A convenience restaurant could heavily disrupt the community of mount Evelyn, by reducing traffic to the collection of cafe's, coffee shops, bakery's, and small take-away chains that mount Evelyn is known for. Mount Evelyn's small businesses would be likely to fail, an mount Evelyn's small businesses are it's community. Furthermore, this application would remove one of the largest social sport centres and replace it with a convenience restaurant. Research suggests that health and wellbeing is highly associated with exercise, and social connections, each having marked impacts on lifespan, suicide, and mental health. Convenience food is typically a poor health option, reducing life span and negatively impacting mental and physical health.
If a convenience restaurant is built in mount Evelyn, I believe there will be no winners. It will successfully make money, but will come at the expense of the community, the culture, the health, and the wellbeing of local residents. Small business will suffer, community town feel will be degraded, local social sport will be destroyed, and all this will be replaced with a franchise responsible for contributing to obesity.
If a mount Evelyn resident wants convenience food, it is a 6 minute drive to Lilydale MacDonald's, and Lilydale KFC, and a 9 minute drive to Kilsyth MacDonald's and red rooster. Meanwhile, the indoor sport centre has a history of attracting players from 20+ minutes away.