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Cafeteria, Kiwi dairy factory

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Cafeteria, Kiwi dairy factory

Some workplaces have a cafeteria where staff can get hot and cold food for lunch and other meal breaks. This is the cafeteria at the Kiwi dairy factory in Hāwera in 1975. The servery was off-bounds to the dairy workers – the door is marked 'no admittance'.

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Kerryn Pollock, Eating – Meals, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/38602/cafeteria-kiwi-dairy-factory (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Kerryn Pollock, published 20 November 2012.