Ron Coote's Maccas

Immortal Ron Coote owned several McDonalds chains in retirement including the one on King Street in Newtown which is now a pub called Kelly's on King.

"The Cricketers’ Arms finally closed in the late 1970s and the owners Tooth and Co sold the building to McDonald’s in 1982 to make way for a restaurant that proved to be unwelcome in the district. McDonald’s eventually bowed to local pressure and closed in 1998. The Newtown Maccas was operated by the former rugby league player Ron Coote [South Sydney and Easts] and his family" - 'What’s in a name? The history of Sydney’s sporting pubs' by John W. Ross