First And Last Dairy, which also runs as Country Fried Chicken, is a corner dairy and takeaway on Archibald Street in Tinwald, Ashburton, with a 4.5 rating from 106 Google reviews.
A good dairy is the neighbourhood's fallback: milk and bread when the supermarket's shut, a pie at lunchtime, ice blocks after school. The best ones become fixtures, knowing the regulars' orders, stocking what the street actually buys and keeping hours the big chains don't. When a dairy adds a fryer, the hot food often becomes the real draw, and regulars time their visits to the batches, because chicken straight from the fryer beats anything that has sat in the warmer all afternoon. Most take EFTPOS now, though a few coins never hurt.
For Tinwald, a corner dairy with a chicken kitchen and a 4.5 rating behind it is the sort of place a street builds its routines around.