Why are there so many Starbucks in Dublin?

Vincent Vega

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entropi

Its because there are so many more hipsters in Dublin than anywhere else in Ireland. Their coffee is shite, the atmosphere in the room is hollow too. I much prefer going somewhere that sells good coffee and they don't need to write your name on a cup to remember who ordered what.

nala_rinaldo

Aard wrote: »

I can never understand why people have such difficulty accepting that Starbucks exists and that (shock horror) some people actually like going there.

It's a cafe, it's popular, get over it!

the question is why there are so many of them. there are even two starbuck right opposite each other on that westmoreland street.

nala_rinaldo

entropi wrote: »

Its because there are so many more hipsters in Dublin than anywhere else in Ireland. Their coffee is shite, the atmosphere in the room is hollow too. I much prefer going somewhere that sells good coffee and they don't need to write your name on a cup to remember who ordered what.

i actually like that they write your name on cup of coffe you order. but i realise that it might not be everyon’s cup of tea

Grayson

nala_rinaldo wrote: »

i actually like that they write your name on cup of coffe you order. but i realise that it might not be everyon’s cup of tea

Yep. I like to get the coffee I ordered.

nala_rinaldo

nala_rinaldo wrote: »

i actually like that they write your name on cup of coffe you order. but i realise that it might not be everyon’s cup of tea

Excuse me that's not your cup of tea that's mine!! :mad:

entropi

nala_rinaldo wrote: »

i actually like that they write your name on cup of coffe you order. but i realise that it might not be everyon’s cup of tea

I hope so, since they'll be serving up coffee

bnt

You think it's bad in Dublin? In downtown Vancouver, at one point during the 1990s, there were three Starbucks coffee shops at a single intersection i.e three of the four corner shops were Starbucks. By the time I visited there in 1999, one of them had closed, but still, I supposed it catered to folks too lazy to cross an intersection to get to a Starbucks.

edit: I just realised that I haven't been in to a Starbucks in Dublin at all. When travelling, it's a different story, but I prefer Costa if I'm in the UK.

krudler

Come to Canada, where Tim Hortons is everywhere, and I mean everywhere. I can list off a dozen places within 3 blocks of my apartment. The subway station near me has two of them, one on the ground floor entrance one directly underneath. Starbucks is nearly always busier though but there's not as many.

Lapin

takamichinoku wrote: »

Why are there so few Starbucks in Galway?

Not complaining at all, it's just pretty surprising there hasn't been one (ignoring the fake starbucks in the college, that's not a real starbucks).

I'm glad they're not in Galway and hope they never arrive.

One of the great attractions in the city is the number of locally owned cafés and little one off restaurants in every street.

It would be a shame to see places like Cross St, High St, Quay St etc being dominated by Starbucks, Costa and Insomnia.

Galway planners come in for a lot of stick, but in fairness they have (in the main) kept the conveniance stores away from the core of the city and prevented the place from being littered with the likes of Spar, Centra and Londis shops selling Cuisine de France muck that have destroyed much of the centre of Dublin.

As for the Starbucks in the university, I can never understand the people who queue there for ages to fork out nearly €3 for hot frothed milk with a suspicion of caffine when they can get perfectly good coffee a minute away in Smokies for less than half the price.

biko

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WilyCoyote

Just as like out here ......... because there are people who think it's the essence of cool to sit/walk around with a coffee in their hands. Or because they believe that they cannot function without having a hydrated crushed bean slurping around their tum-tums.

SpaceTime

Morag wrote: »

AT least Costa is irish owned and pays more taxes then Starbucks do

No it isn't. Costa is British and it's operated by a company in Cork who seem to have the entire Irish franchise.

bumper234

SpaceTime wrote: »

No it isn't. Costa is British and it's operated by a company in Cork who seem to have the entire Irish franchise.

Cost coffee?


Costa****infortune more like

takamichinoku

Have to say, not Starbucks in general but I love cafes, such an easy excuse and environment to meet a person for a nice chat but also quite easy to get away from said chat if it's crap. The coffee always seems to last about the length I want it to to keep the chat going and all.

SpaceTime

deadybai wrote: »

why is there Costa coffees everywhere outside Dublin and no starbucks outside Dublin. The prices in Costa are ridiculous. How they are so popular is beyond me.

There's a Starbucks in Mahon Point in Cork, fairly huge one.

Costa started out in Cork and Munster, the franchisee is based in Cork so, I guess that might explain it.

Starbucks also made a lot of errors when it opened its own stores in Dublin then paused rollout during the deepest part of the economic crisis. So I think the Costa franchise just had a very long head start.

No harm tbh, Starbucks isn't all that fantastic and I'm not keen on them squeezing everyone else out.

Cork, Dublin and Galway etc have some nice independent coffee shops wouldn't like to see them pushed our for a bland global chain.

smellmepower

How the hell are people who go to Starbucks considered hipsters?its not some niche, jazz playing independent coffee shop staffed by starving ortists,its a bland multi-national chain in the same vein as McDonalds,Burger King,Subway etc.

beks101

krudler wrote: »

Come to Canada, where Tim Hortons is everywhere, and I mean everywhere. I can list off a dozen places within 3 blocks of my apartment. The subway station near me has two of them, one on the ground floor entrance one directly underneath. Starbucks is nearly always busier though but there's not as many.

And way WAYYY cheaper, I'd say you could get four French Vanilla lattes in Tims for the cost of one in Starbucks, probably throw in a few cheap and nasty blueberry fritters with that too.

Second Cup is the business. I miss Second Cup.

krudler

beks101 wrote: »

And way WAYYY cheaper, I'd say you could get four French Vanilla lattes in Tims for the cost of one in Starbucks, probably throw in a few cheap and nasty blueberry fritters with that too.

Second Cup is the business. I miss Second Cup.

Haven't tried Second Cup yet, and there's one literally around the corner from me so might later. Starbucks is crazy expensive and their coffee is meh, McDonalds or Tim Hortons are much nicer. A large coffee and donut in Tims costs $2.85, you wouldnt even get a medium coffee for that in Starbucks.

veetwin

TheZohan wrote: »

Which is pretty average in Starbucks case, but a lot better than some of the muck served up as coffee in some places.

I'm curious. Which coffee chain/shop in your opinion serves worse coffee than Starbucks?

anncoates

Don't really like their stuff but their proliferation does at least annoy the type of people that have a cretinous pride in not being 'sheep' which is something.

krudler

krudler wrote: »

Come to Canada, where Tim Hortons is everywhere, and I mean everywhere. I can list off a dozen places within 3 blocks of my apartment. The subway station near me has two of them, one on the ground floor entrance one directly underneath. Starbucks is nearly always busier though but there's not as many.

Tim hortons donuts are tasty

UCDVet

Supply and Demand.

diomed

Some people want to be on display. For a small fee they can sit outside with a coffee and look like they are having a good time.

beks101

bluewolf wrote: »

Tim hortons donuts are tasty

Oh yeah and so cheap in Canada it's dangerous. If you order more than three they automatically try to pimp out their "6 for 5 bucks" - "you want a box?". Went in there after a long work shift one night and somehow found myself walking out with a box of 12...was sure I had diabetes when I woke up the next morning.

krudler

bluewolf wrote: »

Tim hortons donuts are tasty

Hell yeah they are, its hard to not want one every day cos they're so cheap. Plus their special/limited donuts, a donut with Oreo biscuit on top and coated with Oreo cream filling?

http://d2x3wmakafwqf5.cloudfront.net/wordpress/wp-content/blogs.dir/61/files/2014/06/tim-hortons-Oreo-Donut1.png

Links234

**** it, I like Starbucks. I prefer a good non-chain coffee shop, but I'm not gonna take every chance to moan about the chains either, and sometimes I'm just as happy to get Starbucks as some other little shop.

Aw that's mean I want donuts now

e_e

Links234 wrote: »

**** it, I like Starbucks. I prefer a good non-chain coffee shop, but I'm not gonna take every chance to moan about the chains either, and sometimes I'm just as happy to get Starbucks as some other little shop.

Exactly, plus it's a good cheap place to go to that has wi-fi. Grand if you're out and have time to kill before something else.

Links234

krudler wrote: »

Hell yeah they are, its hard to not want one every day cos they're so cheap. Plus their special/limited donuts, a donut with Oreo biscuit on top and coated with Oreo cream filling?

http://d2x3wmakafwqf5.cloudfront.net/wordpress/wp-content/blogs.dir/61/files/2014/06/tim-hortons-Oreo-Donut1.png

When I was Japanside, it was all about Mister Donut. It was exactly what you expect, coffee and wall to wall donuts

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-D4Z5Sua-zfs/UbTSs1kmTVI/AAAAAAAAFE4/wbLQSZVOOz4/s1600/30+MisDo.jpg http://blog-imgs-42.fc2.com/t/o/k/tokyofood/20120223113507ef9.jpg

Massive selection and some of the god damn tastiest donuts I have ever had, ever.