After 31 years in Dandenong, Pancake Parlour calls it a day

IT’S been a local landmark for more than three decades. But the Pancake Parlour in Dandenong has shut up shop, leaving customers short their favourite stack.

THE Pancake Parlour in Dandenong has shut up shop after 31 years.

The restaurant opened in 1986, just days after the Chadstone Shopping Centre parlour opened, and the large, colourful building in the Princes Highway is a local landmark.

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The freestanding restaurant was created with an Art Deco theme in a large 1930s building, with a replica of the Art Deco totem of the Chrysler Building in New York.

The iconic Dandenong restaurant has closed down. Picture: Wayne Taylor

It’s not known what will become of the site. Picture: Wayne Taylor.

Managing director Mandy David said the decision to close was a commercial one.

“The closest restaurant is located at Westfield Fountain Gate, where we have redeployed many of our Dandenong team members.

“We would love to see the Dandenong customers visit us here,” Ms David said.

A new store is to open at another location next year.

The closest Pancake Parlour restaurant is at Fountain Gate.

The company said on its Facebook page last month that the store had closed due to “New Openings in 2018”, with a new Melbourne location to be announced later in the year.

Shortly after the restaurant closed last month the company offered vouchers for Dandenong customers to use before the end of September at the Fountain Gate - which it said was “just 15 minutes down the highway”.

Ms David said Pancake Parlour never owned the building but was a tenant.

The business has now completely moved out but, as yet, the building hasn’t been listed for lease or sale.

The building rocketed in value from $105,000 in 1981 to $1.08 million in 1988, when it was last sold.