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still family - owned and operated, the pancake parlour is a melbourne institution that’s celebrating its 50 th anniversary this year .
i had breakfast at the pancake parlour at melbourne central today the young staff member who served us was exceptionally well mannered and polite on her first day at the job credit to her to her restaurant and to the pancake parlour itself would recommend ...
i' ve never eaten a pancake that is so delicious. when paired with the butter ice cream which melts into the pancake, it makes the pancake even more yummy. we order the potato and cheese pancake with other pancake options, all the breakfast are nice .
financial circumstances meant we had to start in adelaide, but we finally returned home and opened up at 4 market lane. we called it the pancake parlour, as the pancake kitchen was already registered at the time .
we visited pancake parlour for dinner on a monday night. it was quiet, service was good and super fast, and the meals were delicious. loved the cheese kransky and potato pancakes. would recommend to others wanting pancake based meals .
fountain gate opened with a newer style look and our most expensive restaurant (at the time). we started to look at new design elements that people still associate with the pancake parlour .
it’s half a century since the founders of the pancake parlour first wowed aussie diners with fresh, delicious pancakes but age has not wearied the melbourne dining institution whose charm and innovative strategies continue to drive its success .
if you’re from melbourne the name the pancake parlour and its lovely! lady logo will be very familiar. and it’s likely you’ll have fond memories of good times had in its restaurants surrounded by its whimsical décor .
the eastern corridor of melbourne is now a pancake haven. pancakes ‘n’ movies was a hit .
the company’s family values combined with the owners’ keen ability to connect with customers and continue to innovate to meet their changing needs and behaviour is at the heart of the pancake parlour’s long - running success, according to managing director mandy david .
one of our bold new ideas was to take pancakes to the people. long before food trucks, we built the pancake parlour party machine, which could be towed to any location and a staff member would cook for guests. should we open a food truck ?
a single buttermilk pancake with ice cream, chocolate fudge and 100’s & 1000’s. plus your choice of drink .
the pancake parlour’s commitment to innovation is also evident in its strategic use of social media, which it’s embraced as an invaluable tool to connect with customers. david says social media, particularly facebook where it has more than 300, 000 fans, has been key to its ongoing success .
i love the pancake parlour. i visit my local one regularly and thoroughly enjoy their food. and after a night out drinking, it' s a great way to end a night. we called in primarily as we wanted food but also we had about an hour ...
my friends and i have just come from the pancake parlour for breakfast. 1hr wait for food, overly priced orange juice, and mediocre food, which is being generous. to top this off, we witnessed a mouse casually walking across the floor. when going to pay ...
a friend and i decided to try pancake parlour for the first time this morning for brekky. to be honest, it wasn' t that great. the food was goodish but the overall atmosphere was lacking. the 1 male staff member serving customers was average. we ordered ...
our highly acclaimed potato pancake with a crust of golden melting cheese, topped with whipped butter and served with a side salad .
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david adds that the transition to the second generation with simon meadmore becoming ceo in 2003 was a key milestone in the company’s evolution. meadmore’s strategy of “gentle reinvigoration” has included a re - design of its branding and architectural look and upgrades to restaurants, as well as the rollout of new showcase restaurants built on the classic décors associated with the pancake parlour .
today, the pancake parlour employs about 800 people, with a turnover of $ 40 million and 12 sites. all are in melbourne, in the cbd and suburbs, apart from two licensee - run operations in ballarat and canberra. two new restaurants are poised to open in july in melbourne shopping centres at werribee and knox, and sights are on another opening this year .
“he moved us into a period of growth and sustainability, but at the same time treasuring all the things that made it an institution. the pancake parlour has always been very whimsical, a bit victoriana, and simon brought that whimsical look into the current century. he’s retained our legacy but moved it into a different updated arena, so it’s continued to appeal and stay relevant. ”
whilst working as a founder of the hubbard association of scientologisdts international (the hasi) i spent 6 months studying in auckland. it was after my return from nz that helen and i married. we had a boy and a girl, simon and samantha, and ten great years together. during this time we opened the pancake kitchen, adelaide, in gilbert place, and later the pancake parlour in melbourne off bourke street and after we split up, many others around melbourne and australia – even one in tokyo which i believe is still going .
helen and i got the idea of pancakes driving down to florida in a borrowed volkswagen in 1959. it took a few years to make the money to start what became a very successful chain of restaurants, all australian owned and few of franchised, most of which failed. it’s funny, you only have 3000 little things to do to run a successful pancake parlour – but asll of them though simple are essential .
it takes 2 to taco. our new pancake tacos have taken the sweet - savoury romance to a new level. tag a friend who needs to try this with you urltoken
let' s taco' bout our brand - new pancake tacos! pancakes, crispy bacon and jazzed up with house - made salsa - it' s a handful of deliciousness. urltoken
butterflied chicken breast crumbed with japanese style breadcrumbs on a buckwheat pancake served italian - style with a slice of ham, melting cheese and our napoli sauce. served with a side salad .
our pancake and crepe choices are house - made from fresh, local ingredients. our eggs are free - range and chicken is chemical - free. vegan and gluten - free options are available .
it took us 6 years to raise the funds, and while selling hot - dog cookers around australia, we came across a burnt - out delicatessen in adelaide and converted it into the pancake kitchen .
our lease at 4 market lane wasn’t extended, so we opened up just down the lane (number 25) and at bourke street. pancake parade – blocking off bourke street before the council created the mall .
“the idea for a pancake restaurant was first conceived in 1959 while roger meadmore and allan trascall were on a driving trip in america. they would frequently stop at road side restaurants where pancakes were a favourite on the menu”… .
these films are produced through the media resource centre’s seniors on screen program, and tell the story of the original pancake kitchen (50 years on gilbert place) and alec’s hairdressers (leigh street 41 years) and the stories of their owners .
herself a 29 - year veteran at the company, having joined as a university student and with her own fond memories including a first date as a teenager at one of the pancake parlours, david believes being a family business has contributed to the company’s strength .
we decided it would be fun to drive from new york to miami, and along the way we ate pancakes for breakfast every day. americans served pancakes the way we serve toast in australia. we dreamed of one day opening up a pancake restaurant in melbourne .
the business started in 1965 in adelaide by three friends – roger meadmore, and helen and allen trachsel – before they later brought it to melbourne. now led by simon meadmore (roger’s son), the restaurant chain built on the universal appeal of the simple pancake delivered with friendly service has achieved a longevity that’s a feat for any business but even more so in the competitive food service industry .
“a new chapter started at the pancake kitchen with the first adelaide festival of arts. the idea for opening 24 hours a day was put forth. this was for several reasons, they were finding that with the festival on the afternoon shift were finishing work at 3 - 4am in the morning and the day shift were starting at 5am in the morning, so they decided to just stay open. . the milk shift was created, midnight to 8am (it was called the milk shift because the milk would always be delivered on this shift, and it still is today). after the festival had finished the adelaide people liked the idea of having somewhere to supper after hours that the milk shift (known to us as the milky) became a constant thing and it still it today. ”
being open on sundays in adelaide seemed radical at the time, but we were all about convenience, so we opened on sunday during the 1966 footy season .
a couple of our earliest customers worked at the advertiser. one night, they managed to get menus printed for us - on dark - brown left - over shirt packaging! they were too dark to read, but they did the job .
it served drinks, ice - creams and hot dogs, and was situated right outside our bourke street restaurant. a lot of what was served at the soda fountain is served on our menu today – the sundaes, sodas and so on .
our first free - standing suburban restaurant opened on doncaster road. it was so busy, we had to open it 24 hours .
within 11 months of each other. we were now flippin’ pancakes in the north and west of melbourne .
while fountain gate took a different approach, we unfolded a new style with the opening of melbourne central. a robust - and - copper look with a high - quality finish, and a tree in the middle .
our most exciting development to date. it was the first restaurant with its own bar, and we built a lovely lounge area to complement !
malvern east inspired us to revamp highpoint and doncaster with our new look. both restaurants feature larger and more comfortable booths, and continue to be our flagship restaurants .
the new look also brought upon a new direction with our menu. we introduced a number of innovative limited - time specials, which we introduce seasonally. our classics are still there – always will be .
we now have a total of 11 melbourne restaurants flippin’ up lovely sweet and savoury pancakes and crepes. where to next? stay tuned .
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hi! i’m roger meadmore – i’m 75 and i’ve packed a lot into ’em…. starting with my earliest memory of my bunny - rug at 4, at eleven i was captain of the darebin junior cricket team and mum used to drive us hither and yon to suburbs all around melbourne. i don’t recall much of the scores and i couldn’t have been that good at batting or left arm slow spin bowling as i didn’t make the top team at wesley college except as scorer, usingmy neat script that had won me moby dick for exercises the year before !
i left school at 17 with my leaving certificate and ran my father’s model shop in auburn called the hobby den. my brother clem and his wife enid lived above as he did many design things working on becoming much later a world famous sculptor. (they are both dead now. )
i hated running a shop and escaped to national service in the raaf at point cook. whilst there i took up flying training at moorrabbin on tiger moths. years later i owned a tiger for 34 years. wonderful aeroplane – you never lose the thrill of really flying – and it was the best “bird - puller” you can imagine – chopping up a toilet roll from 4000 feet with loops and stall turns was a real buzz .
still a virgin (those waafs in the air force were so attractive) i went ot william angliss food trades school and learned to cook under chef walter zimmerman (“ven is brown is done and ven is black is buggered up! ”) i rode a lambretta to school each day and got booked for doiung 54 miles and hour. thereafter chef called me speedy gonzales. that year was great and i worked at the windsor hotel as a larder cook and played pontoon in the breaks with 7 other cooks. i also met one of the waitresses, a 24 year old trainee nurse, patricia mcmartin, who also liked jazz and tennis and making love, which i was keen to learn…. (if you’re reading this patricia, please get in touch – i’ve made umpteen phone calls in melbourne trying to find you but to no avail. )
about now i fell in love and my life changed completely. lovemaking became the most exciting, rewarding, joyful exchange of human emotion imagineable and we stayed in love until she died a few months ago. married to another for all those years after we split after 3 or 4 years due to my becoming interested in scientology and she, who had been a catholic, saying, ”god, haven’t i changed enough! ? ” and went back to smoking which i hated and that was it. one of the greatest mistakes of my life – but at 22, what do you know ?
during this period i had seen the coming of the espresso machine and bought one on time payment and put it in the causeway, in the city of melbourne. it was great success. after a fall out with the landlord i moved it to the olympic games press club in 1956 – was that a buzz !
soon after i sold the machine and did a founding course in scientology, becoming a hubbard professional auditor and meeting helen my first wife and setting up a practice together in kew and then going overseas in 1959 to do a six week advanced clinical course with ron hubbard and about 60 others like ourselves. fantastic! we were the first to run engrams (moments of pain and unconsciousness containing real or imaginary threats to survival) that actually went earlier than this lifetime. i was lucky enough to get as my subject a retired air force pilot who had flown in the war as a major and was jim bowie in 1836, dying in the alamo. very real. as were my own recalls of being a portugese pirate. i studied spanish at flinders uni near adelaide and the instuctor, on hearing my spanish said i had a very portugese accent and i replied, “that figures! ” he didn’t ask me to elucidate .
i’ve stayed interested in scientology all my life – although costly (air fares to and from america are just a start) i could not pay for what i’ve got out of it in 10 lifetimes of income. i’m currently working on making another fortune (i lost six million with the six months pilots’ strike) so i can spend six months in the bahamas doing the rest of things i want to finish – which will last me into infinity .
i am currently helping to save the world by becoming an internet deal broker (this is one avenue you are reading right now) to at least save the bees in australia from extinction from an african small hive beetle whgich an australian has invented a $ 5 trap for. worldwide a virus is wiping out the bees with no known cure. humanity depends on bees for cross pollination. without them we have 3 years to live .
another project is half a tablet costing $ 3 in your car’s petrol or diesel or lpg tank to raise combustion and almost totally clean emissions and thus aid reduction of global warming. you save about 200 kms. with a normal car in oz. the response is underwhelming. we don’t deserve a clean habitable planet .
i will greatly extend this list shortly. stay tuned. don’t hesitate to call 61 - 3 5461 3346 or email roger. meadmore @ urltoken for more info or enough to buy on paypal .
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open 24 hours at highpoint, doncaster and malvern east, and' til late at all other melbourne locations. we also deliver pancakes via deliveroo and ubereats. free wifi available .
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still family - owned and operated, the melbourne institution is this year celebrating its 50 th anniversary – at the same time as experiencing record turnover and growth in customer numbers, and continuing to expand .
“even as the business continued to grow so large i think family - owned businesses have a connection and real focus on communication with their staff, ” she says. “it’s really important to concentrate on your people. in our industry especially, if your people aren’t happy then your customers are not going to be happy .
“there’s a real passion in our team. we love the business we’re in and we like to see people walking out the door with a smile on their face and a lolly in their hand. ”
“the opening of two new sites within two weeks of each other is a real achievement for us, ” says david. “it’s something we’ve never attempted before, but it’s very exciting for the company. we’re always looking for new opportunities. ”
other touches include cocktail bars that helped broaden the business to new customers and expanded menus .
“social media has helped us dramatically; it’s absolutely part of our success, ” says david. “it’s the way to reach your customers. we ask their opinions all the time on facebook – what they think of new dishes, where they would like to see a new restaurant. and they certainly tell you what they think. ”
today it employs about 800 people, with a turnover of $ 40 million across 12 restaurants .
since becoming ceo in 2003, simon meadmore has led a strategy of “gentle reinvigoration”. this includes a re - design of its branding and architectural look and upgrades to restaurants, as well as the rollout of new showcase restaurants built on the brand’s classic décors .
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had brunch here today and didn' t disappoint. a great selection of food and doesn' t just sell pancakes. i do however think the prices are a little steep more so on drinks. good table service however could see that when it gets busy they became a ...
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good meeting point and catch up with friends place but very expensive food and drinks. . sat outside in boith and great people watching spot
thanks for the review camdenham. great to hear that you were a fan of our hotcakes range - you' ll be pleased to know that they are here to stay! ! we appreciate your feedback regarding the quality of service during your visit. we will be sure ...
visited on sunday 4th march. we called in mid afternoon for some pancakes and a coffee. we had a 2for1 voucher for the pancakes which made out visit great value. it was very quiet so didn' t have to wait long to be seated and our ...
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big hungry family of five. lots of variety on the menu, well cooked, pretty good coffee and excellent service .
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two buttermilk pancakes, fresh strawberries, a strawberry coulis and dusted with icing sugar .
two buttermilk pancakes with pure belgian chocolate chips. served with a choice of vanilla ice cream or cream, house made hot chocolate fudge and belgian chocolate chips .
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! - two buttermilk pancakes topped with banana and caramelized californian walnuts dusted with cinnamon .
crumbed cajun spiced chicken. served with lettuce, sweet corn kernels, a free range egg and fresh salad vegetables .
two crepes filled with creamy feta cheese and spinach. served with sour cream and a side salad .
two buttermilk pancakes with pure belgian chocolate chips. served with a choice of cream or vanilla ice cream, house made hot chocolate fudge and belgian chocolate chips .
two buttermilk pancakes. served with fried banana topped with cinnamon and maple flavoured syrup .
two buttermilk pancakes. served with a house made chocolate coffee and kahlua sauce, an espresso coffee mascarpone, belgian chocolate chips with vanilla ice cream or cream .
warm spiced apple served on two buttermilk pancakes dusted with cinnamon and with a choice of cream or ice - cream .
lashings of house - made hot chocolate fudge and sprinkled with hundreds and thousands on two buttermilk pancakes topped with vanilla ice - cream .
two buttermilk pancakes, bacon and two eggs. served with whipped butter and maple - flavoured syrup .
two buttermilk pancakes, bacon, grilled tomato, garlic - buttered mushrooms and two eggs. served with whipped butter and maple - flavoured syrup .
two buttermilk pancakes, house - made hash browns and two eggs. served with whipped butter and maple - flavoured syrup .
tender pieces of warm cajun - spiced chicken atop tossed lettuce, sweet corn kernels, a free - range egg and fresh salad vegetables .
tender pieces of warm crumbed chicken, a hardboiled free - range egg and crisp bacon bits served on a bed of cos lettuce with anchovy dressing and shaved parmesan cheese .
cottage fries served with cheddar cheese, crisp bacon bits, sour cream and spring onions .
sauteed chicken with mild chilli and classic mexican ingredients rolled in two french crepes. served with shredded lettuce and our house - made taco sauce ,
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jalapeno peppers and sour cream on the side .
two savoury crepes filled with creamy feta cheese and spinach served with sour cream and a side salad .
two cheese kransky sausages served with two fried free - range eggs, two buttermilk pancakes whipped butter and maple - flavoured syrup .
great to share! succulent panko - style crumbed chicken breast tenders served with herb - spiced cottage - fried potatoes, honey mustard mayonnaise and house - made sweet chilli sauce.
the pancake parlour is an australian family-owned pancake restaurant chain , serving sweet and savoury pancakes and crepes with locations in victoria and the act . the first pancake parlour restaurant opened in gilbert place , adelaide on 15 may 1965 as " the pancake kitchen " and is still is in operation today as " the original pancake kitchen " . the first restaurant was established by roger meadmore and allen and helen trachsel . the trachsels moved to melbourne opening " the pancake parlour " in market lane in 1969 , whilst meadmore moved to sydney and on 17 august 1975 opened " pancakes on the rocks " . in 1985 the company expanded opening a store in canberra . there are eleven melbourne restaurants , with the doncaster , highpoint and malvern east restaurants open 24 hours a day . pancake parlour also serve fish , chicken , salads and scotch fillet steak as well as other breakfast dishes . founders meadmore and the trachsels , as well as the current chief executive officer , simon meadmore , are church of scientology members . 
the pancake parlour is an australian family-owned pancake restaurant chain, serving sweet and savoury pancakes and crepes with locations in victoria and the act. the first pancake parlour restaurant opened in gilbert place, adelaide on 15 may 1965 as " the pancake kitchen " and is still is in operation today as " the original pancake kitchen ". the first restaurant was established by roger meadmore and allen and helen trachsel. the trachsels moved to melbourne opening " the pancake parlour " in market lane in 1969, whilst meadmore moved to sydney and on 17 august 1975 opened " pancakes on the rocks ". in 1985 the company expanded opening a store in canberra. there are eleven melbourne restaurants, with the doncaster, highpoint and malvern east restaurants open 24 hours a day. pancake parlour also serve fish, chicken, salads and scotch fillet steak as well as other breakfast dishes. founders meadmore and the trachsels, as well as the current chief executive officer, simon meadmore, are church of scientology members.
the pancake parlour is an australian family-owned pancake restaurant chain, serving sweet and savoury pancakes and crepes with locations in victoria and the act. the first pancake parlour restaurant opened in gilbert place, adelaide on 15 may 1965 as " the pancake kitchen " and is still is in operation today as " the original pancake kitchen ". the first restaurant was established by roger meadmore and allen and helen trachsel. the trachsels moved to melbourne opening " the pancake parlour " in market lane in 1969, whilst meadmore moved to sydney and on 17 august 1975 opened " pancakes on the rocks ". in 1985 the company expanded opening a store in canberra. there are eleven melbourne restaurants, with the doncaster, highpoint and malvern east restaurants open 24 hours a day. pancake parlour also serve fish, chicken, salads and scotch fillet steak as well as other breakfast dishes. founders meadmore and the trachsels, as well as the current chief executive officer, simon meadmore, are church of scientology members.