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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.
KFC entered the New Zealand market in August 1971, with the opening of its first restaurant in Royal Oak, Auckland.By September 1973, KFC had opened nine restaurants - four in Auckland and one each in Hamilton, Rotorua, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin.
McDonald's Restaurants (New Zealand) Limited [1] (also trading as "Macca's" [2]) is the New Zealand subsidiary of the international fast food restaurant chain McDonald's. Its first location opened in 1976. [4] In 2017 McDonald's New Zealand had 167 restaurants operating nationwide, serving an estimated one million people each week. [2]
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.
Georgie Pie was the brainchild of Tom Ah Chee, who opened New Zealand's first supermarket (Foodtown Ōtāhuhu, 1958). Ah Chee had made an unsuccessful bid for the New Zealand rights to McDonald's before deciding to establish his own fast food restaurant chain. [7] The first restaurant was opened in Kelston, Auckland in 1977. In 1994, plans were ...
Thomas Henry Ah Chee, known as Tom Ah Chee, was born on 4 January 1928 in Auckland, New Zealand, the second child of Clement Calliope Ah Chee, a New Zealand-born Chinese, and his wife May Yuk Doo. His father was a grocer, working in the family business established by Chan Dah Chee, Tom's grandfather, who had emigrated to New Zealand in 1867.
[2] [3] New Zealand's earliest Bellamy's in 1854 was a lean-to attached to the rear of the General Assembly House, Auckland. [4] In 1854 the first Bill passed by the New Zealand Parliament was the Licensing Amendment Act (informally called the "Bellamy's Bill") that permitted the sale of alcohol on the premises of Parliament.
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]