O'Briens goes into liquidation

Danbo! · 07-10-2009 10:20PM

Didn't this happen months ago?

starbelgrade · 07-10-2009 10:21PM

sunnyside wrote: »

I expect that many people who moan about the price of sandwiches buy a box of cigarettes a day. Same cost.

You obviously don't smoke.

TerrorFirmer · 07-10-2009 10:21PM

Joey the lips wrote: »

i love how the irish spend many a thread berating the irish businesses. Yes his sandwhich was 6-7 euro but I would rather pay that for a healthy snack than 3.99 for a heart attack in a fast food resturant. As stated by someone also his prices were not dissimular to subway which was an american franchise.

This is another sad downturn. I would have loved to see the business saved. It seems that it like organic veg is destined to be the business of the noughties.

A subway foot long is about 3 times as filling as any sandwich I ever got in O Briens. Not to mention, Subway have the sub of the day amongst other things for 2.99, which is pretty decent value. I don't know why you equate 3.99 with heart attack either, Dunnes/Super Valu/etc do perfectly fine sandwiches for 2.99, or less on some occassions. There's also plenty of sit down places you'd get a sandwich and decent side portion of wedges/chips (or extra salad) for the same price...some places in town offer sandwich, tea and soup for 5 - 6 euro....so no, no sympathy for O Briens, really, with its healthy heart saving sandwiches.

starbelgrade · 07-10-2009 10:22PM

Stee wrote: »

Didn't this happen months ago?

No - they went into recivership a while back.

Sharpshooter · 07-10-2009 10:22PM

sunnyside wrote: »

And why did Abrakebabra want to buy o'Briens? What would a kebab shop be doing with posh sandwiches

Doorstops?

slipss · 07-10-2009 10:35PM

Overpriced, unoriginal, mediocre tasting and horrible service. It's a miracle they lasted as long as they did.

Joey the lips · 07-10-2009 10:35PM

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

A subway foot long is about 3 times as filling as any sandwich I ever got in O Briens. Not to mention, Subway have the sub of the day amongst other things for 2.99, which is pretty decent value. I don't know why you equate 3.99 with heart attack either, Dunnes/Super Valu/etc do perfectly fine sandwiches for 2.99, or less on some occassions. There's also plenty of sit down places you'd get a sandwich and decent side portion of wedges/chips (or extra salad) for the same price...some places in town offer sandwich, tea and soup for 5 - 6 euro....so no, no sympathy for O Briens, really, with its healthy heart saving sandwiches.

You should understand perfectly. After all galway is the home of supermacs afik. now you get the heartattack.;) You dont get a foot long subway for 2.99 a standard subway meal costs 5.99 which is the same price as o'briens.

Again you not compareing like with like. Dunnes supervalue do perfectly lovely sandwhiches for 3.99 (cheese is 2.99) but if this was the prefered choice dunnes and supervalue would be wipeing out the competition as they are clearly not.

I dont expect you to have sympathy for o'briens when your thinkling like this, My point was that most people spend this money on heartattacks. More examples being Fry up's mcdonalds and burgerking. So when your talking about something you eat maybe once a week what is 2 euro for the healthy choice!

slipss · 07-10-2009 10:42PM

Joey the lips wrote: »

You dont get a foot long subway for 2.99

Yes you do, I bought one today.

projectmayhem · 07-10-2009 10:44PM

A few years ago when O'Briens popped up I worked in town, and at least once a week we went there for one of the lunches during the week. It was great. Expensive, sure, but that's why we only went once or twice a week. Tastey, fresh and great service from the staff.

Then it got bigger and more bloated. The staff kept rotating like it was a McDonald's, removing the happy people focused on customer service and replacing them with mindless drones from Eastern Europe who spoke no English other then "next" and to understand the menu. The food tasted less fresh as it was clear it just became another deli.

When it was good, we were confronted by one of the Spar top dogs who said he could make a sandwich better then the triple-decker I had from O'Briens at half the price. Not a special offer, just what they did. I said he couldn't do it as nice... and he couldn't. But it's a role reversal now. I'd gladly take a Spar sandwich over an O'Briens one now.

..though if in the city and you're near one, I do recommend the "Fresh" stores. One in Hanover quay is the only one I really know... but their deli's are great. They even do sushi!

Joey the lips · 07-10-2009 10:46PM

slipss wrote: »

Yes you do, I bought one today.

So there is another one!

Not where i eat them and not according to this advert

http://www.subway.ie/default.aspx

if you look at the small print it says 6"

Dudess · 07-10-2009 10:47PM

I got a toastie there once - the filling was so flimsy it pretty much felt like eating just two slices of toast.

Voltex · 07-10-2009 10:48PM

slipss wrote: »

Yes you do, I bought one today.

fat bast*rd

mayordenis · 07-10-2009 10:48PM

sunnyside wrote: »

I have to disagree with a lot of this. I've never managed to make sandwiches for a euro. Proper bread, Irish pride or Pat the Baker around €1.60 a loaf, relish/butter/mayo maybe €3 a jar, cheese €3, bag of mixed salad leaves, ham/chicken/turkey at least €3 for a small packet. OK not €7 a day but not €1 either.

I'm happy to spend around €5 a day on my lunch. It's part of my food budget. If I eat at my desk I have to talk to the people I work with which I like to avoid.

I expect that many people who moan about the price of sandwiches buy a box of cigarettes a day. Same cost.

I think there is still a market for coffee shop/sandwich bars, less than before but it's still there, they just need to be keeping meal deals around €5 or under.

I also need to add that canteen food can sometimes cost as much and then there's the UCC restaurant where food costs more than it does in McDonalds and around the same as it costs in O'Briens.

And why did Abrakebabra want to buy o'Briens? What would a kebab shop be doing with posh sandwiches

the amount you quote would most likely be enough for 10 sandwiches and costs about a tenner
so that's by my wacky calculations €1ish a sandwich.

Honestly if I could get a decent sandwich and a drink for a fiver I would no problem there,
Even the tripledeckers in o'brien's have become really really measily.

sunnyside · 07-10-2009 10:50PM

Stee wrote: »

Didn't this happen months ago?

They've been in trouble all summer. They had an examiner but as of today I think they have a liquidator. It was on the news earlier.

starbelgrade wrote: »

You obviously don't smoke.

No but I don't harshly criticise people for spending money on cigarettes in the way people here are condemning others for buying sandwiches.

I do agree that the O'Brien's sandwiches are expensive but they are no worse than McDonalds/Subway or any other establishment selling food.

slipss · 07-10-2009 10:51PM

Joey the lips wrote: »

So there is another one!

Not where i eat them and not according to this advert

http://www.subway.ie/default.aspx

if you look at the small print it says 6"

That's odd, maybe the american guy that works in the subway there fancies me or something cause thats the third day in a row now I've got the footlong* for 2.99.

*Edit* subway sandwich, footlong subway sandwich

Besides, even paying 2.99 for a 6" one would be better value than O'Briens. A six inch sub is definately far more filling than the sandiches you get there.

Gran Hermano · 07-10-2009 10:53PM

ShamboTM smoothies for all then?

phasers · 07-10-2009 10:55PM

I can get a chicken fillet roll and a coffee for 3 quid and it's nicer than the crap O'Briens serves

Good riddance

.!. · 07-10-2009 10:56PM

I quite liked their chicken tikka sandwich. They put loads on mine but still over priced. I used to treat myself when I couldn't be arsed making my lunch.

They did ride the celtic tiger for what it was worth IMO and have paid the price. Like a lot of other companies.

thatsa spicy · 07-10-2009 11:13PM

sunnyside wrote: »

I have to disagree with a lot of this. I've never managed to make sandwiches for a euro.

Sorry, I was thinking of just bread, butter and a slice of ham/chicken

For a 5 day working week:
Loaf of hovis brown broad for around 1.50 (16 slices in a loaf so another 4 would bring this up another 37 cent.....assuming you use 4 slices a day for your lunch), 10 slices dennys ham for about 3.50. Didn't factor in the cost of butter, but wouldn't be over 1.00 a week I'm sure!!

Admittedly a euro or so a day for a lunch of 4 sandwiches is cutting things to the bone, but I'd say a person could easily get by on 2.50 euro a day if they spent wisely and filled a plastic bottle with tap-water.

When you compare this though to 7 quid for a sandwich (which may or may not taste good or fill you, I don't know because I've never tried them!) and 2 quid maybe for a cup of tea, you can see the amount of money lost by not making your own lunch.

DemocAnarchis · 07-10-2009 11:17PM

Shower of overcharging cvnts, good riddance

starbelgrade · 07-10-2009 11:27PM

sunnyside wrote: »

No but I don't harshly criticise people for spending money on cigarettes in the way people here are condemning others for buying sandwiches.

Ahem, you DID say ....

sunnyside wrote: »

I expect that many people who moan about the price of sandwiches buy a box of cigarettes a day.

It was an obvious attempt at trying to side-swipe the debate.

Mr.A "Anyone who pays for over-priced sambos is MAD".

Mr.B "Yes, but at least I don't spend money on cocaine, which is much more expensive by weight"

dazberry · 07-10-2009 11:38PM

They were the sandwich version of Compustore. Clear out a few Bankustores and Dailustores, and we'll probably be back on the money - until next time.

D.

anonymous_joe · 07-10-2009 11:46PM

Jaysus, the way people are talking here you'd think they were morally bankrupt.

They made decent sandwiches and used better ingredients than most places tend to.

Grand they were expensive, but a good sandwich for a fiver was bearable.

chilli_pepper · 07-10-2009 11:49PM

Decent enough sambos , toasties ,wraps etc but well overpriced . I have always found the service good in any of the O'Briens shops that I have been in. If they changed their pricing structure to favour the customer they would be onto a winner

starbelgrade · 07-10-2009 11:53PM

anonymous_joe wrote: »

Jaysus, the way people are talking here you'd think they were morally bankrupt.

They made decent sandwiches and used better ingredients than most places tend to.

Grand they were expensive, but a good sandwich for a fiver was bearable.

I couldn't give a toss what people spend their money on & as I said, no-one was ever forced to buy a sandwich.

Having said that, I can think of better things I'd rather spend a grand (plus) a year on.

Like cigarettes.

anonymous_joe · 07-10-2009 11:57PM

starbelgrade wrote: »

I couldn't give a toss what people spend their money on & as I said, no-one was ever forced to buy a sandwich.

Having said that, I can think of better things I'd rather spend a grand (plus) a year on.

Like cigarettes.

Bingo.

Nearest place I can eat is a spar, and if I'm honest I'd love an O'Briens or something nearby. :pac:

Rabies · 08-10-2009 12:05AM

thatsa spicy wrote: »

Oh, and I've never bought subway.

The world will end because of that.
You must b the last person on earth to have never eaten their over priced crap food

starbelgrade · 08-10-2009 12:12AM

Rabies wrote: »

The world will end because of that.
You must b the last person on earth to have never eaten their over priced crap food

I've never eaten there either. Or O'Briens, come to think of it.

Sharpshooter · 08-10-2009 12:14AM

Rabies wrote: »

The world will end because of that.
You must b the last person on earth to have never eaten their over priced crap food

He's not, you know.
I can make them cheaper at home and savour the fact that I haven't been robbed.

DubTony · 08-10-2009 12:22AM

Rabies wrote: »

The world will end because of that.
You must b the last person on earth to have never eaten their over priced crap food

Nope, that'd be me. Never even set foot in one.

O'Briens goes into liquidation

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