KFC’s donut balls are honestly terrible, almost broke my tooth trying to bite into it
Never heard of it.
Public holiday surcharges have been around for years, I think.
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Domino’s and Grill’d are places where I’ve paid public holiday surcharges in the past.
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Public holiday surcharges have been a thing for as long as I can remember, and they are fine so long as the business is paying their staff penalty rates.
Many people may also not realise than all four days of the Easter long weekend are now public holidays attracting penalty rates (in NSW at least), which wasn’t the case until a few years ago.
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there have been surchages for public holdays for ages and sunday surges as well
1 hour dining limit? Must have been a very busy period for the restaurant. It didn’t leave your friends much time to enjoy the dim sum.
My local Chinese restaurant has two sittings for yum cha on weekends and public holidays, each lasting 90 minutes. Usually it’s 11am to 12.30pm and 12.30pm to 2pm.
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The same thing happened to me on Friday when I went to cafe in Bronte. They had nothing on the menu when we ordered, but had a small handwritten note “15% public holiday surcharge” at the cash register.
I was curious and checked the NSW government website. It’s still legal to apply a public holiday surcharge but they’re supposed to have different public holiday menus with the different charges clearly shown.
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I don’t have a problem with cafes and restaurants charging extra on public holidays. But if they are in a tourist area where they would be busier then normal on a public holiday then charging a surcharge is opportunistic as the additional trade they normally wouldn’t get should cover the additional wages and then some without the need to charge extra.
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my parents live on a holiday island where there is one cafe. that cafe is extremely busy on weekends and public holidays (45 min wait for fish and chips is not uncommon as it is the only place on the smallish island for any form of takeout) and they still insist on a 25% public holiday surcharge
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Looks like we are definitely getting elements from the Burger King Worldwide rebrand for Hungry Jack’s!
The Ad for the Yumbo’s return uses the same proprietary “Flame” font:
And the original Innaloo location in WA received a facelift to coincide with the 50th Anniversary:
Great to see the new branding style with a local flavour. Wonder if the current logo will be updated as well in time? 
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The Yumbo from Hungry Jacks in George St, Sydney was always great.
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Hungry Jacks goes back to the 70s to compete with the new burger chains that threaten it with their 21st century innovations. What could go wrong? 
Haven’t you seen some of the current design wrappers from Maccas and the other fast food chains? Those wouldn’t be terribly out of place in the 1970s!
No. I never go to those fast food outlets. Giving them a daggy 70s look wouldn’t entice me.
Is that just a ham and cheese sandwich? Looks fucking grim.
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I also noticed the Innaloo location borrows quite a few elements from the new-look concept Burger King locations seen in the rebrand video, right down to Whopper logo against the wooden panels, the green and orange seats, even the little thin wooden bars visible in the second photo and the very left-side…
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