Doughnut shops everywhere!

nerwen

Guess what guys?! There's another donut place. XD

Sticky fingers, next to Costa across from the Opera House. Popped in, had a boston creme. Same as all the other places, definitely not made in shop. Might be a good location though, so close to 2 coffee places.

TrustedApple

nerwen wrote: »

Guess what guys?! There's another donut place. XD

Sticky fingers, next to Costa across from the Opera House. Popped in, had a boston creme. Same as all the other places, definitely not made in shop. Might be a good location though, so close to 2 coffee places.

Thats 6 now !!!!!!.

We are going mad with donuts at the moment !!!!.

There Like the E cig and Head shops of years ago !!!

Water John

Wouldn't like to be approaching my bank manager with a great business idea. A donut shop at this stage.

limnam

TrustedApple wrote: »

Thats 6 now !!!!!!.

We are going mad with donuts at the moment !!!!.

There Like the E cig and Head shops of years ago !!!

haven't managed to try any of them yet.

Is there one that stands out or are they all much of muchness ?

Toto Wolfcastle

There was an interesting article in the Irish Times this week about the popularity of doughnuts. At this stage, unless you have something very different up your sleeve, you'd be mad to open a doughnut shop in Cork. It isn't big enough for all that competition. In Dublin, Offbeat is expanding and opening new shops pretty regularly, but no new brands have opened. The market is saturated and like Cork, Dublin isn't big enough to handle that level of competition.

https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/food-and-drink/peak-doughnut-when-will-the-craving-end-1.3125470?mode=amp

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All things realated

corkgsxr

As far as I know there all bought in doughnuts with a topping put on. Nothing special at all.

Go to likes of central roachestown top class cakes there. All made from scratch and fresh

nerwen

I've tried... most I think? The shack, oh my donut, sticky fingers, huckleberrys and that one by the Roundy.

Only one I've gone back for is a cinnamon sugar at the Shack, the rest have been way too overboard for me with toppings and/or fillings.

gimmick

Ali's Kitchen makes her own in house.

The likes of Huckleberrys is a gimmick and were it not for his very strong social media presence he would be circling the drain.

TrustedApple

gimmick wrote: »

Ali's Kitchen makes her own in house.

The likes of Huckleberrys is a gimmick and were it not for his very strong social media presence he would be circling the drain.

I said in the other thread that i seen they have started to move into order markets like milk shakes and iced coffees as the donut sales must be slowing down as i am like why do we need so many of these places ?.

theboringfox

I tried the coffee donut in the shack and was amazing.

competition drives prices down normally but they all have exact same pricing.

And they're very over priced at 3 euro.

My guess so far is The Shack will win out

GavRedKing

Huckleberrys were doing brilliant trade off their, IMO, sub-standard doughnuts for a while until the Shack opened up and forced Huckleberrys to bring their prices down and their quality up, I still prefer the Shack and its location is a lot easier to get too if youre in and around town but ya, everywhere you turn now a days is a bloody doughnut shop.

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2 shops within 5 minutes of my office in Dublin with another opening soon

Corholio

At least the doughnut shops are sort of a novelty shop and a bit different, the coffee shop implosion here is much more annoying imo. I know there's the 'jobs' argument, which is a bit easy to be honest, but it's cheapened the city a bit imo.

the beer revolu

Paola Nervous Vowel wrote: »

2 shops within 5 minutes of my office in Dublin with another opening soon

20 in Dublin city, I believe.

mikeybrennan

Big money in doughnuts isn't there?

whisky_galore

Must be the latest fad.

No wonder I see so many lardy children waddling around the place.

ScrubsfanChris

nerwen wrote: »

Guess what guys?! There's another donut place. XD

Sticky fingers, next to Costa across from the Opera House. Popped in, had a boston creme. Same as all the other places, definitely not made in shop. Might be a good location though, so close to 2 coffee places.

They come in from an outside bakery as plain doughnuts for around 30c a piece.
A bit a decorating and sugar, 3 euro please. They're nice but that price is inexcusable.

A cream-doughnut or eclair made fresh in my local bakery is only 1.70

TrustedApple

ScrubsfanChris wrote: »

They come in from an outside bakery as plain doughnuts for around 30c a piece.
A bit a decorating and sugar, 3 euro please. They're nice but that price is inexcusable.

A cream-doughnut or eclair made fresh in my local bakery is only 1.70

Thats business for you. Try to make as much money as you can.

Like you do know pizza if you say a Italian place that makes there own everything expect the cheese it costs at most 80c with toppings as the profit on pizza is crazy and way worse then donuts same with pasta you can make its so cheap.

Also making pizza balls is way easyer and less time then donuts as all you need to do is add everything to a large mixer add everything in stages to it leave it mix. Then leave it set put into a bag and then make into dough balls and leave them set so much easyer to make when you think of the mark up on them.

gimmick

Ya, the whole price thing. Internet people everywhere seem to hate either spending money, people making profits, or both.

The market seems to have been tested at €3 and it is working, so get over it. People seem to not realise that in order to open a business you must have staff paid, rates paid, insurance paid, themselves paid etc.

Its like giving out to the Lennox family for charging €2.40 for a bag of chips when the raw material costs approx €0.20c.

Markcheese

Supervalue in glanmire has old fashioned deep-fried doughnuts.. Plain or jam... And they're good... I think they make them in house..
. . So far I'm unimpressed with the doughnut shop offerings... Thick gloops of fondant icing (not glazed) and the doughnuts are very cake like (so they'll keep).. And 3 euros a pop..

D'Agger

GavRedKing wrote: »

Huckleberrys were doing brilliant trade off their, IMO, sub-standard doughnuts for a while until the Shack opened up and forced Huckleberrys to bring their prices down and their quality up, I still prefer the Shack and its location is a lot easier to get too if youre in and around town but ya, everywhere you turn now a days is a bloody doughnut shop.

Don't think Huckleberrys have brought prices down. The quality has gone up I would say in that they're trying hard to provide different types of tastes such as the Rebel Chilli collaboration, iced coffees & milkshakes but as somebody has mentioned, lots of the stuff is overkill - the one with the syringe sticking out of it is particularly gimmicky but that's just me.

whisky_galore wrote: »

Must be the latest fad.

No wonder I see so many lardy children waddling around the place.

They didn't get lardy in the last 6 months, don't think you can blame a nationwide health issue on one particular business type. It is a reflection on our culture right now though.

GavRedKing

D'Agger wrote: »

Don't think Huckleberrys have brought prices down. The quality has gone up I would say in that they're trying hard to provide different types of tastes such as the Rebel Chilli collaboration, iced coffees & milkshakes but as somebody has mentioned, lots of the stuff is overkill - the one with the syringe sticking out of it is particularly gimmicky but that's just me.

I havent been to Huckleberrys in about 3 months, I think it was 4 or 4.50 for a doughnut, someone in work said they had dropped their prices to 3 euro in recent times. Could be wrong, I havent been so was going off that info.

There is a serious markup to be made but the market in Cork is well and truly saturated as it is.

gimmick

gimmick wrote: »

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There is a serious markup to be made but the market in Cork is well and truly saturated as it is.

Unless the builders get a taste for the doughnuts

mire

But what I would hate to see is lots of doughnut shops opening up in the suburbs and all of the doughnut shops in the city centre closing. There's a name for that kind of phenomenon (?) and happens quite a lot in the United States of America...

D'Agger

GavRedKing wrote: »

I havent been to Huckleberrys in about 3 months, I think it was 4 or 4.50 for a doughnut, someone in work said they had dropped their prices to 3 euro in recent times. Could be wrong, I havent been so was going off that info.

There is a serious markup to be made but the market in Cork is well and truly saturated as it is.

They're €3 alright...fairly certain they've always been that price though since I would have gone in there early enough, been back once or twice and actually tried one of their milkshakes last week. Think that's the price around the city anyway - as Gimmick was saying - the price point seems to have found it's level alright.

€4.50 for a doughnut and I'd be forced to laugh...doughnutless...walking out the door!

bee06

Remember the good old days when you could get freshly made little doughnuts in the hole in the wall place by the Gingerbread House for maybe 1 Euro or 1.50.

KCAccidental

bee06 wrote: »

Remember the good old days when you could get freshly made little doughnuts in the hole in the wall place by the Gingerbread House for maybe 1 Euro or 1.50.

they were unreal

northgirl

4 doughnuts, either ring or jam for EUR1.50 in M&S are far nicer IMO than any of the elaborate new ones out there.

worded

Total **** food

Gamb!t

Passed Oh my Doughnut today who had a sign of "Just another f%%king Doughnut shop".

Harika

mire wrote: »

But what I would hate to see is lots of doughnut shops opening up in the suburbs and all of the doughnut shops in the city centre closing. There's a name for that kind of phenomenon (?) and happens quite a lot in the United States of America...

While the City Centre is over saturated, there is the perfect spot for one more in Blackpool shopping centre where the bakery was. Ideal to sell 300 freshly made donuts every day with all the hungry shoppers and businesses around.

BrianJD

I passed one today a drizzly Monday and there was 2 staff members inside on their phones looking very bored and there is no way they were going to sell half the products in their windows.

worded

A shop like the image ?

northgirl

northgirl wrote: »

4 doughnuts, either ring or jam for EUR1.50 in M&S are far nicer IMO than any of the elaborate new ones out there.

They might be expensive at 3 euro but they can't even be compared to the shop jam doughnuts, the doughnut shop ones are far far nicer. Some of them really are delicious with the chocolate or Boston creme inside and all the toppings etc.

Send In The Robots

Doughnut food = doughnut shaped human.

Malari

Brenna Putrid Armchair wrote: »

They might be expensive at 3 euro but they can't even be compared to the shop jam doughnuts, the doughnut ones are far far nicer. Some of them really are delicious with the chocolate or Boston creme inside and all the toppings etc.

I think that the actual doughnuts in some of the shops are the same as shop bought ones! I've only been to two of the shops, one time each, in the last 3-4 months. I find the ones that are filled with custard or nutella way too sweet and sickly, and there is far too much filling. I like the simpler jam ones, but not enough to justify paying €3 for one.

Murrisk

Anyone else not like elaborate doughnuts? IMO, they look better than they taste. They are often disappointing. Then again, I'm not the biggest doughnut fan. The best I've had are the simple sugared or chocolate-covered ring ones from the Rolling Donut stand on O'Connell Street in Dublin. Fried right there with freshly-made batter, 80c each. Boom, perfection. Simplicity is best when it comes to doughnuts, IMO.

mire

Some serious doughnut critiques on here. I don't agree with all of it, but I won't pick holes in it.

Murrisk

gimmick wrote: »

Ya, the whole price thing. Internet people everywhere seem to hate either spending money, people making profits, or both.

The market seems to have been tested at €3 and it is working, so get over it.

Well, enough to support a few donut shops. Whether the €3 model will support a proliferation of them remains to be seen. I personally think €3 is too expensive so I don't pay it. The product isn't worth the price for me. If many people think the same, then all the businesses won't survive at that price point and prices will have to drop. When there was only a few shops, there was probably enough people who thought the price was worth it for them to survive. There is also the novelty factor. People will pay more for something new. Once that wears off, sales might drop. We shall see.

Missyelliot2

Supervalu in Blackrock have jumped on the Doughnut craze - Oreo/Crunchie/Chocolate Orange etc doughnuts -€2.50 for fried dough.
I really hope the doughnut fad is shortlived....

the beer revolu

Missyelliot2 wrote: »

Supervalu in Blackrock have jumped on the Doughnut craze - Oreo/Crunchie/Chocolate Orange etc doughnuts -€2.50 for fried dough.
I really hope the doughnut fad is shortlived....

Why does it bother you?
You hope for businesses to fail?
That's pretty mean.

I have no interest, even turned down a free box from Huckleberry but why would I want it to be shortlived? The craze doesn't affect me in any way.

Missyelliot2

the beer revolu wrote: »

Why does it bother you?
You hope for businesses to fail?
That's pretty mean.

I have no interest, even turned down a free box from Huckleberry but why would I want it to be shortlived? The craze doesn't affect me in any way.

When did I say I wanted a business to fail?:rolleyes:

tedpan

Offbeat doughnuts are very tasty.

Are they not made in store, or is there some giant doughnut factory supplying all the new shops with more sugary treats?

gimmick

Missyelliot2 wrote: »

When did I say I wanted a business to fail?:rolleyes:

Thats what I read from what you said too. Hoping the craze goes, suggest to me that you want places to close down.

Not sure what difference it makes to you or anyone. Just do not buy them and thats your part of the bargain complete.

GavRedKing

Alis kitchen does a great doughnut, usually way more filling then what you'd get in any of the new fancy places too.

I get one if im in there for lunch but you'd never eat it right after eating.

D'Agger

GavRedKing wrote: »

Alis kitchen does a great doughnut, usually way more filling then what you'd get in any of the new fancy places too.

I get one if im in there for lunch but you'd never eat it right after eating.

Agreed, had a Boston creme after brunch there one day because I'm manlier than you Gav :pac:

I really like Alis, it's in a great spot too, I'd have been disgusted if my favourite bookshop from college times had been turned into a Starbucks or something soulless.

GavRedKing

D'Agger wrote: »

Agreed, had a Boston creme after brunch there one day because I'm manlier than you Gav :pac:

I really like Alis, it's in a great spot too, I'd have been disgusted if my favourite bookshop from college times had been turned into a Starbucks or something soulless.

I've only ever had the Nutella and after having brunch and knowing how heavy/filling it is, I left it off but if I was picking a doughnut from any place in town I'd go for Ali's over everywhere else, added bous is a good breakfast, lunch menu too if youre in the mood for either.

Malari

GavRedKing wrote: »

Alis kitchen does a great doughnut, usually way more filling then what you'd get in any of the new fancy places too.

I get one if im in there for lunch but you'd never eat it right after eating.

See, I already think they have way too much filling!

Almost everywhere is adding doughnuts to their repertoire now. Hassett's in the market have a tray of various fancy doughnuts - though personally I wouldn't look beyond their amazing danishes.

GavRedKing

Malari wrote: »

See, I already think they have way too much filling!

Almost everywhere is adding doughnuts to their repertoire now. Hassett's in the market have a tray of various fancy doughnuts - though personally I wouldn't look beyond their amazing danishes.

Ali's is usually just a sugar doughnut rammed packed with filling, some of the other newer places have a mountain of toppings and a tiny bit of filling.

The added bonus with Ali's is they make everything on site so at the very least, theyre fresh.

I think Ali's do muffins too and other pastries but I usually only get doughnuts and I've not got one since about March in their so I'm not up to speed as to what they offer.

pwurple

GavRedKing wrote: »

Ali's is usually just a sugar doughnut rammed packed with filling, some of the other newer places have a mountain of toppings and a tiny bit of filling.

The added bonus with Ali's is they make everything on site so at the very least, theyre fresh.

I think Ali's do muffins too and other pastries but I usually only get doughnuts and I've not got one since about March in their so I'm not up to speed as to what they offer.

They had an adorable green ring doughnut with gold sprinkles on it for st patrick's day. I like Ali's as well.

Some giggle one morning, a group came in and demanded 4 Full Irish's. Waitress had to tell them that wasn't on the menu. Much huffing and puffing and giving out about "what kind of place doesn't do a full Irish" before they packed up and left, leaving one of the groups queuing out the door have their table.