McDonald’s

The McDonald’s in the Melbourne Central basement food court station has a serving window facing onto the concourse at Melbourne Central station.

While the Box Hill Central outlet takes it a step further – a serving window facing into the paid area at Box Hill station.

McDonald’s logo on the station signage.

And the McDonald’s dining room has next train displays on the wall inside.

Red Rooster

It’s not just McDonald’s located in stations – Red Rooster at Southern Cross Station has a “Walk Thru”.

A glass wall separating their counter into paid and unpaid sections.

And a failure

At Melbourne Central Station there is also a KFC service window facing into the Elizabeth Street concourse.

But thanks to it being a dead end for passengers, it has since been abandoned.

(Also blocking the view of the Geoff Hogg mural.)

Footnote: an interstate example

Brisbane Central station also has a fast food outlet inside it’s paid area – a McDonald’s.

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At first I was looking at the most up to date imagery of the address – from May 2013.

I was able to step back in time to November 2009, where I found an abandoned KFC restaurant with a ‘For Sale’ sign out the front.

And by stepping back further to January 2008, the KFC store was still open for business, selling greasy chicken.

As for why I was chasing up KFC restaurants on Google Street View, you can find the end results in my post on closed down KFC stores of Melbourne.

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A few years ago I stumbled on a Kentucky Fried Chicken advertisement from 1982, that listed all 35 restaurants scattered around Melbourne, as well as the three in Geelong.

In the years since, some didn’t change at all – the store in Ashburton went almost untouched until it was demolished in 2009.

The same applies to the store in Newport, which closed down by the Google Street View came past in 2007.

Others have just received new KFC branding over the original building, the the KFC in Highett.

However not all stores have survived, such as the original KFC at Frankston, which became a Mexican restaurant.

Up in Ferntree Gully a succession of different restaurants have occupied the former KFC.

In Thornbury the KFC moved to a new store next door, with the old building being split into two, with Subway and Cheesecake Shop moving in.

However the strangest conversion was in Seaford, where a dry cleaner took over the tiny take-away only Kentucky Fried Chicken store.

The full list

Here is the full list of KFC stores from the 1982 advertisement:

• Cnr High St & Carool Road, Ashburton
• Cnr Burwood & Albert Roads, Auburn
• 289 Carlisle Street, Balaclava
• 129a High Street, Belmont
• 845 Whitehorse Road, Box Hill
• 460 Geelong Road, Brooklyn
• Cnr Centre Road & Audsley Street, Clayton
• 137 Bell Street, Coburg
• 29 Lonsdale Street, Dandenong
• Cnr Darcy & Doncaster Roads, Doncaster
• Cnr Bell & Albert Streets, East Preston
• 1293 Sydney Road, Fawkner
• 930 Burwood Highway, Ferntree Gully
• 281 Smith Street, Fitzroy
• 368 Barkly Street, Footscray
• 14 Beach Street, Frankston
• 257 Springvale Road, Glen Waverley
• Cnr Lower Heidelberg Road & Villa Street, Heidelberg
• 1121 Nepean Highway, Highett
• Cnr High & Derby Streets, Kew
• 157 Nepean Highway, Mentone
• Cnr Mt Alexander Road & Hall Street, Moonee Ponds
• 450 Melbourne Road, Newport
• 91a Keilor Road, Niddrie
• 431 Princes Highway, Noble Park
• 217 Melbourne Road, North Geelong
• Cnr Varman Court & Whitehorse Road, Nunawading
• 638 North Road, Ormond
• 379 Chapel Street, Prahran
• Cnr High & Lemington Street, Reservoir
• 387 Maroondah Highway, Ringwood
• Cnr Sims Street & Beach Road, Sandringham
• 109 Nepean Highway, Seaford
• Cnr Dandenong & Police Roads, Springvale
• Cnr Princes Highway & St Georges Road, Corio
• 429a Ballarat Road, Sunshine
• 389 St Georges Road, Thornbury
• Cnr Boronia & Wantirna Roads, Wantirna

More photos can be found on Flickr.

Footnote

The abandoned KFC restaurant pictured at the top of the page is located on Princes Drive in Morwell – it doesn’t feature in the above list.

And more photos

I found a photo of the Guildford KFC on the Daily Telegraph website, along with photos of the KFC Preston grand opening day at Broadsheet.

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Kentucky Fried Chicken was the first big chain to come to Australia, opening their first restaurant at Guildford in Sydney’s western suburbs in 1968. Now with over 600 KFC’s across Australia, the company adopted the KFC moniker in 1992 when they dropped the unhealthy sounding ‘fried’ bit from their name. Meanwhile back in 1982, Kentucky Fried Chicken they had a total of 35 restaurants scattered around Melbourne, and 3 more in Geelong.

McDonald’s took a bit longer to come to Australia, opening their first restaurant in the Sydney suburb of Yagoona in 1971, and over the next four decades the chain has grown to over 780 locations.

If we go back to 1982 we see Melbourne only had 33 McDonald’s restaurants – I’m not talking about the ones in the CBD – that is 33 in the entire metropolitan area! There was only a single McDonald’s in the CBD: located at 33 Swanston Street, the site now appears to be a KFC, with the current McDonald’s being a few shops south towards Flinders Street.

With the explosive growth in the number of fast food chains since the 1980s, is it any wonder that Australia overtook the USA as the world’s fattest nation in 2008?

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