Donut shops, EVERYWHERE!

I remember dunkin donuts in rathmines.....

Didn't last very long from what I remember.

Coffee shops seem to be the big trend and growing.

I see a lot of these doughnut shops get deliveries from same white vans.

lemmno wrote: »

So do these shops not bake the donuts on site? Or are they all getting delivered in from big factories somewhere every morning? Could it be then that the rolling donut and off beat are supplied by the same baker?

From what ive seen its all delivered in.

Could well be same factory or bakery for some.

They certainly all taste the same that's for sure. Nobody is selling anything unique. An overpriced donut and a crap coffee for €4-5?

Mokuba wrote: »

Decent coffee and a regular sized, nice tasting, simple enough donut that you don't need 2 hands to hold or 2 pages on which to list the toppings and fillings.

Ipso wrote: »

I worked in Boston for a summer, my breakfast was always a coffee and two coconut donuts from Dunkin Donuts. Loved it, the donuts that weren't full of cream were not too much.

These posts sum it up nicely. I started every morning with a Dunkin Donuts iced coffee when in Orlando for two weeks, I wouldn't always get a donut at breakfast but the odd evening we'd grab a box of 6 for $4 and there was a nice range to choose from..

Some days while taking a break from the theme parks for dinner we'd grab another iced coffee for going back to the parks for the evening.

I brought a bag of their french vanilla coffee home with me for the coffee press and it's actually quite nice. Their original blend isn't bad either.

They seem to try too hard over here, it's like they're trying to just get social media attention with the likes of the crap Lovin Dublin posts, when in reality it feels like your heart has stopped and you feel like crap afterwards.

I went into Supervalu today and bought one of those Oreo flavoured doughnuts one with a bit of change I had, tasted bloody awful, and they were 4 quid odd each! Whereas you could get a bag of 5 decent jam doughnuts for 1.50, I don't understand people. 20 euro for a box of 6 doughnuts!

MilesMorales1 wrote: »

I went into Supervalu today and bought one of those Oreo flavoured doughnuts one with a bit of change I had, tasted bloody awful, and they were 4 quid odd each! Whereas you could get a bag of 5 decent jam doughnuts for 1.50, I don't understand people. 20 euro for a box of 6 doughnuts!

Those Supervalu ones are terrible. In fact all the Supervalu baked goods I’ve tried have tasted like mass produced cheap s****e.

^^that was 20 years ago though.

Ireland, and Irish people, have changed a lot since then. I liked Dunkin's.

Although tbh, I don't seem them ever proliferating here like they have in the states, or indeed like Starbucks and Costa have over here. I do think that a few judiciously placed units, serving sandwiches and good coffee as well as doughnuts would probably do well enough. They should be well spaced out and not on every corner. That's what will kill them: oversaturation. A shop in each of the larger shopping centres would be fine I think.

And again, tastes change. They might get a good run for a decade, and then things change again and we're all back to knocking back wheatgrass shots

https://youtu.be/FSvNhxKJJyU

Cork is mad for them too.

The mad thing is, most of the ones I pass regularly seem to be doing f all business. So what gives?

lightspeed wrote: »

I was walking through city centre Dublin earlier and I couldnt help but notice about 5 new doughnut shops

Why?

I saw on facebook that the american doughnut shop krispykreme opened up a store in Dublin. Was this already trending before that or have other companies seen this and decided that they should copy and paste yet more American ****e here?

We seem to have become more americanised throughout the past decade. First black Friday despite us here having no reason to give a **** about thanksgiving here in Ireland.

Now this seems to be the latest hipster trend.

Where is Krispycreme?

Rackstar wrote: »

Where is the Krispykreme?

On the KrustyKaks.

And still none in Galway.

Why they do this to me??

I still have an email from March last year when I was whinging at KrispyKreme to open up here when I returned from London with my usual 12 box..

Maybe they should make me MD for the Irish branch....

I will gladly taste each doughnut before they go out... :P

Sorry OP, it's my fault entirely...