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Will you be lonely after Cafe Fraiche?

  • 17-09-2009 6:23pm
    #1
    Dankoozy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,115 ✭✭✭


    Was in there once and the shaggers charged me something like 3 euros for a mediocre cup of coffee served in a cardboard cup.

    it wasn't even a nice place to sit down for a chat either, chairs and tables and the general arrangement of everything was awful

    The place was clearly aimed at iPhone-toting meeja students with a penchant for overpriced goods and services and there's not too many around in CIT thank god. even those lads are feeling the recession these days and need all their money for their contract with O2 and to buy a new MacBook air when the battery goes bad.

    how much would it cost to rent that place out and set up a recession cafe there?

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  • #2
    Gauge
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,818 ✭✭✭Gauge


    Didn't know CIT had a course in meeja.


  • #3
    Dankoozy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,115 ✭✭✭Dankoozy


    Gauge wrote: »
    Didn't know CIT had a course in meeja.

    they have quite a few actually


  • #4
    Lia_lia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,691 ✭✭✭Lia_lia


    Can ye stop this meeja sh*te, please?


  • #5
    suppafly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,055 ✭✭✭suppafly


    ya i saw it was closed when i went into the student centre the other. I never went inot the place. As the OP said the prices were expensive and the stuff wasn't any better than the food in the main canteen which was way cheap. Def won't miss the place.


  • #6
    philiporeilly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 602 ✭✭✭philiporeilly


    Personally I liked the food there but you are right about the prices. Something is definitely wrong when I hear several staff on 50k+ saying that we'll go there for a treat on a Friday.

    I had several suggestions which I thought would improve the business but they obviously didnt know their market.

    Suggestions I made at beginning:
    • Background Music to give atmosphere (not too loud)
    • Free Wifi (this was before college rolled it out)
    • Movie posters on wall to make it more student friendly
    • student pricing

    The other problem that they ran into was the fact the CIT canteen has vastly improved its service over the last few years. This doesn't help when you're trying to justify higher prices.


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  • #7
    evil-monkey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,663 ✭✭✭evil-monkey


    Dankoozy wrote: »
    they have quite a few actually

    That they do, but the problem with CIT isn't with, as you like to put it, "meeja" students, who for the most part are quite good at what they do. I'm an IT head but I've seen some good stuff from a number of multimedia students, both creative and technical.

    The problem with CIT is with the "mad yokes" who write things like Tiocfaidh Ar La on the jax walls, pimp their cars up like a bunch of nancy boys, and generally last three months in their course before packing it in. Just look around the common room any lunch time. The filth they leave after them is disgusting, and every one of them will be in a tracksuit sporting a one at the sides and a four on top (coincidence?) What's the harm in a multimedia student owning a MacBook? At least they don't leave their **** lying around the place for someone else to clean up.

    Can I ask OP what course you're doing that you've taken such a hatred to media heads, MacBooks and Cafe Fraiche?? Feeling a little disadvantaged today are we?? Or is it just that time of the month and you've nothing better to worry about other than where other people get their lunch??


  • #8
    Dankoozy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,115 ✭✭✭Dankoozy


    looks like the feckers are after opening again. strange. I wonder if they are any cheaper now


  • #9
    evil-monkey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,663 ✭✭✭evil-monkey


    Dankoozy wrote: »
    looks like the feckers are after opening again. strange. I wonder if they are any cheaper now

    Why would they be? As far as I could see, they were jointed pretty much 90% of the time last year.


  • #10
    philiporeilly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 602 ✭✭✭philiporeilly


    As far as I'm aware they are back to finish the remaining time on their lease. Who knows what happens after that!


  • #11
    Dankoozy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,115 ✭✭✭Dankoozy


    evil-monkey wrote: »
    Can I ask OP what course you're doing that you've taken such a hatred to media heads, MacBooks and Cafe Fraiche?? Feeling a little disadvantaged today are we?? Or is it just that time of the month and you've nothing better to worry about other than where other people get their lunch??

    i don't actually hate them but its fun to take the piss out of them. maybe when i finish the course i will go to some college in london and live that whole 'meeja head' lifestyle for a year but maybe just not spend quite as much on overpriced goods because that seems like such a waste :)

    the mad yokes will be gone after christmas and hopefully free up a few parking spaces


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  • #12
    liberal
    Closed Accounts Posts: 291 ✭✭liberal


    evil-monkey wrote: »
    That they do, but the problem with CIT isn't with, as you like to put it, "meeja" students, who for the most part are quite good at what they do. I'm an IT head but I've seen some good stuff from a number of multimedia students, both creative and technical.

    The problem with CIT is with the "mad yokes" who write things like Tiocfaidh Ar La on the jax walls, pimp their cars up like a bunch of nancy boys, and generally last three months in their course before packing it in. Just look around the common room any lunch time. The filth they leave after them is disgusting, and every one of them will be in a tracksuit sporting a one at the sides and a four on top (coincidence?) What's the harm in a multimedia student owning a MacBook? At least they don't leave their **** lying around the place for someone else to clean up.

    Can I ask OP what course you're doing that you've taken such a hatred to media heads, MacBooks and Cafe Fraiche?? Feeling a little disadvantaged today are we?? Or is it just that time of the month and you've nothing better to worry about other than where other people get their lunch??

    So true......how about if they brought back fees for mad yokes only


  • #13
    evil-monkey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,663 ✭✭✭evil-monkey


    Dankoozy wrote: »
    maybe when i finish the course i will go to some college in london and live that whole 'meeja head' lifestyle for a year

    Can I ask what course you are doing??


  • #14
    Signpost
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 757 ✭✭✭Signpost


    Panni + chips €4.25? Sounds about as overpriced as the other canteen (and there chips are far nicer!)


  • #15
    Den_M
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 907 ✭✭✭Den_M


    Dankoozy wrote: »
    The place was clearly aimed at iPhone-toting meeja students with a penchant for overpriced goods and services and there's not too many around in CIT thank god. even those lads are feeling the recession these days and need all their money for their contract with O2 and to buy a new MacBook air when the battery goes bad.

    The flip are you on about?

    Maybe it was aimed at those who wanted an alternative to queuing 20 minutes just to share the canteen with a bunch of Ugg boots and sweat pants wearing ponces.


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