The first Golden Arches in New Zealand appeared in the Wellington suburb of Porirua back in 1976. Big Macs were priced at 75 cents (equivalent to $6.40 today), cheeseburgers 40 cents and hamburgers 30 cents.
AMERICAN FOOD
Kiwi brothers Wally and Hugh Morris, founders of the Shoprite supermarket chain, had heard about the huge success of an American hamburger chain and decided to bring it to New Zealand. To start with, they had to convince Ray Kroc, the legendary creator of the McDonald’s franchise, that New Zealand was a country worth opening a restaurant or two in. At their first meeting in 1975, Kroc bluntly told the Morris brothers, “New Zealand? We’re not going there. I cruised into New Zealand on a Saturday and there was no-one in the street anywhere, and on Sunday it was even worse. I never met a more dead-than-alive hole in my life. Where do all the people go on the weekend?”
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