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O Briens Sandwich bars in examinership

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  • #32
    sunnyside
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,428 ✭✭✭sunnyside


    My name is URL wrote: »
    Not surprised. They overcharge for stale bread

    Definitely overpriced but I don't think they serve stale bread:)
    Run_to_da_hills wrote: »
    They never had the decency to have promos like Insomnia.

    Which is why I've been going to Insomnia around once a week for months now.
    latenia wrote: »
    The very last time I darkened their doors several years ago:


    "Would you like that toasted?"

    "Sure, why not?"

    "€6.50 please."

    "But the price says €5.50."

    "It's a euro extra to have it toasted."

    They charge extra for cheese too, I've never understood that.

    Plenty of people still buy coffee shop food, we just expect it to be reasonably good value.


  • #33
    spurious
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    What sort of sandwich were you getting for 6 euro?
    The odd time I'd get one it was 3.10 - a BLT on thick bread, with hot bacon.

    I think with O'Brien's it very much depended on the outlet. The one at the Abbey Street LUAS was always filthy. I always found the Irish Life Mall one good, though I was rarely there at rush hours.


  • #34
    Run_to_da_hills
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    sunnyside wrote: »
    Which is why I've been going to Insomnia around once a week for months now.
    That "Do the math promo" is over last Monday :mad:

    They still do pastries and a decent specialty coffee for €3.50.


  • #35
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 2,738 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    fúck them.

    I am glad.

    Ok faggóteers I know it will cause unemployment but I don't care.

    Happier to see these rip off merchant bastards bite the dust...


  • #36
    Trotter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,362 ✭✭✭Trotter


    Savage toasted ham, tomato, cheese and onion sandwich, and 2 lovely coffees.. €6.50.

    Where? Spain.

    If only we had bread, ham, tomatos, cheese and onions in Ireland.....

    HANG ON!!! :eek:


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  • #37
    AndyP
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 738 ✭✭✭AndyP


    Their coffee is satans urine (thats not good if anyone is wondering!)


  • #38
    Run_to_da_hills
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    Again, has anyone a good word to say about the place? :confused:


  • #39
    My name is URL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,626 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    sunnyside wrote: »
    Definitely overpriced but I don't think they serve stale bread:)

    They most certainly do! I don't mean moldy bread, just stale.. ie not fresh out of its packaging. It gets hard when its left out, even for an hour.

    For 6 euro it should be fresh out of the oven, let alone the bag =p


  • #40
    Degsy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,397 ✭✭✭✭Degsy


    People who would rather eat sandwiches than botherto feed themselves properly desreve to be overcharged.
    Places that overcharge deserve to go down the tubes.
    I hope this starts happening with the various rip-off pubs around the place although its a pity that the ordianary joe soaps have to lose thier jobs because of the greed of the owners.


  • #41
    Sleipnir
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,513 ✭✭✭Sleipnir


    latenia wrote: »
    The very last time I darkened their doors several years ago:


    "Would you like that toasted?"

    "Sure, why not?"

    "€6.50 please."

    "But the price says €5.50."

    "It's a euro extra to have it toasted."

    Me too after I was charged a euro to toast it. Couldn't believe it!


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  • #42
    Rusty Cogs 08
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 638 ✭✭✭Rusty Cogs 08


    Sleipnir wrote: »
    Me too after I was charged a euro to toast it. Couldn't believe it!

    Same for me, about 3 years ago, told the staff that the charge was ridiculous and never entered an O'Briens since.


  • #43
    Aidric
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,598 ✭✭✭✭Aidric


    It's always sad to see an Irish business hit the wall but they showed absolutely no willingness to adapt their pricing model. Charging twice the price for an equivalent sandwich in a deli. Will ye fcuk off.


  • #44
    DubTony
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,265 ✭✭✭DubTony


    It all came down to bad management at the top, and equally bad management (in many cases) in the stores.

    Simple things like keeping bread and food fresh isn't rocket science. If you're getting stale bread from any sandwich bar, it's cos it's not todays.


  • #45
    benj
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 292 ✭✭benj


    aaah my first coffee with my now wife....


  • #46
    LimeFruitGum
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    I thought they were alright for the occasional visit. I normally bring my own lunch to work but I'd sometimes go there for a change. I liked their Chicken Tikka but of course everyone offers that now.

    I'd say part of the reason O'Brien's lost it was down to Brody Sweeney swanning off to try his hand at politics last year; took his eye off the ball!


  • #47
    WeeBushy
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    Looks like I'm on my own in mourning here...

    Chicken and bacon triple decker, the reason I exist. Expensive, maybe, but if I eat nothing else for the rest of my life I would die a happy happy man. They're just unbelievably good.


  • #48
    LimeFruitGum
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,013 ✭✭✭LimeFruitGum


    WeeBushy wrote: »
    Looks like I'm on my own in mourning here...

    Chicken and bacon triple decker, the reason I exist. Expensive, maybe, but if I eat nothing else for the rest of my life I would die a happy happy man. They're just unbelievably good.


    Oh no, I'm with you on the chicken and bacon tripledecker :-)

    I did a course in NUI Maynooth a few years ago... we were a part time course based in the Hume building and by the time you made it out to the campus, we would only have a few mins to get a quick bite and coffee before class. Do you think the O'Briens there would stay open til 6pm while there were loads of hungry students in the buildng? Hell no! I can certainly ouch for the mess and filth in the eating section!!


  • #49
    decies
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    WeeBushy wrote: »
    Looks like I'm on my own in mourning here...

    Chicken and bacon triple decker, the reason I exist. Expensive, maybe, but if I eat nothing else for the rest of my life I would die a happy happy man. They're just unbelievably good.

    I did enjoy a few of them but hated only one side of each slice was toasted :mad:


  • #50
    mikemac
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    Good riddance

    Overpriced and lousy service


  • #51
    RxQueen
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    they're mayo taste's like an old folks home. That is all


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  • #52
    [Deleted User]
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    Oh crap

    Now where am I going to buy my lunch everyday???

    Anyone have any idea??

    /still lives in Celtic Tiger era


  • #53
    Paparazzo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,395 ✭✭✭Paparazzo


    A ham and cheese sandwich toasted was something like €6.50 in the one I went to a few weeks ago:eek:.

    I never understood how O'Briens was so successful, complete rip off merchants


  • #54
    Biggins
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    What happened? Did they run out of dough?


  • #55
    Papad
    Closed Accounts Posts: 220 ✭✭Papad


    My name is URL wrote: »
    Not surprised. They overcharge for stale bread

    And their coffee sucked.
    And they would look at you as if they were doing you a great service by 'serving' you.


  • #56
    Snowie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,048 ✭✭✭✭Snowie


    bad for people in jobs but to be honest i never ate there There tomatoes always looked about a day old, after being sliced...

    coffee was pretty Sh!t to


  • #57
    super_furry
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    Any meat with two fillings for €6.

    "Fine can I get ham cheese and coleslaw please.

    "That'll be €7, cheese is a meat."

    I'm sorry people lost their jobs but really, who didn't see this coming? Awful places charging stupid money with rude, unhelpful staff.


  • #58
    barakus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 399 ✭✭barakus


    the scatterings of the bottom of a bag of crisps they used to toss next to the sandwich used to really pi*s me off as well... talk about scabby for the price of the feckin thing!


  • #59
    super_furry
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    Biggins wrote: »
    What happened? Did they run out of dough?

    Weren't making enough bread at the tills.


  • #60
    Run_to_da_hills
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    Did anyone ever leave a tip in the saucer at that place? :confused:

    It seemed to be always empty


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  • #61
    herya
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    Run_to_da_hills wrote: »
    Did anyone ever leave a tip in the saucer at that place? :confused:

    It seemed to be always empty

    Maybe people were taking €1 from there each time when asked to pay extra for toasting?


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