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Why are there so many Starbucks in Dublin?

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,655 ✭✭✭Faith+1


    lertsnim wrote: »
    I've nver been in one. I don't drink tea or coffee though.

    Not even Tea! My god!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,115 ✭✭✭asteroids over berlin


    I dislike Starbucks, I get a very Asian addiction vibe going on in them (not because there are lots of Asians in there), I keep picturing those dance like a maniac arcade games everytime I walk by one, I dislike franchise's in general, fcuk Spar! mcdonalds are ok, I like milkshakes!

    yeah fcuk starucks, avoid!

    Bring back Tik and Tok, yeah!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,133 ✭✭✭FloatingVoter


    Never been in one. Heard all the jokes. I'm often down near College Green but if I need free wi-fi I'll drop into a pub instead and have either a cheaper coffee or a pint.
    That said, I'd go into one without hesitation if the need arose.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 664 ✭✭✭Yer Aul One


    I read somewhere that the majority of the franchises in Ireland are owned by Butlers

    **Correction, just two lads called Butler, not the choclatiers


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,941 ✭✭✭maxwell smart


    Morag wrote: »
    AT least Costa is irish owned and pays more taxes then Starbucks do

    Costa is run exactly the same as Starbucks in Ireland. Both are franchises and (I would imagine) both pay taxes. The fact that Starbucks don't pay taxes (or very little) in the UK is not relevant here in Ireland as they sold the operation to an Irish team a couple of years ago.

    Costa is a UK owned company and the franchise here is run (I think) by the same people who run KFC. So it must be great coffee altogether!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,232 ✭✭✭marklazarcovic


    Lapin wrote: »
    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.


    is a starbucks opening on shop street very shortly


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,971 ✭✭✭Holsten


    I like the odd Starbucks coffee now and then, very expsensive though.

    I'd rather have another Starbucks than yet another empty shop front.


  • Moderators, Politics Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 16,799 Mod ✭✭✭✭Quin_Dub


    I drink plain black coffee and Starbucks is by far the worst tasting coffee I've ever had...

    To be fair, all of the "chain" coffee shops have muck plain coffee, it's overdone , burnt dishwater , but Starbucks definitely leads the pack in crap basic coffee..

    Most people though are ordering the fluffy,frothy stuff , anything would taste nicer drowned in Caramel, hazelnut macchiato or some other creamy sickly sweet concoction.

    If I do end up going into these places with someone I almost never order coffee , I get a smoothie or something, just can't stand the coffee.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,180 ✭✭✭EyeSight


    Quin_Dub wrote: »
    I drink plain black coffee and Starbucks is by far the worst tasting coffee I've ever had...

    To be fair, all of the "chain" coffee shops have muck plain coffee, it's overdone , burnt dishwater , but Starbucks definitely leads the pack in crap basic coffee..

    Most people though are ordering the fluffy,frothy stuff , anything would taste nicer drowned in Caramel, hazelnut macchiato or some other creamy sickly sweet concoction.

    If I do end up going into these places with someone I almost never order coffee , I get a smoothie or something, just can't stand the coffee.

    I got one in costa before for around 5 euros. It was either frozen yogurt or cream mixed with loads of syrup and then blended. Not one piece of fruit in it. Disgusting.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,706 ✭✭✭sadie06


    If you stick with this till the end, Dylan explains it all!


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  • Moderators, Politics Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 16,799 Mod ✭✭✭✭Quin_Dub


    EyeSight wrote: »
    I got one in costa before for around 5 euros. It was either frozen yogurt or cream mixed with loads of syrup and then blended. Not one piece of fruit in it. Disgusting.

    Yep.. Some of them are awful - I don't go in very often, 2 or 3 times a year in total I'd say...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,302 ✭✭✭JohnMearsheimer


    The last time I was in Dublin I couldn't get over the number of Starbucks outlets there were. I don't mind Starbucks, I prefer it to Costa. Some of the Starbucks outlets I've visited in the US have had a relaxing vibe to them.

    We only have one in Cork out in Mahon Point. It's been very busy every time I've been there/passed there. It must be doing insane business. I'm not too mad about the atmosphere in the Cork Starbucks. It's location isn't too pedestrian friendly, someone is going to get mowed down one of these days.

    Tim Horton's in Canada was great. I'd always stop by when getting the Skytrain home. I think it was $3 for a coffee and a doughnut. That's about €2.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,712 ✭✭✭cloudatlas


    The coffee is gross but there are very few places you can sit in for hours without getting evils from staff so that's why i find myself going back there.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,062 ✭✭✭Tarzana


    biko wrote: »

    "We're becoming a Starbucks in five minutes."


  • Posts: 2,884 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    No Starbuck in my home city - but I think they might test one in Milano but I think it will not work.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 420 ✭✭daUbiq


    LostBoy101 wrote: »
    Their coffee is vastly overrated.

    It is dreadful but the coffee in most coffee shops in Dublin is also dreadful.. I'd recommend anyone who believes Starbucks coffee is good try a coffee from the coffee shop at the junction of Pembroke road and Lansdowne road. I've been going there for about 18 months, the coffee is fantastic.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,719 ✭✭✭Heroditas


    daUbiq wrote: »
    It is dreadful but the coffee in most coffee shops in Dublin is also dreadful.. I'd recommend anyone who believes Starbucks coffee is good try a coffee from the coffee shop at the junction of Pembroke road and Lansdowne road. I've been going there for about 18 months, the coffee is fantastic.


    The place in the little kiosk?

    Personally, I like Eataly on Pembroke Street beside Pablo Picante whenever I'm in that neck of the woods. There always seems to be Italians buying their coffee there when I pop in so maybe that's a good sign!


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 49 Faux Socialist


    The thing I found hilarious about a coffee shop called Insomnia was that it closed at 6 pm!:eek::)

    My local independently owned coffee shop serves Java Republic coffee which is really nice and totally Irish-owned for those that care about such things.

    I wonder if all of those people that despise Starbucks also have the same hatred (and refuse to set foot in) for Tescos, Dunnes Stores, Centra etc. They are all just chain stores or franchises at the end of the day. No need to get one's undergarments in a bunch![/QUOTE]

    I have no problem with Tesco stores or Dunnes stores opening in every neighborhood but i do have a problem with Starbucks opening up on every street corner and even on opposite street corners.

    cloudatlas wrote: »
    The coffee is gross but there are very few places you can sit in for hours without getting evils from staff so that's why i find myself going back there.

    One of the reasons i hate the place!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 420 ✭✭daUbiq


    LostBoy101 wrote: »
    Their coffee is vastly overrated.

    It is dreadful but the coffee in most coffee shops in Dublin is also dreadful.. I'd recommend anyone who believes Starbucks coffee is good try a coffee from the coffee shop at the junction of Pembroke road and Lansdowne road. I've been going there for about 18 months, the coffee is fantastic.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,758 ✭✭✭✭TeddyTedson


    I like Starbucks and often pop in, however on Monday I was in a small privately owned local coffee shop and then Starbucks not so long after. This small coffee shop is beside me so I'm regularly in it and know they serve great coffee but I couldn't believe just how much better I thought it was than Starbucks, considering I really enjoy their coffee also.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,712 ✭✭✭cloudatlas


    Yes I suppose the whole idea of going for coffee is that you get great coffee. Their filter coffee that they provide free refills for is disgusting I had to take indigestion tablets afterwards.

    I just get the really cheap chai tea and save the bag and ask for hot water. If I want to go for good coffee then I know where to go but there aren't many places with good coffee that are large enough to sit in for hours getting some work done.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 100 ✭✭Googleyes


    franchise shop is easier to open and make money on than make a new business from beginning. no need to worry about systems, shop name those type of things.

    Starbucks is not a franchise company


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 13 boostenergy


    because ithey are for the hipsters and the yocks with the designer suits and brief cases.

    It is the same in Belfast, I stay clear of cities as I am not comfortable in such an environment, I prefer the smell of turf in the countryside.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,641 ✭✭✭✭Elmo


    Would ye every get back to drinking tea!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 214 ✭✭guest2014


    daUbiq wrote: »
    It is dreadful but the coffee in most coffee shops in Dublin is also dreadful.. I'd recommend anyone who believes Starbucks coffee is good try a coffee from the coffee shop at the junction of Pembroke road and Lansdowne road. I've been going there for about 18 months, the coffee is fantastic.

    you dont own the coffee shops at the junction of Pembroke road and Lansdowne road by any chance?:rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,712 ✭✭✭cloudatlas


    Compared with Greggs Starbucks is not that prolific. Seems to be a Greggs every square mile in the U.K. No wonder they're mostly all fatties.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 728 ✭✭✭pueblo


    33 stores in Co Dublin! :mad:

    I make it 37 in Co Dublin?! http://www.starbucks.ie/store-locator/search/location/dublin


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,735 ✭✭✭Vincent Vega


    4 more since i posted?!? that was quick! :pac:
    When i made my count the map didn't even have the 2nd Dún Laoghaire one marked.
    'Tis madness anyway.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,412 ✭✭✭Shakespeare's Sister


    What Dublin could really do with is Spars.

    I lived in Ringsend a few years ago and there was a Spar in Sandymount, a big one in Irishtown, a small one in Ringsend, a big one on Grand Canal Dock, a big one by Google, and then Pearse Street started.
    FFS, how could anyone deem that a sufficient number of Spars?! :mad:


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,735 ✭✭✭Vincent Vega


    I would never have noticed!
    I rarely even notice whether if it's a Centra, Spar or Londis when i'm in these places.
    That's quite a few in close proximity.

    I guess you could say the owners are.....

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    ( •_•)>⌐■-■

    (⌐■_■)
    spar-ring partners.


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