A new service station in Cambridge has opened with a rooftop deck that allows customers to watch planes take off and land.
Mood Food Flight Deck, located next to Cambridge Aerodrome on Kennedy Drive, opened today.
The $5.5 million development is the largest project in Bennett Petroleum’s 50-year history.
Chief Executive Troy Bennett said the design was inspired by the old Hobart Airport terminal.
“The old Hobart Airport terminal used to have an observation deck where people could watch planes take off and land,” he said.
“We used that memory as an inspiration for the Mood Food Cambridge observation deck.”
The new store is Bennett Petroleum’s 11th Mood Food outlet and employs 20 people.
It features 80 fuel hoses and one of the largest service station canopies in Australia.
Bennett said the Mood Food brand had grown significantly since its early days.
“When the first one opened in 1973, it was little more than a shack on the Midland Highway just outside Kempton,” he said.
“Tasmanians grew to love stopping there for coffee, egg and bacon rolls or petrol and it quickly became a Tassie legend.”
Bennett Petroleum bought the Mood Food brand in 2007 and now operates stores in Huonville, Launceston and Burnie.
The company employs more than 300 people and runs 22 service stations across Tasmania.
The Cambridge store will sell fuel 24 hours a day, seven days a week, while food will be available from 5am to 8pm on weekdays and from 7am to 8pm on weekends.
It is located just over 500 metres from BP Hobart Airport and around the corner from a Shell outlet.
