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Donut shops, EVERYWHERE!

joe stodge

Lads, I like donuts and all but what has happened to Dublin City?
there's donut shops everywhere!

I pass 5 on my way to work, they're popping up like poxy Starbucks!

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punisher5112

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

punisher5112 wrote: »

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.

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?

punisher5112

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.

lemmno

punisher5112 wrote: »

From what ive seen its all delivered in.

Could well be same factory or bakery for some.

No wonder they’re everywhere then, if all they’re doing is buying and reselling. No huge fixed asset costs and less overheads with the goods being baked using someone else’s electricity!

_Dara_

punisher5112 wrote: »

From what ive seen its all delivered in.

Could well be same factory or bakery for some.

Well, Aungier Danger doesn't bake on-site but they do have their own baking facility, AFAIK.

lemmno

_Dara_ wrote: »

Well, Aungier Danger doesn't bake on-site but they do have their own baking facility, AFAIK.

Ah so they are baking their own donuts, just elsewhere. Dammit...I knew this fool proof business plan had to have a flaw in it somewhere!

DaveyDave

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.

TrustedApple

Haha 4 usd for 6 donuts what part of the state's is that ?.

Where I am nitro iced coffee is 6 USD for one I nearly die paying that much for a coffee.

I can think you this in sd a cookie is between 2 to 3 usd. One scoop of ice cream is 5 USD ice cream is so cheap in Ireland compare to this.

And a take out samdwitch is 12 usd the next person who tells me cork is over priced I am going to slap them on the head with sowmthing.

MilesMorales1

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!

punisher5112

Some of them are nice but the profits must be huge.

Recession well and truly over.

Only thing is when we go to get a doughnut in a few years they will be all gone.

lemmno

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.

uck51js9zml2yt

Those of you who mentioned Dunkin Donuts are obviously too young to remember.
We had the shops in Dublin in the 90's and they flopped. Grafton st, Janelle SC in Finglas, rathmines, the square and UCD
They moved to petrol stations in the guise of "on the run" @esso and failed again.

DoozerT6

^^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

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lightspeed

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.

Hande hoche!

Cork is mad for them too.

The_Valeyard

Mmmmmmmmmmm Donuts

Beechwoodspark

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

Rackstar

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 the Krispykreme?

Ipso

Donuts are so December 4th, if you're not eating cronuts then you're a mainstream sheep.

OldMrBrennan83

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Rackstar

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?

Tzardine

I tried two of the donut shops over the past couple of weeks. Offbeat donuts and Aungier Danger. Both of them were fantastic.

There is nothing worse than when you buy a donut in a garage or a shop and when you bit into it discover its about two days old. The ones in these new donut shops are so fresh.

Krispy Kreme is not open yet AFAIK. The first one to open is going to be in Blanch shopping centre I believe.

Zaph

Rackstar wrote: »

Where is the Krispykreme?

It hasn't opened yet, but it will be opening in the Blanchardstown Centre.

PowerToWait

The donut craze is driven by Instagram.

It's actually that fūcking bad out there.

endacl

Rackstar wrote: »

Where is the Krispykreme?

On the KrustyKaks.

blondeonblonde

Tzardine wrote: »

I tried two of the donut shops over the past couple of weeks. Offbeat donuts and Aungier Danger. Both of them were fantastic.

There is nothing worse than when you buy a donut in a garage or a shop and when you bit into it discover its about two days old. The ones in these new donut shops are so fresh.

Krispy Kreme is not open yet AFAIK. The first one to open is going to be in Blanch shopping centre I believe.

I was utterly unimpressed by Aungier Danger, it wasn't particularly soft and the toppings are way over the top. Sometimes less is more!

retro:electro

And still none in Galway.

Why they do this to me??

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holding out for gf ones

[Deleted User]

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...

Insect Overlord

anna080 wrote: »

And still none in Galway.

Why they do this to me??

Dungeons 'n' Donuts is there, a 2 minute walk from the middle of Shop Street.