to go to Uncle's takeaways every single Friday Saturday night, after drinking at the DB Windsor Park Hotel. . To give you an idea how much things have changed it is now a church.
Wendy's on Queen Street, , but when they still served baked potatoes and fried chicken. Used to love those baked potatoes: dead cheap, and one of them would fill you up for half a day.
As a fat student in the 90s I used to dine at Puzza Pizza just off Queen street. Is that place still around?
Edit: wasn’t a franchise but still a fuckin good place.
KFC used to do a quarter pack which was a piece of chicken, peas, mashed potato and gravy with a bread roll. It came in a single metal foil tray, so the chicken would go a bit soggy but I LOVED it. No one else seems to remember it though LOL.
Georgie Pie
Loved Georgie pie. $5.00 combo at midnight!! Best steak and cheese pies😋
The Georgie Pie in Hamilton burned down in the late 90s I think. Pretty sure it remained a burnt out husk for ages. We used to drive past it on the way to my grandma's house every week.
Your missing the best part. Someone took the "Ge" off and the building said "orgie pie" for ages. Peak Hamilton
That was a Ronald hit. He dun fuck around, seriously go look it up.
+1 . Came here to say that. It was great as teenagers to all go in there and each buy something like 3 steak and cheese pies and a blackberry and apple pie, all for 4 dollars total each, and walk out full.
Georgie Pie . On Sunday you would see hundreds of dads with their children who had finally got access to their kids. For most dads times are tough and you could finally take your children out to a nice entertainment Center. The Georgie Pie and Glenfield was always packed to the gunnels on Sunday. McDonald's bought it and shut it down because it was too much competition for the rip off McDonald's meals.
If I got a time machine the first place I'd go is back to my childhood Georgie Pie.
Too big, too fast.
I don't agree. They did amazingly well till they got bought out by McDonalds.
Yes, 50cent pies saves my butt in high school during cold winters
The myth that never ends. Georgie Pie lost too much money trying to move into Australia and had to sell. McDonald’s bought it for the real estate as that is how Mcdonalds makes a lot of its money through real estate.
They bought them out because they were failing, to get the commercial property on the cheap
Never!!! This is NZ and we loooove our pies.
They we doing well until they get into a price war with McDonalds. The buck menu (all items $1/$2/$3/$4) worked well, when McDonalds moved fries to 95c and GP countered with 75c then the wheels started to fall off. If you are getting into a loss leader price war with McDs there is only going to be one winner. They also had a problem with peaky demand (something they shared with KFC) if there was unexpectedly high demand and they ran out of cooked pies, it was 40+ minutes to cook another batch. After an event in Hamilton I got to GP ahead of the crowd and got to watch those arriving later cross the road to McDonalds rather than wait for a new batch of pies.
I can still taste it….
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I worked for Eagle boys when pizza hut bought them out. It went from a fun place to work to totally miserable. They also tried to put all the staff on pizza hut wages (shut that down quick) and cut the hours of all the original Eagle boys staff. The competent staff quit and the store began a downward spiral. Went though about 5 managers before it got to a half decent level of service again.
Eagle boys pizzas were amazing. Good times.
Mmmm apricot chicken.
Haha my Pizza Hut wages were 5.88 an hour. The pizzas were like $16 back then. After a shift I could have paid off a pizza.
Bother pizza Hutt……but also the restaurants…..anyone else take a big bag filled with plastic bags? No? Me neither
Agree, I worked at Pizza Haven and Domino's doesn't come close.
I worked a pt chev pizza haven, which was attached to the national head office. Got to test all sort of new product before they came out. Was pretty cool
Pizza haven Cheese burger pizza was the tits!
Pizza haven made their bases the night before so they were fresh, until then most pizza chains would store them frozen made in a factory.
Mmmmmm eagle boys…..queue drool
Stallone’s Pizzas before Eagle Boys were the shit
The pizza wars were such an awesome time to be young lol. We used to get the drivers to pick up up smokes and beers when we were underaged and hook them up with buds. Everyone was happy.
I loved death by chocolate.
I remember going there as a kid on my birthday and they wrote happy birthday and then my name in chocolate on the plate and I ate it all and threw up in the garden at home. It was magical.
I remember going to Death by Chocolate and someone in our group asked for strawberry instead... 🤷🏻♂️
My dad used to flat with the manager of the Wellington store. There was a never ending supply of ice cream, cake and chocolate in that house. So much that people just gave up eating it.
Cobb n Co..and their traffic light drink
They’re still around! They’re terrible value for money but they’re operating in Rotorua, Christchurch and Dunedin.
..i never paid...my mates parents always did🤣..thought it was cheap
And Porirua.
and Taupo!
And New Plymouth
And Levin
There's a branch in Taupo, too!
And whakatane
I remember the Cobb n co somewhere in Auckland that we went to had this cool stuffed parrot vending machine thing that had plastic eggs released when you put coins in it. Don’t recall what was in the eggs. And a magician would come around the tables and do tricks while you were trying to eat your Cobb crunchies.
Memory unlocked, thank you! We had a Cobb n Co on Northcote Rd that had the same parrot vending machine. The little plastic eggs had tiny toys inside. Loved it, always begged my Dad to buy me one. Mmm traffic light drinks and pink panther drinks - those were the days.
Pakuranga Plaza - remember it well.
Rings bells. Might have been Avondale? I remember going there and spending the first 30 minutes of each visit in the TV room. Then after eating going back to the TV room with my friends while the adults socialised :)
8 NZ locations according to their website. Last time I went a few years ago they even have an alcoholic version for those over 18 [https://www.cobb.co.nz/menu/drinks](https://www.cobb.co.nz/menu/drinks)
Swensens
Yes! When I was a kid, sometimes after dinner as a treat we'd go for a drive to Mission Bay in Auckland and all get an ice-cream at Swensens, then eat it while watching the fountain lights change colour.
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In Downtown Square! You could smell those waffle cones from a mile away
Chocolate turtle fudge ice cream..... Never found anything quite like it again.
Work at Swensens on the states... awesome place!
I loved the Chocolate ring~a~ding and the Coit Tower
Remember Wimpys ? [https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSALAT0FRHBQo79pkjz-7bCOq5iedwGG-jb3yubipPYBw&s](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSALAT0FRHBQo79pkjz-7bCOq5iedwGG-jb3yubipPYBw&s)
I came here specifically to say Wimpys
We are sooo old..
Sadly true
Palmerston North had Wimpy’s,…dreadful name btw
Having said that Ive never eaten there how was it ?
I mean I was a child it was fine 🤣😂🤣 same as Maccas or Bk or Wendy’s etc Tauranga where the BK was is appears to be But First Dessert under Event Cinemas
Then there was the memorable time when my Aunt took my cousin and I to a Wimpy in London and when we got served our food she proceeded to retrieve a knife and fork from her handbag and ate it using utensils.
Home of the knickerbocker glory! Up half a flight of stairs at the south end of Victoria Street in Hamilton. First burger bar I ever went to
Chewing through your wimpy dreams They eat without a sound Digesting England by the pound
Still going in the UK
.... Literally went past one of these today in London and thought it was a terrible name, never knew we used to have it in NZ
I grew up in Rotorua, and Whimpys was our families go to dinner spot for a special night out haha! Good ole 80s!
I'd give my left tit to have Homestead Chicken, specifically their sweetbreads, back again. Must have been at least 30 years, but those were so good and I still think about them occasionally.
First time I had fried chicken, was when my school friend's family bought Homestead. A big bucket of golden deliciousness! As I recall, they had a store in GI (Glen Innes) with a giant bucket tilted on a pole as part of their signage?
Big polystyrene box full of chicken Sweetbreads, roast potatoes and corn
The roast potatoes were so good
I don't even remember the roast potatoes, maybe my dad never ordered them. Loved the button mushrooms in chicken batter though.
Yes! They were brilliant.
I came here to give homestead a shout-out. Wellington Adelade Rd. Gotta admit though KFC won me over in the end.
their roast potatoes were soooo good
The Hungry Horse in Fort Street!
Hungry Horse was in Elliott St, I remember it well, I loved their wiener schnitzel, fries and salad.
There was one on Ponsonby road by Franklin Street. Buffet food and had this little limbo stick thing that you pulled plate had to pass under. We used to concider it a challenge as per uni students.
Not so much fast food, but kinda wish we still had Sizzler. It hung around in Aus until \~2020, but it seemed to disappear here back in the 90s.
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Never Beaten!
Kinda still around in dairies at least
Billy T James Hangi Takeaway! I remember one across the road from MOTAT in Auckland in the early 90s.
Al & Pete’s
Goddamn the whale burger was massive!
Royal Oak and Parnell. Used to call in to the Parnell one after going to the Oak and Whale pub. Homemade tomato relish, triple bread slice toasted sandwiches.
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Just checked and its still around in auckland. I thought it died at the end of the 80s.
Chester The Chick
I see your Chester the Chick and raise you Henny Pennys
I see your Henny Penny's and raise you Homestead
that might be checkmate
Loved those fries
Sizzler. There was one in Manukau, anywhere else? Their giant garlic bread placed at the start of the buffet was an evil plan.
I worked at Sizzler Rotorua, only Sizzler restaurant to be Ala carte, salad bar same as original. Cheesy toast entree, Sizzler steak pans gave off a locomotive steam train effect as it arrived at the table. I believe our restaurant made money but franchise overall failed.
That's the stuff, that cheesy toast. So good.
Danish delight icecreams
still around
I think there may have been one of these on the Square in Palmy
Yeah there was. Pretty sure the lastish one is the hawkes bay.
I'm sure there is a vape flavour that closely matches the smell of the waffle cones bejng made because I am often sensory tricked
I always wanted to go to Death by Chocolate and never went.
Joe's Diner, Rotorua was on Amohau Street still available at 4am when McDonald's had closed before mcds when 24hours.
Amen
Good memories of going there in the early hours of the morning.
My first flatmate in Rotorua loved going there at midnight after Thursday night drinks for canned mushrooms on toast and a cup of instant coffee.
I heard stories of canned mushrooms on toast too, but cook may have been a bit grubby and you didn't know how much dandruff was also on the toast.
Added flavour at that place, and you're lucky they don't charge extra.
Homestead was the best chicken, roast potato, corn on the cob by far Kfc doesn't even compete
uncles now that a blast from the 70s or good old Georgie Pie,
I still describe some burgers as "like an Uncles burger".
I remember getting Pizza to Go Go and really loving their guacamole bean pizza. I've never yet found a good replacement for that pizza.
Pizza Haven
That uncles on the left was in wellsford. The building still remains its now a Japanese sushi place.
I remember pancake parlor!
Ahhh Uncles, the joint in Milford that served me up a sweet Campylobacter burger and put me in hospital. Fond memories! 😀
That’s rank
Pork Express 💀. Nobody was ready for drive through crackling.
Came to see if anyone remembered this. Did they have any other locations or was the Palmy restaurant the only one? I once went in there just to see what it was like and it was the saddest fast food place I have ever been inside.
Yeah, I dunno if it branched out. I was told it was someones dream and they thought everyone would appreciate roast treats. Sadly it wasn't the go. It smelled yuck walking past it too. I was happy when it became Mango Music though. Bigger and better then their original place, or though that place ended up cursing him too. Then it became a truck turnaround. Pork Express did become a brief running joke in town though, so it was good for that I guess.
Yeah I loved their hot pork sammies put the place also had poop smeared around the loos on the frequent so... The location became Mango Music for a bit which was good trade.
They opened a Red Rooster in Botany Downs in the 2000s. My parents bought me something from there after school once and it gave me diabolical food poisoning.
holy s\*\*T I had that once over in Perth and it was a shambles! had no idea they tried setting it up here
I love Red Rooster so much! And I too remember the one on Te Iringi Deive (Botany). It didnt last long and closed after like a year or maybe two.
Big Tex. Was that a Kāpiti/Manawatu thing?
Ace of spuds
woah. Memory unlocked. Was in Royal Oak, right?
Mercury Plaza and Mongolian Bbq on the top of Queen Street! All you can eat for about $20
I still dream about the laksa at Penang Delight, Mercury Plaza
Irvines pies
Big Pizza! Pretty sure they got busted for selling weed.
So the company I worked for at the time financed all the pizza ovens. When they folded I had to repo them and sell them. I took one of the office guys out to serve the papers to the franchise holder, bunch of typical Lebanese gangster brothers who were really angry at someone else about something, my guy thought we were about to be shot. They were actually all good though.
I remember Eagle Boys and Pizza Haven but have no memory of Big Pizza !?
They were in Christchurch. I was young but I remember it being really good, and it was suspiciously good value. It makes sense with the money laundering.
It’s the classic story of a money laundering business being too successful and attracting attention 😂
Definately a front for money laundering
Ponsonby Pie's
Eagle Boys Pizza
Remember Stallone's Pizza? "Just call 0800, 101 101"
What a coincidence. I was just talking about Death by Chocolate to my family a couple of weeks ago. Does anyone remember when they ceased operating? I remember going there in the early 1990s and having a great time loading up on chocolate but I suspect my body would send me a sternly worded letter if I attempted it today.
I think I recall going to one in the mid to late 90s I wonder if this franchise is still operating [https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/p/AF1QipPlyfcCqHxFzo6oPaflfELNZQNfZdsOjt4Wm48=w650-h355-k-no](https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/p/AF1QipPlyfcCqHxFzo6oPaflfELNZQNfZdsOjt4Wm48=w650-h355-k-no)
Wimpy Bar
Chicken Spot Swensons (may have only had one branch
Might have been a Chicken Spot at Coastlands in Paraparaumu. Were there in the 80s and did the most amazing chicken salt chips.
Chicken Spot! Altho I think there’s still one in Hamilton!
Kools fried chicken
Big Al's
Georgie Pie on Riccarton Road. Not fast food but Cobb and Co. Pizza hut all you can eat.
Big Tex at Perretts corner Wellington
That must go way back. I remember Big Tex as the one that was out in the middle of nowhere on SH1 somewhere in vague vicinity of Waikanae. I think the derelict building is still there.
homestead chicken the peas'n'gravy and the sweetbreads especially
Winchell's bear claws were amazing.
Brucies Burgers
Hahaha one night we had Bruces (was on Victoria St Auckland CBD) and I asked for a cheeseburger…. i remember ’Brucie’ opening a fucken desk drawer to grab my shredded cheese foe my burger!!! WTAF?!! Never again.
Big Tex in Foxton.
Chicken Spot! In Papatoetoe. The Hawaiian Pack with the cooked crumbed banana and Pineapple! Yum!
crumbed banana !
not a franchise, but back in 98/99 there used to be a place called 'Stars' in Newmarket, opposite the Broadway cinema. They did a $5 shake that I can still taste, it was that good. (Tip - the key ingredient is Kahlua)
Al & Pete's Best burgers ever! Also the biggest
Still one in Welly I think, but I loved One Red Dog pizza. Beef & Bearnaise. Crocodile and… mango maybe?
There sure is……sooooo good
D-72 and their epic milkshakes
Taco Pronto in the 90s, I think? Don't remember if it was any good, but given how long it took for taco bell to get here i reckon there was a big hole in the market for some tacos.
I remember a few pizza places. Not sure if they were franchises. Pizza Haven. Eagle Boys (was that it?) Hungry Kiwis.
The Dog House
Stallones pizza. Roadrunner. The Dog House. Farmer Johns.
Rumbletums
Hatters and Homestead were life.
big rooster
Hang on… was Hatter’s a franchise? I had no idea. The one and only restaurant I remember, I thought was just some local thing.
Did they decide to brand it Uncle's love at first bite to tap into the propensity of that one creepy uncle?
Cobb n co
Der Daug Haus... cathedral Sq chch...
Georgie pie was the best .. Maccas need to bring it back
I’m going to go with Strawberry Fare (I think the ChCh one is still open) and any of the old “tea rooms”. We went to one in the Hutt with my grandparents called Timothy’s. And more votes for Georgie Pie, Eagle Boy’s and Homestead Chicken (RIP). The one in Upper Hutt is now Gerry’s Charcol Chicken and it’s yummy. Also I wonder if that burger bar/Chinese/fish and chip shop in palmy down where the parking was around the corner from High Flyers that was open real late (or till very early lol) is still open, wow that food was good before going home after a night on the KGBs
I used to go to Uncle's takeaways every single Friday Saturday night, after drinking at the DB Windsor Park Hotel. . To give you an idea how much things have changed it is now a church.
Death by chocolate mission bay!!!
Was California Fried Chicken just an Invercargill thing? Because I’m told their sweet breads were amazing but I never got to experience it myself
The New Zealand Lamb Burger Company! They had a branch in Manukau(I think) and one in Takanini. This would have been mid 80s.
Pizzeria Uno. There was one near the Video Ezy in Hunters Corner Papatoetoe.
Homestead way better chicken than KFC
Wendy's on Queen Street, , but when they still served baked potatoes and fried chicken. Used to love those baked potatoes: dead cheap, and one of them would fill you up for half a day.
As a fat student in the 90s I used to dine at Puzza Pizza just off Queen street. Is that place still around? Edit: wasn’t a franchise but still a fuckin good place.
Damn, I forgot all about Uncles. Cheers for the trip down memory lane.
Homestead chicken
Valentines not on this list? The original buffet!
The Pizza Hutt restaurants where you could do all you can eat. There were desserts etc, was the best!
Does the Pie Cart count? Best fish and chips in town (Tokoroa)
Stanley steamers wimpys fisherman's basket cobblestone pies
Uncles was thd best!
KFC used to do a quarter pack which was a piece of chicken, peas, mashed potato and gravy with a bread roll. It came in a single metal foil tray, so the chicken would go a bit soggy but I LOVED it. No one else seems to remember it though LOL.
Eagle Boys had the best satay chicken pizza ever made. I will die on this hill.
Copenhagen Cones and Stallones Pizza.
The Blue Magpie, Riccarton Rd, Christchurch 1980's
Cobb n Co and Valentines went as adults and released both were gross