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I thought they had actually gone broke years ago. Can’t remember the last time I saw one.
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Anyone know if the Black Stump restaurants are still alive ?
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Do you mean the Ettamogah Pub?
The qld one on the m1 in the glass house mountains has been renamed the banana bender mixing a kind of Hawaiian style?
An eyesore imho but never stopped there since reopened
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THE PUB FORMERLY KNOWN AS ETTAMOGAH IS BACK - PubTIC
Following years of legal tussles, the Sunshine Coast’s legendary ‘Ettamogah’ pub has been transformed with a new image and essential new look, leading to its pending wholesale mandated relaunch. The famous Ettamogah pubs were inspired by the madcap antics in Kenneth Maynard’s popular cartoon...
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Do you mean the Ettamogah Pub?
The qld one on the m1 in the glass house mountains has been renamed the banana bender mixing a kind of Hawaiian style?
An eyesore imho but never stopped there since reopened
The history here
THE PUB FORMERLY KNOWN AS ETTAMOGAH IS BACK - PubTIC
Following years of legal tussles, the Sunshine Coast’s legendary ‘Ettamogah’ pub has been transformed with a new image and essential new look, leading to its pending wholesale mandated relaunch. The famous Ettamogah pubs were inspired by the madcap antics in Kenneth Maynard’s popular cartoon...
Not that one. There used to be a chain of Black Stump restaurants in NSW at least about 40 years ago. Specialising in steaks.
VC's lot probably put them out of business.
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With VC, they will be back in favour: you need to eat for a long time with the queue at the recharging stations?Not that one. There used to be a chain of Black Stump restaurants in NSW at least about 40 years ago. Specialising in steaks.
VC's lot probably put them out of business.
Better make "hard as wood" fake meat for that purpose: business opportunity?
I seen one about 25 years ago. I think they went bust. Not sure if lonestar is still around. But that closed up shop round my way as well.Not that one. There used to be a chain of Black Stump restaurants in NSW at least about 40 years ago. Specialising in steaks.
VC's lot probably put them out of business.
Interestingly enough a few recent attempts at chains I have seen failing for obvious reasons.
Its rare to get a good steak out of Sydney with someone that knows how to cook it.
The other thing I see a lot of is that people will spend $350k on a fit out. Then employ a 14 year old that doesn't know how to cook.
You need very tight systems to do that.
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The Pizza Hut eat-in model fed my kids for a few years. But they saw the change; clearly the cardboard (in a) box model pushed them out. I wonder how the eat in (its not 'dine in') set-ups for KFC and McDo's will last, post Covid. Takeaway, and Apps and innumerable gig economy desperados doing delivery, seem to have changed things.
Dark kitchens, too, have a much better cost recovery; restaurants will have to morph.
I'll give it a go next time I'm there. I don't eat a lot of meat anymore. One of the main reasons is that its been crap the last decade.London Hotel, Balmain
Dark kitchens, too, have a much better cost recovery; restaurants will have to morph.
As for dark kitchens. I know of a Chinese guy that has an off the grid dark kitchen. He has all the Chinese students on social media. I think snapchat or something. And he posts lunch and dinner specials. Guy is rolling in money. Utilising social media locally reaps in some big numbers.
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