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In June 1976 the first McDonald’s restaurant opened in New Zealand, in Porirua near Wellington. However, there had been some hesitancy when the idea was proposed by two New Zealand businessmen about expanding the franchise to New Zealand, owing to the small local population.
McDonald's Plaza in Oak Brook, Illinois, home to company headquarters from 1971 to 2018 New Zealand's first McDonald's restaurant, in Porirua in September 1976. In 1970, the first restaurant outside of Northern America opened in San José, Costa Rica. [20] In 1971, [21] McDonald's opened its first European restaurant in Zaandam, Netherlands. [22]
New Zealand June 7, 1976 Porirua Central, Wellington [24] 170 (source: Corporate McDonald's December 31, 2023) [12] 30,428 Founded in New Zealand by Wally and Hugh Morris [25] First South Island restaurants opened at Linwood and Merivale, both Christchurch, on November 3, 1987. [26] See McDonald's New Zealand. 21 Switzerland October 20, 1976 Geneva
Cobb & Co. is a New Zealand family restaurant chain. [1] [2]It is New Zealand's oldest surviving family restaurant chain, [3] having opened its first branch in 1973. [4] Its name derives from the Cobb & Co stagecoach business originally founded in Australia in the 19th century by Freeman Cobb, although the chain has no direct historical connection with that company.
He has owned or operated multiple restaurants across Europe, North America and Asia. This is a list of the notable such restaurants, including many which have since closed. As of late-2024, the organisation lists 90 restaurants currently open worldwide. Ramsay founded his first restaurant group, Gordon Ramsay Restaurants, in 1997.
In 1977, the building was acquired by the newly established McDonald's New Zealand and was converted into a fast food restaurant. It was the first McDonald's restaurant in Auckland and only the second in New Zealand (behind Porirua). [1] The restaurant closed in 2020 and relocated two doors down the road. [2]
Fish and chips is the most popular takeaway food in New Zealand. Food historians have not been able to pinpoint exactly when the meal became an established part of New Zealand cuisine, but all recognise that the first fish and chips shops were introduced by British settlers before World War I . [ 48 ]
The Gough Map, dating to about 1360, is the oldest known road map of Great Britain. In 1500, Erhard Etzlaub produced the "Rom-Weg" (Way to Rome) Map, the first known road map of medieval Central Europe. It was produced to help religious pilgrims reach Rome for the occasion of the "Holy Year 1500".