8mo ago

Unhappy meal? Submissions overwhelmingly reject Wānaka McDonald's

www.rnz.co.nz

I'd love to know what everyone else thinks about this. Having somewhere you can get food that is open 24/7 would be very useful, but I can see why the locals wouldn't be happy about it. A McDonald's wouldn't really suit the area.

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Wanaka was a beautiful dream when I visited. A truly beautiful place.
McDonald's would have turned it into an outer Sydney western suburb.
It's pretty much that simple.
I don't have strong opinions, but I have traveled through some Canadian towns up through the Rockies, and I think if there was a big 24/7 McDonald's at the entrance to Banff it would have given the place a completely different feel. So I can understand why 30% of residents may have signed a petition to stop this.
- I've been to Wanaka, and it's one of the few parts of that area of NZ that still felt "real". Queenstown, on the other hand, just felt so manufactured, I really don't like the place at all.
  I can definitely see how a McDonald's would change the place for the worst.
Caveat: I’ve never been to wanaka.
But McDonalds can make restaurants in the middle of many old European cities look “in place”, surely they can do Wanaka?