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In the short six months The Bungalow has been open, it has already extended its trading hours, put on more staff, and is renovating a space next door.
The all-day dining restaurant opened on the Yeppoon Esplanade in November last year.
Young owners Greg McLean and Caity Jones have a long history in the hospitality industry, having owned 11 venues in the past eight years.
The pair was living at the Sunshine Coast and Brisbane and with Caity having grown up in Yeppoon, they often came to the coast to visit family.
They holidayed at Yeppoon when COVID hit last year and were “blown away” by how lucky regional Queensland had it.
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Foodies unite, a new fast food franchise is poised to open in Rockhampton.
The Australian company was founded in Melbourne and has more than 10 stores across the country, including a handful of stores in Brisbane and one in Toowoomba.
The company is partnered with Noodle Box, Wok In a Box, Supreme Leader, Double Dragon Dumplings and Alabama Wings. Pattysmiths have a range of burgers, fries, drinks and sides.
Pattysmiths offers a wide range of burgers, chicken pieces and ribs, loaded fries, sides, thick shakes, desserts and a children’s menu.
The former Coffee Club building has been vacant since early 2017 when the company ended its 10-year lease to focus on its Empire and Stockland stores.
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Subscriber only Cocobrew Express, Rockhampton s first architecturally designed drive-through coffee shop, has been approved to be built on a main highway corner site. The $1.35m development will be located on the corner of George and Albert St, across from Browne Park. It is a project of well-known Rockhampton developer John Kele of Kele Property Group. The leasees of Cocobrew, which KPG developed in 2019, will operate the site. The site, 40-44 Albert St, currently has three dilapidated houses which will be removed for the development. The drive-through coffee shop has order and pick up windows. Renders by Design + Architecture.
After almost 40 years of business, Rockhampton’s Ocean City Chinese is on the market.
The owners, Angela and Roy Kuong, are looking to retire but are hoping they can sell the business first.
“We will try to sell it first, see if there are any buyers,” Angela said.
“If someone can run the restaurant, we would be happy.
“If no one buys it we will sell the building and shut the door and retire.”
With Roy now 67, the couple wants to spend more time with their two children and four grandchildren, who are in Brisbane and Sydney. Ocean City Chinese owners Angela and Roy Kuong have put the business on the market after 40 years.