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Food to go

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Food to go

International fast-food chains such as McDonald’s, KFC and Pizza Hut are now found throughout New Zealand. One local version (albeit with an American name) is Burger Wisconsin, a small chain of hamburger bars that was started up in Wellington in 1988. The traditional takeaway meals of fish and chips and meat pies are also still popular.

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

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Kerryn Pollock, Eating – Meals, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/2562/food-to-go (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Kerryn Pollock, published 3 March 2009.