subway donegal town gone ?

ednwireland

looks like subway has gone in donegal town, sign down, windows smeared up, place is starting to look like a ghost town. gonna be a quiet winter

North_West_Art

They mustnt have been able to hang on until the school re-opened... are rates on the Diamond a bit high, someone was saying

byte

Jeez, another shop gone.

Salvelinus

Doesn't this and the other thread make the developments (especially the apartments) seem a bit pie in the sky?

ednwireland

byte wrote: »

Jeez, another shop gone.

starting to look a bit of a ghost town, we really needed those bigger developments to keep the town rolling, shame they'll never happen

byte

Agreed. I haven't heard any more about the proposed Aldi out the Mullans after the "observations"

As for the Magee or mart site... :rolleyes:

Salvelinus

ednwireland wrote: »

starting to look a bit of a ghost town, we really needed those bigger developments to keep the town rolling, shame they'll never happen

It's Donegal Town, not Galway or some city. Wasn't there meant to be 200 apartments going up? For who?

Carrickman

Seen that yeaterday in fact was in it last week for lunch anytime I went by there was always people eating in it so I find it surprising for a company like Subway to close like that you would think the School trade would keep it going during the winter.

North_West_Art

New appartments above the new Super Valu in Ballybofey, every one of them empty... office space upstairs beside the new Balor theatre, empty.... new appartments at Reids filling station at McClay's corner, mostly empty. Aisling Court new estate on way into Ballybofey on left, more than half empty. Abandoned estate of half finished houses opposite The Beeches estate. Units behind Heany's car park, all vacant. Letterkenny retail units, half empty. Hotels unoccupied mid week, new estates half empty.... not counting the numerous two story detatched houses....all for sale

30% of houses in Doneagl unoccupied on the night of the last census, alot more houses have gone up since then. Moss growing on the roofs of the unoccupied houses and the front lawns overgrown with weeds. Estate agents closing up.

dazza21ie

North_West_Art wrote: »

.......30% of houses in Doneagl unoccupied on the night of the last census, alot more houses have gone up since then. Moss growing on the roofs of the unoccupied houses and the front lawns overgrown with weeds. Estate agents closing up.

At least there are some positives!!!

ednwireland

Salvelinus wrote: »

It's Donegal Town, not Galway or some city. Wasn't there meant to be 200 apartments going up? For who?

meant possible tesco dunnes pennys, the apartments were always a dodgy one, but there was always a shortage of 1 and 2 bed accom.

North_West_Art

dazza21ie wrote: »

At least there are some positives!!!

I think that must have been the most negative post I ever wrote... its only tongue and cheek dramatics :pac:

LoanShark

I bet the Landlord of those premises is livid that there is no new developments happening in Donegal Town, because if we had those developments, the town would have a greater footfall and business would have a good chance of survival....:o

So thats,
Subway-Gone
Filet of Sole- Gone
The Indian-Gone

I heard a rumour of a chemist and a hotel also being in bother!! (anyone else hear this?)

bohsboy

Chemist gone, Eske Pharmacy I think it was although why it even opened I dont know with the opposition already well in place.

KFC are supposed to be moving in to the Subway spot but not 100% sure on this. The boutique located in the arch is shutting down this week too. Place is looking really bare.

On a side note, went to buy the young fella a pair of runners today in a sports shop in the town and an uninterested 16 year old "Sports Advisor" dragged himself away from the Sun at the desk to mumble that he was'nt sure if they had his size and could'nt find the foot measuring equipment.

After an uncomfortable silence we just left and went around to another sports shop where we waited ten minutes for the young attendent to finish her conversation with her friend and walk straight by us to another friend who had only walked in to the shop a minute earlier.

Good luck, I'll buy elsewhere from now on. I thought the town was desperate for trade?

kippy

I looked at this thread and thought first:
"Feck, there was a subway in Donegal town? Its hardly big enough to have a subway, they kept it fairly quiet. I wonder if it's like New York or Londons one?"

On a serious note, Subway is franchised and an expensive franchise to get into at that. Together with relatively high rents and that fee as well as staff costs etc, you really do need to be turning over a fair bit. A sign of the times I suppose.

irish1967

Have to agree about the sports shop service. Experienced the complete lack of it last weekend. Why employers won't invest a little on staff training techniques etc or even go down the commission road is beyond me. Ah well you reap what you sow I guess.

byte

KFC are supposed to be moving in to the Subway spot but not 100% sure on this.

Funny, I heard the same thing today, but you hear all sorts of crap these days.

I also heard there's a pizza place opening where Juicy News was.

BTW, I didn't realise Eske Pharmacy closed? They're not long open, but yeah, would've been hard to compete with the already established chemists/pharmacies.

As for shop service in the sports shops, it's not unique to these IMO. A few various shops come to mind where general courtesy from staff doesn't seem to be part of their job description.

muffler

irish1967 wrote: »

Have to agree about the sports shop service. Experienced the complete lack of it last weekend. Why employers won't invest a little on staff training techniques etc or even go down the commission road is beyond me. Ah well you reap what you sow I guess.

Sorry, couldnt resist

An 18 year old itininerant lad gets a job in a sports shop.

The boss explains the selling tactics to him and tells him to always
make sure the customer gets the right product for its intended use use.

A bit later a young lady enters the shop and the boss tells the itinerant lad to observe as he sells the right item.

She asks for a pair of tennis shoes and the boss says: "Are they for clay or grass" ? She indicates grass and the boss picks out the correct type of shoes for her.

Some time later a man enters the shop and the boss sends the young lad to serve him.

Lad: "can I help you"

Man: I am looking for a baseball bat.

Lad: "Is it for a wedding or a funeral"

irish1967

Touché

ednwireland

LoanShark wrote: »

I bet the Landlord of those premises is livid that there is no new developments happening in Donegal Town, because if we had those developments, the town would have a greater footfall and business would have a good chance of survival....:o

So thats,
Subway-Gone
Filet of Sole- Gone
The Indian-Gone

I heard a rumour of a chemist and a hotel also being in bother!! (anyone else hear this?)

when did the indian go ? was going to get a curry saturday night but got chinese instead never heard that

dont starton hotels or byte will lock the thread

LoanShark

KFC-OMG! (secretly I cant wait if this would be true!)

The pizza place seems to have died a death,He was all go in doing it about four months ago..I think that would be a runner!

The indian was shut last saturday night when I was going around.

I never thought both sports shops had bad service, I was not too pushed on the Chain Store one because they never had much of an offering..But the other one was always good!

Kippy--You didn't know there was an Subway in donegal town!!!! It runs from the castle to the old abbey;)

North_West_Art

LoanShark wrote: »

Kippy--You didn't know there was an Subway in donegal town!!!! It runs from the castle to the old abbey;)

You heard this rumor too? I first heard this way back when I was at the AVS... I heard they sent a dog down one time to see if it would come out the other side and it never reappeared.....:eek:

irish1967

LoanShark wrote: »

Kippy--You didn't know there was an Subway in donegal town!!!! It runs from the castle to the old abbey;)

Dont you mean it runs from The Olde Castle to The Abbey . Now that would be a very handy tunnel late on a wet night.;)

byte

ednwireland wrote: »

dont starton hotels or byte will lock the thread

That's gonna be impossible for me to do!

WRT the Indian, I didn't realised it was closed down? Maybe it's closed for Ramadan? *shrug*

CB11

Heard them rumors 2 while workin in the sports store in Donegal(the chain 1).

usually work in LK 1 so dont worry i dont take any offence 2 any of the comments

ednwireland

byte wrote: »

That's gonna be impossible for me to do!

WRT the Indian, I didn't realised it was closed down? Maybe it's closed for Ramadan? *shrug*

sorry meant muffler (appropriate really )

muffler

ednwireland wrote: »

sorry meant muffler (appropriate really )

Thats why I choose that nick

byte

Noticed Shapla was closed tonight also. So they're either gone or closed for Ramadan.

Broxi_Bear_Eire

byte wrote: »

Noticed Shapla was closed tonight also. So they're either gone or closed for Ramadan.

Never ever heard of an Indian restaurant closing for Ramadan before very strange

ednwireland

was told shapla's closed today (talking to a friend who's closing up:( )

byte

Broxi_Bear_Eire wrote: »

Never ever heard of an Indian restaurant closing for Ramadan before very strange

Aye, but the all-day temptation would be there!

Anyway, seems Ed has confirmed its demise. Anyone know if the one in Letterkenny is still open?

feelpablo

Yep, Shapla has closed (was told by one of the staff). The pizza Place was supposed to be a goer but i think there was an objection put it, im not 100% sure on that one though.

Tis a shame cause donegal needs whatever employement it can get but ya cant blame proprieters with the price of rent in some of the units in town!!!!

irish1967

Eske Pharmacy was still open today though

theblueirish

I heard that the owner of the subway store is also closing his ballybofey store,

on a side note i travel through donegal town most friday nights and usually pick up a take away, a few weeks ago i was traveling through and fancied a chinese, stopped at the shamrock and ordered whenit came to paying i only had sterling, i asked if they took sterling and the young lad said they did but would not allow me on it.
I could have went to the bank link and withdrawn euros, but i just told him to keep the food,
I went up to the other one (cant remember the name) ordered the same food and again asked if they took sterling, again yes but no allowance.
the bill was €18 so they wanted me to pay £18, i put it on my debit card and it came out at £15.37.

my point is businesses are not doing anything to help themselves, go into strabane and you will see €=£ signs all over, all the businesses on the border give at least 10c on sterling purchases.
ROI prices are already high enough without penalising people for having sterling.


my 2c

theblueirish

North_West_Art

Some pubs in Strabane are doing € - £, and its £2.60 for a pint of Guinness

Hootanany

byte wrote: »

Aye, but the all-day temptation would be there!

Anyway, seems Ed has confirmed its demise. Anyone know if the one in Letterkenny is still open?

<SNIP>

muffler

Hootanany you can troll back in under what ever rock you crawled out from. We dont need you or your smart arsed comments here.

LoanShark

Seen the landlord, out cleaning the front of th building after midnight last night!!!and all the windows are covered up today!!

Mint Sauce

Was in the town (Donegal Town) for the first day in about a month today, noticed subway was closed, signs down, windows covered over, the lot.

When did this happen, anytime i was ever in it aways seemed to be popular, always had to wait a little while to be served, service was good, etc.

Shame as it was always a good opition if you wanted something quick.

Anywhere else closing, Donegal Town or otherwise.

irish1967

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055668995

muffler

Merged with thread as linked to above by irish1967

bettlebrox

irish1967 wrote: »

Eske Pharmacy was still open today though

I was home in November and they were open then.

The mother get's prescriptions from there and seem to like the Chemist, he's young and friendly and appears to be concerned about his customers.

Pot Noodle =

muffler wrote: »

Hootanany you can troll back in under what ever rock you crawled out from. We dont need you or your smart arsed comments here.

I have a problem with you calling me a TROLL what is it please

muffler

Pot wrote:

I have a problem with you calling me a TROLL what is it please

Troll

2 things:

1. Do not query a mods decisions on thread - read the forum charter

2. Stick to one account.

Now back on topic

North_West_Art

I heard it discussed that the businesses that will be less likely to be affected by the 'downturn' are the ones that either own their premises, or aren't franchises.

Subway is a franchise. When you have the extra expense of having to fork out solely for a name, it would make you want to close up and go it alone under your own name.

http://www.franchiseopportunities.com/Zor_320171/SUBWAY.htm

You wont see the roadside fruit and veg people going under

inode

a taximan was telling me the subways in letterkenny are both closed today with notices on the doors saying stocktaking, must be a change of ownership, would suck if we lost two subways in one day

Vinegar Hill

The Subway in Ballybofey has gone as well! :mad:

bohemianbond

good for us, our health is our wealth, and subway never contributed positively towards that...expensive too.

martyeds

I think that closed for stock taking sign has been up for a few days now.
In Letterkenny i mean.

Harps

Heard from a friend that theyve closed down both stores in the town..they'll probably be back eventually but for now theyre gone indefinitely.

Strange as the one on the main street in particular was always busy