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Limerick Businesses Opening

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    #4562
    dunworth1
    Registered Users Posts: 5,301 ✭✭✭dunworth1


    Vanquished wrote:
    Application lodged for a drive-thru KFC at the Ennis Road retail park. On that vacant site across from the Gaelic Grounds.


    That's great we needed a KFC out this side


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    #4563
    zulutango
    Registered Users Posts: 3,903 ✭✭✭zulutango


    Vanquished wrote:
    Application lodged for a drive-thru KFC at the Ennis Road retail park. On that vacant site across from the Gaelic Grounds.


    How many junk food joints is that in the area now?


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    #4564
    dunworth1
    Registered Users Posts: 5,301 ✭✭✭dunworth1


    zulutango wrote:
    How many junk food joints is that in the area now?

    3 currently

    Supermacs, McDonald's and rios
    KFC opening will make 4

    Don't see anything wrong with it more choice for the weekly visit


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    #4565
    ongarboy
    Registered Users Posts: 5,201 ✭✭✭ongarboy


    dunworth1 wrote: »
    3 currently

    Supermacs, McDonald's and rios
    KFC opening will make 4

    Don't see anything wrong with it more choice for the weekly visit

    The problem of course is that some will visit all 4 every week!!:p:p


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    #4566
    Jofspring
    Registered Users Posts: 4,012 ✭✭✭Jofspring


    Passed Rios (Ennis road) tonight at 7:45pm and it was all closed up. Found that strange on a Saturday evening.


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    #4567
    Exeggcute
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    zulutango wrote: »
    How many junk food joints is that in the area now?

    Junkfood nation. No wonder we are on course to be the most obese nation in Europe.


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    #4568
    Cookiemunster
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 11,897 Mod ✭✭✭✭Cookiemunster


    Exeggcute wrote: »
    Junkfood nation. No wonder we are on course to be the most obese nation in Europe.

    Yes, because the proliferation of US fast food outlets is unique to Ireland :rolleyes:


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    #4569
    bazz26
    Registered Users Posts: 51,161 ✭✭✭✭bazz26


    Just pass them by if you don't want to eat their food.


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    #4570
    zulutango
    Registered Users Posts: 3,903 ✭✭✭zulutango


    Cookiemunster wrote:
    Yes, because the proliferation of US fast food outlets is unique to Ireland


    What do you reckon the reasons are?


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    #4571
    Cookiemunster
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 11,897 Mod ✭✭✭✭Cookiemunster


    zulutango wrote: »
    What do you reckon the reasons are?

    The reasons are numerous. Lack of excercise, portion sizes, processed food, supermarkets selling cheap junk food and sugar laden drinks cheaper that fresh produce are just some.

    Fast food restuarants are prolific everywhere. I was recently in Budapest. You couldn't find a street that didn't have at least one of McDonalds/KFC/Burger King/Subway on it. The same can be said of the UK, Poland, Germany, France, Netherlands. All countries I've visited in the last 2 years. As I said the proliferation of US fast food outlets is not unique to Ireland.


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    #4572
    zulutango
    Registered Users Posts: 3,903 ✭✭✭zulutango


    Cookiemunster wrote:
    Fast food restuarants are prolific everywhere. I was recently in Budapest. You couldn't find a street that didn't have at least one of McDonalds/KFC/Burger King/Subway on it. The same can be said of the UK, Poland, Germany, France, Netherlands. All countries I've visited in the last 2 years. As I said the proliferation of US fast food outlets is not unique to Ireland.


    I wonder what the proliferation is per capita. Those cities and countries have big and dense populations. I'd imagine I'm a lot of those places they're satisfying a tourist demand also.


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    #4573
    Exeggcute
    Closed Accounts Posts: 402 ✭✭Exeggcute


    Cookiemunster wrote: »
    The reasons are numerous. Lack of excercise, portion sizes, processed food, supermarkets selling cheap junk food and sugar laden drinks cheaper that fresh produce are just some.

    Fast food restuarants are prolific everywhere. I was recently in Budapest. You couldn't find a street that didn't have at least one of McDonalds/KFC/Burger King/Subway on it. The same can be said of the UK, Poland, Germany, France, Netherlands. All countries I've visited in the last 2 years. As I said the proliferation of US fast food outlets is not unique to Ireland.

    Yeah nobody made that claim in this thread.


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    #4574
    zulutango
    Registered Users Posts: 3,903 ✭✭✭zulutango


    bazz26 wrote: »
    Just pass them by if you don't want to eat their food.

    Maybe the junk food should be taxed to the hilt to compensate for the taxes spent dealing with the chronic health issues of obese people.


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    #4575
    bazz26
    Registered Users Posts: 51,161 ✭✭✭✭bazz26


    zulutango wrote: »
    Maybe the junk food should be taxed to the hilt to compensate for the taxes spent dealing with the chronic health issues of obese people.

    Cigarettes and alcohol are taxed heavily too but we still have chronic health issues from both so slapping a higher tax on everything seldom solves these problems.


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    #4576
    johnnyryan89
    Registered Users Posts: 8,760 ✭✭✭johnnyryan89


    zulutango wrote: »
    Maybe the junk food should be taxed to the hilt to compensate for the taxes spent dealing with the chronic health issues of obese people.

    While we are at it should start handing out fines to those who are overweight and don t get any or enough exercise a week.


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    #4577
    theblackstuff
    Registered Users Posts: 112 ✭✭theblackstuff


    Frocks & Frills opened up in Castletroy Shopping Centre, Meadows and Byrne was due to open at the weekend...

    A few more units being fitted out and others reserved...


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    #4578
    zulutango
    Registered Users Posts: 3,903 ✭✭✭zulutango


    bazz26 wrote: »
    Cigarettes and alcohol are taxed heavily too but we still have chronic health issues from both so slapping a higher tax on everything seldom solves these problems.

    It doesn't solve them, but the tax goes a long way towards paying for the consequences.


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    #4579
    Mc Love
    Registered Users Posts: 14,015 ✭✭✭✭Mc Love


    theblackstuff wrote: »
    Frocks & Frills opened up in Castletroy Shopping Centre, Meadows and Byrne was due to open at the weekend...

    A few more units being fitted out and others reserved...

    Great news for Castletroy - now Jetland needs a few more places opened


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    #4580
    Pandiani
    Registered Users Posts: 417 ✭✭Pandiani


    theblackstuff wrote: »
    Meadows and Byrne was due to open at the weekend...

    Sign on the door yesterday saying it was opening today. The shop looked fully kitted out.


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    #4581
    bazz26
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    zulutango wrote: »
    It doesn't solve them, but the tax goes a long way towards paying for the consequences.

    Does it though, all it does is shovel more money into the bottomless pit that is the Irish health system. Anyway this is gone way off topic at this stage.


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    #4582
    zulutango
    Registered Users Posts: 3,903 ✭✭✭zulutango


    bazz26 wrote: »
    Does it though, all it does is shovel more money into the bottomless pit that is the Irish health system. Anyway this is gone way off topic at this stage.

    What's the alternative? Smokers pay the full and direct costs of their choice to smoke? Or should everybody else pay?


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    #4583
    bazz26
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    I wish there was a quick and easy answer to that.


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    #4584
    OfTheMarsWongs
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    Just saw on Facebook that O'Sullivans Pharmacy are moving into the old Munster store.


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    #4585
    phog
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    OfTheMarsWongs wrote: »
    Just saw on Facebook that O'Sullivans Pharmacy are moving into the old Munster store.

    Moving or opening another store? I thought they had a great location on Sarsfield St corner.


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    #4586
    salamanca22
    Registered Users Posts: 1,179 ✭✭✭salamanca22


    zulutango wrote: »
    What's the alternative? Smokers pay the full and direct costs of their choice to smoke? Or should everybody else pay?

    If we operated that way we would be like the US where having something as common as cancer will bankrupt you unless you are paying thousands a year for health insurance.

    Why should someone who has cancer from smoking not be covered and someone who has cancer from spending to much time in the sun be covered? It gets real murky right? Both were conscious decisions.

    It's not a pick and choose system, if one person is covered under our health system then everyone should be. By adding qualifiers to the system you might as well scrap the whole thing.


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    #4587
    OfTheMarsWongs
    Registered Users Posts: 925 ✭✭✭OfTheMarsWongs


    phog wrote: »
    Moving or opening another store? I thought they had a great location on Sarsfield St corner.

    Moving apparently. Maybe there's a bigger market for Brut and Lynx aftershave a block up?

    https://m.facebook.com/179583348748703/photos/a.192066324167072.42905.179583348748703/1907704875936533/?type=3&source=48


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    #4588
    Poxyshamrock
    Registered Users Posts: 4,839 ✭✭✭Poxyshamrock


    OfTheMarsWongs wrote: »
    phog wrote: »
    Moving or opening another store? I thought they had a great location on Sarsfield St corner.

    Moving apparently. Maybe there's a bigger market for Brut and Lynx aftershave a block up?

    https://m.facebook.com/179583348748703/photos/a.192066324167072.42905.179583348748703/1907704875936533/?type=3&source=48

    Time to get the wrecking ball to that corner unit on O'Connell Street then? Put something in there that maximises the space and location?


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    #4589
    OfTheMarsWongs
    Registered Users Posts: 925 ✭✭✭OfTheMarsWongs


    Poxyshamrock wrote: »
    Time to get the wrecking ball to that corner unit on O'Connell Street then? Put something in there that maximises the space and location?

    Wouldn't look great empty over the Christmas or an extended period of time. Hopefully whatever's happening happens fast.


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    #4590
    phog
    Registered Users Posts: 23,966 ✭✭✭✭phog


    OfTheMarsWongs wrote: »
    Moving apparently. Maybe there's a bigger market for Brut and Lynx aftershave a block up?

    https://m.facebook.com/179583348748703/photos/a.192066324167072.42905.179583348748703/1907704875936533/?type=3&source=48
    Poxyshamrock wrote: »
    Time to get the wrecking ball to that corner unit on O'Connell Street then? Put something in there that maximises the space and location?

    Ah, that move might make more sense, I thought it was O'Sullivan's on the corner of Sarsfield St & Liddy St.


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    #4591
    Vanquished
    Registered Users Posts: 1,023 ✭✭✭Vanquished


    That entire O'Connell Street block is pretty miserable. It's been butchered so badly since the 1970s that it's no longer of any architectural merit. The only building worth retaining is the art deco style Permanent TSB. Bank of Ireland did a reasonable job of updating their horriffic brown brick atrocity a couple of years back but it still looks like a building more suited to a suburban office park than an important city centre corner site.

    A complete redevelopment of the block was suggested back around 2008. But with many different property owners involved it would be a difficult feat to accomplish. We've seen how incredibly stubborn Dunnes Stores are in these situations. Happy to sit on deteriorating properties rather than sell them off.

    The O'Connell Street/Sarsfield Street corner would certainly benefit from appropriate redevelopment. The current building is at least a storey too short and fails to maximise the site footprint. A replacement in traditional style would work well here.

    The O'Connell Street/Roches Street corner is another mess but it'd be tough enough to shift the Chicken Hut I'd imagine!


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