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ab & 2 c: Yagoona (Sydney) in 1971.
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a. Freshwater Place (Melbourne) in 1921.
Sat.12.6.21 Melbourne 'Herald Sun' A popular city McDonald’s has been closed for deep cleaning after a Covid positive person visited the restaurant.
A McDonald’s spokeswoman confirmed a positive case visited the Freshwater Place restaurant, a between 5.10pm and 5.20pm on Friday June 11.
The spokeswoman said the premises is a Tier 2 exposure site meaning anyone who visited during times listed should urgently get a COVID-19 test and isolate until they receive a negative result.
“The health and safety of our people and our customers is our priority. We have closed the restaurant for deep cleaning and notified employees in accordance with the Victorian Department of Health’s directions,” she said.
McDonald's in Freshwater place was closed for a deep clean. Picture: Supplied
The Herald Sun witnessed the store being closed just before 2.30pm today. An employee confirmed they had been instructed to conduct a deep clean.
It’s not yet known if the closure is related to Saturday’s new mystery case – a man who lives in the City of Melbourne.
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McDonald's to open new Yagoona outlet 50 years after launching at the same site. SCOTT BOLLES July 16 2021
Macca's opened its first Australian outlet in Yagoona in 1971. Photo: McDonald's
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With social media groups documenting the preservation of early Pizza Hut and KFC outlets in Australia, the grand-daddy site of the US fast food invasion is receiving a reboot from McDonald's.
The Yagoona plot in Sydney where Macca's opened its first Australian outlet in 1971 closed in 1994. An insurance company took up residence for a time, but in recent weeks construction work has started on the vacant block, with some tell-tale McDonald's signage.
Dignitaries and McDonald's executives at the opening of the brand's first Australian restaurant in Yagoona. Photo: Roderick John Macrae/Fairfax Media
McDonald's HQ confirmed it will open a new restaurant at the original site later this year, which happens to coincide with the first opening exactly half a century ago.
It won't replicate the early 1970s, an age of pebblecrete and ubiquitous arches (not necessarily of the golden variety). But there will be a nod, with a display of images of the restaurant, a Macca's timeline and a Happy Meal wall featuring toys from over the years.
Sydney Morning Herald columnist Leslie Walford attended the first launch. He seemed blissfully unaware of some of the McDonald's quirks that have since become part of our everyday life and lexicon. Indeed, much of his report was devoted to the historic lineage of the burger and seasoned raw meat introduced by the Tartars.
The front counter 50 years ago. Photo: Fairfax Media
The USA ambassador of the day, Walter Rice, was at the launch, along with a mystery clown "holding balloons and wearing red and yellow striped stockings". Evidently, there wasn't a Hamburglar in sight.
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Thurs.17.6.21 Melbourne 'Herald Sun' 50 cent Big Macs are a steal Hamburglar would be proud of. CAMERON ENGLAND
MCDONALD’S will cut the price of a Big Mac to just 50c on Friday, as it celebrates 50 years of operation in Australia.
The company, launched by Ray Kroc in Des Plaines Illinois in 1955, opened its first site in Australia in the Sydney suburb of Yangoona in 1971, and has grown to more than 1000 sites nationally.
McDonald’s Australia chief executive Andrew Gregory has been on the company’s board for 25 years and said there was a lot to celebrate.
“It’s a chance for us to say thank you to our customers for supporting us through all of this time and also thanks to our franchisees and employees,” he said.
“On Friday we’ve got the opportunity for customers to buy a Big Mac for 50c if they use the mymacca’s app.
“Then over the next couple of months we’ve got a whole range of different promotions celebrating our core menu, and also teaming up with some iconic brands in Australia to produce a whole bunch of different limited edition collectibles.
“You’ll see them come out over the next 10 to 12 weeks.’’
Mr Gregory said McDonald’s Australia had been an innovator within the global firm, with the McCafe – the first of which was opened in Melbourne in 1993 – now representing the gold standard for Maccas around the world with more than 900 outlets in Australia. “It’s now the way that the McDonald’s business, across the 100 or so markets, sells coffee,’’ he said.
Mr Gregory said McDonald’s had also pioneered the use of drive-through outlets in Australia, which were now widespread. He said McDonald’s had injected more than $9bn into the Australian agriculture sector over its 50 years.
McDonalds: Big queues as fans snap up 50c Big Macs for birthday celebrations. Kiel Egging June 18, 2021 Knox Leader
WATCH: Big queues are forming at McDonalds stores around Melbourne as fast food lovers snap up cheap Big Macs.
video: Queues at Wantirna Maccas Drive-Thru. Fast food fans pack Wantirna's McDonalds as they offer 50c Big Macs to celebrate 50 years in Australia on June 18, 2021.
Maccas lovers are packing out their local restaurants to snap up a cheap burger to celebrate the fast food chain’s milestone event in Australia.
The golden arches are offering 50c Big Macs to celebrate its 50th anniversary of opening its first Australian store on June 18, 1971.
The offer, which runs until midnight, is limited to the 500,000 customers around the country through its MyMaccas app.
McDonald's is offering 50c Big Macs to celebrate its 50th birthday in Australia on June 18, 2021. Picture: McDonald's
At Wantirna’s McDonalds’s restaurant on Wantirna Rd and Mountain Highway, drive-through queues stretched to up to 10 cars at a time around 1.30pm.
Other customers opted to park in the carpark and head in store to avoid the queues.
Heathmont customer Andrew said he’d been waiting for about five minutes to get to the drive-through speaker and dropped in especially to get his cheap burger.
“I was in the area … I’m starting to think if it worth it,” Andrew said.
“It’s a bit ridiculous, but it doesn’t worry me too much.”
Wantirna’s Ben, 19, ordered online in advance to beat the queues.
“It’s a cool deal, so I thought why not take advantage,” he said.
“I’ve been following online and some places have been pretty bad (with queues)”.
The fast food giant opened its first Australian restaurant in Yagoona, NSW in 1971, and now has 1009 restaurants across the country.
McDonalds opened its first Victorian restaurant in Glen Waverley’s on September 12, 1973, at the corner of High St and Springvale Rd.
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McDonald’s is opening 100 new stores across Australia with thousands of jobs, new stores. Andrew Koubaridis June 26, 2021 News Corp Australia Network 92 comments
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The lust for burgers is only getting bigger with McDonald’s planning to open 100 new stores and inject $600 million into the Australian economy.
The fast food chain will go on a building spree in the next three years with new restaurants across Australia - and in doing so will employ an extra 12,000 people.
The first 27 restaurants are in the planning stages and are being rolled out this year across the country - seven each in Queensland and New South Wales, six in Victoria, three in South Australia and four in Western Australia.
The new restaurants will have heavy focus on three key areas.
Josh Bannister, Senior Director of Growth Platforms at McDonald’s, said drive through, digital and delivery were already popular with consumers and they would continue to be a big part of the new McDonald’s in the future.
About 12,000 new jobs will be created in 100 new McDonald’s stores Picture: Sarah Matray
“Our customers challenge us to evolve everyday and really push us, they are a huge part of our brand, as are our franchisees, they are crucial to our success,” Mr Bannister said.
“The convenience of digital [contactless service in store] delivery and drive through have really heightened during the Covid period and those channels allow customers to access Maccas on their own terms...we do expect to continue to see demand in these areas.”
Mr Bannister said McDonald’s was celebrating its 50th anniversary this year and was looking ahead “with great anticipation towards the next 50”.
“We have some fantastic growth ahead of us.”
Customers have flocked to delivery and drive through options during the pandemic.
McDonald’s was celebrating its 50th with a series of promotions, including changes to its menu with new burgers and desserts.
“We also have some great collaborations with well known Australian brands as well as the menu items,” he said.
McDonald’s is the largest employer of young people in Australia, with every new restaurant creating 120 new jobs for its local community.
Almost 3000 new jobs will be created in the 27 communities the new restaurants are opening in this year.
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NSW
McDonald’s Unanderra, Wollongong, opening early July
McDonald’s Rhodes, Sydney, opening late July
VICTORIA
McDonald’s Wollert North, Melbourne, opening later this year
McDonald’s Armstrong Creek, Geelong, opening later this year
QUEENSLAND
McDonald’s Andergrove, Mackay, opening later this year
SOUTH AUSTRALIA
McDonald’s Nuriootpa, opening later this year
McDonald’s Bolivar, opening later this year
WESTERN AUSTRALIA
McDonald’s Malvern Springs, opening later this year
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