Northend Store and Takeaways (Parkview Store) is a combined store and takeaway on Main Street in Pahiatua, holding a 4.5 Google rating. In small country towns the store-and-takeaway is a proper institution: bread, milk and everyday basics at one end of the counter, hot food at the other, all in a single stop. What separates a good one from an average shop is cooking to order rather than leaving chips sitting in the warmer, so it pays to ask what's freshly fried. Regulars know to ring ahead on Friday evenings, when the queue for the fryer builds, and to judge any takeaway by its chips before anything else. On Pahiatua's Main Street, Northend Store and Takeaways does that double duty for the town, and that 4.5 rating suggests locals are glad of it.