Chip'n'Mix takes Yo-Chi's self-serve model and applies it to fried potatoes
High, low, near, far, chips are everywhere. They're hand-cut and plated with dry-aged tuna in Paddington, piled high to drag through toum in Marrickville, sprinkled with Aleppo pepper in Bangalow. With such a rampant appetite for fried potatoes – Australians consume more than 19 kilograms of frozen potatoes annually, most of them chips – it was only a matter of time before someone opened a place that gave the people what they so clearly, desperately want: hot chips, all day every day.
This place is Noosa's hyped Chip'n'Mix (8 Hastings Street, Noosa Heads). Since launching in April, the Hastings Street shopfront has drawn queues and spawned videos attracting millions of views on Instagram and TikTok. The reason? An innovative setup that takes the self-serve aspect of frozen yoghurt-sensation Yo-Chi and applies it to fried potatoes.
First up, you'll be faced with three different chip dispensers. This is where the fun begins, says co-founder Rhi Pearce. 'Each dispenser has a different type of chip in it. We've got a classic crispy chip, sweet potato fries and then a hand-cut English sort-of chip-shop chip. You choose which one you want, grab a carton, put it in the dispenser, pull the lever and fresh chips straight from the kitchen will come into your tub.
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