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Eating out

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Woman serving kids at busy McDonald's
The first McDonald’s in New Zealand opened at Porirua in 1976. Ten years later the same restaurant was the site of a fundraising effort for New Zealand’s Commonwealth Games team: the Consumer Affairs Minister, Margaret Shields, helps out behind the counter.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)

Reference: EP/1986/3175

by Ian Mackley

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Chris Maclean, Wellington places – Porirua, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/2246/eating-out (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Chris Maclean, published 15 January 2010, updated 1 March 2016.