Kermonds Hamburgers where fresh hamburgers are made before your eyes!!
The Key to Kermonds Hamburgers is it is all made freshly before your eyes. Everything is done by hand including the cutting of onions, bacon and lettuce, measuring of meat and washing of vine grown tomatoes The hamburgers are made to order in any combination you desire. The plain hamburger has meat, onions (the onion is cooked onto the meat patty) and tomato sauce. The hamburger with the lot has egg, bacon, tomato, onions and the meat patty. You can add extras like cheese, pineapple, salami (hot calabrese), hot chilli, with lettuce and beetroot on request to any combination of hamburger. Also available is our Steak Rolls served with freshly cooked chips in a box, along with various other fried foods. Our milkshakes and thickshakes are still served in the silver milkshake containers when dining in, which come in a huge range of flavours and are very popular together with our others drinks, old fashion spiders, iced coffees and chocolates, all of which can be taken away. We have Profondo Moccopan Coffee which is freshly ground and served to your liking. All our ingrediants are sourced locally with Lucas Bros Butchers and Materia Bros ensuring a fresh quality product.
Kermond's Hamburgers started in a caravan on December 8th 1949 when John Kermond and his father Joe opened down at the foreshore in Warrnambool. The recipe was devised by Alex Lucas and John Kermond and Lucas Bros Butchers has been making it all for 63 years. After the summer trade, John moved to a Lava Street site where the shop was built in 1957. John's brother Bill, then Robert joined in the partnership. Brett's father Peter worked as holiday relief between 1952 - 57 to be the first employee outside the Kermond family. There have been four generations of the Kermond's and three generations of the Healey families. Peter's first son Mark started in 1971, and his seven other children continued on when they become of age. Brett started in 1984 and became partners with Robert in 2006. There are currently six Healey's working, four are third generation. Robert has been on extended leave since 2010. Peter Healey's cousin Peg retired in 2010 after 50 years of serivce.
It has been the starting place for many young people in our community as their first job. The Daffy's are another example of how families in the district have provided numerous employees to Kermonds over the generations. Each staff member takes their turn cutting the onions and bacon before moving up the ranks to serving and cooking. A clean shop, customer serivce and good work practices are taught to each of the staff to ensure our customers get the best service they deserve. We even still drive the young staff home at the end of an evening shift!
Kermond's Hamburgers has been mentioned on numerous radio programs and featured on television, beating the likes of the Melbourne Zoo when Kermond's came 46th in the RACV most popular tourist attractions in Victoria. It's said, "You can't come to Warrnambool without having a Kermond's Hamburger and once you do you always come back!"