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KFC Gold Coast: Where Coast’s newest fast food restaurant will be

The Gold Coast’s love affair with fast food is about to get spicier, with the city’s newest KFC now being built.

The Gold Coast’s love affair with fast food is about to get spicier, with the city’s newest KFC now being built.

Construction is well underway on the new restaurant, which is being built on the corner of Ferry Road and Zircon Ave.

The KFC now under construction. Picture: Andrew Potts
The KFC now under construction. Picture: Andrew Potts

It will be part of a mixed-use complex which will primarily include commercial spaces.

The drive-through restaurant is rising on the former site of Scotty’s Trading Post.

It is not known exactly when the KFC will open but it is expected to be around Christmas.

An artist impression of the KFC restaurant planned for Ferry Road
An artist impression of the KFC restaurant planned for Ferry Road

It is part of a series of major fast food outlets which are all located within a few hundred metres of each other.

It just metres away from a Hungry Jacks and McDonalds, both of which are within some of the city’s busiest service stations.

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The new mixed-use complex which the KFC will be part of.
The new mixed-use complex which the KFC will be part of.

A Taco Bell, the city’s second, opened in August on a former car rental lot.

The Gold Coast Bulletin revealed in October last year that one of the world’s leading fast food franchisees, Collins Restaurants Management – whose brands included Taco Bell, KFC and Sizzlers – was planning a new drive-through restaurant on the site.

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