Parkway Charcoal Chicken — Restaurant in Melbourne

Let me transport you to a time of rocking diners, before Ray Croc revolutionised the fast food system (making it quick for you to get your food). This is what ordering food was like. You'd sit and wait and hope your food would come out. But instead of teens on rollerskates looking busy for your order -- there are six people behind the counter taking orders and moving back and forth. Instead of me sitting in a corvette convertible slicking my hair back, I was in Cranbourne.

Lord knows actually what the staff are doing, I had enough time to scroll through my entire facebook feed and more than enough time to take detailed notes, so you'd think I'd know. But they sure looked busy.

I'll tell you what, this place offers something that the slow service of the 1950's never had though. When I ordered, I could literally see the food that I was ordering behind the glass. It was sitting there. Spicy chicken and chips. Yet, I had to wait 10-15 minutes for food that was already ready. But I must have entered some kind of new revolutionary queue system that is about to serve it up to the likes of McDonalds in it's infant and teething stages.

The first time I went here actually, I ordered the spicy chicken. I wasn't sure if she heard me first, so I went for the embarrassing 'second asking for the same order'. She got it that time. She had to have. I was starving. (I had an uber waiting for me as well, my fault though). Again, I could see my order sitting there. All it needed to be was packaged and given to me. I thought to myself 'should I just get it?... Should I walk past the counter and just get it myself?' After the fifteen minute wait (I think one time I actually have gotten lobster made for me quicker) I finally get my meal and IT'S THE WRONG THING.

But hey. That's the price you pay for nostalgia.

P.S Oh and also a lady walked in at 6:45 on Friday and asked for a chicken. 'we're not cooking any more because we're closing soon'. Was the response to her. So make sure you get in well before the advertised 9pm closing time if you want to experience the future of...

NEVER BUY FROM HERE, Ordered a 10pc fried chicken and chips + Gravy & Greek Salad.

Chicken was surprisingly left in a normal chicken bag and was soggy like you’ve never seen before, tasted as dry that I was almost eating paper. 🤮 was sitting in the window when I got there so who knows how long it’s been sitting there for.

Gravy was almost like it was watered down to the point it had to thickness at all, water would be thicker than that gravy. These people don’t know what a Greek salad is because this was half full of onion, only had a tiny cube of feta in it and no dressing at all. Would rather eat a plastic bottle.

Chips were the only thing that was good, and that was because they were made fresh. But everything was very overpriced and a waste of...

Ordered chicken schnitzel and coleslaw roll & a greek salad. The bread was stale and uneatable. The schnitzel - cheap, processed and they couldn't even be bothered putting it in the roll before they wrapped it so I had a coleslaw roll with chicken outside the roll. The Greek salad. No olives. No feta. No dressing. I'm not sure they even know what a greek salad is. The 3 small pieces of tomato were old, the lettuce was okay, butnitbwas hard to judge considering there was only half a handful of it the cucumber was in3 large chunks and 1 3rd of the salad was just onion. Basically I paid $6 for a general salad. And $8 for a roll. Which ended up being thrown away.

You have 1 star just because I'm surprised the coleslaw was in the...