Dublin is getting Starbucked...

I would support my local coffee shop just on principle, more opportunity to get an individual coffee, even if on the odd chance it tastes of sewerage. Starbuck's is just bland.

Kannon Early Trial wrote: »

Better coffee than most of the slurry available.
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Perhaps you should ask for coffee and not slurry then?

You think it's bad here? At one intersection in Vancouver, in the 1990s, three of the four corners was a Starbucks. One of them had closed by the time I went there in 1999, but that still left Starbucks on opposite corners of the same intersection.

I like a nice Caramel Macchiato as much as the next person, and I have to say, the one in Dun Laoghaire has the nicest staff imaginable, but I love going to little coffee shops too.

I think it says it all when Westmoreland street has 2! I was saying it to my OH the other day, from the Illac to Stephens Green, if you count every Starbucks within a street of your route, you're in double figures (including the new one about to open on the corner of O'Connell street) It is great for employment in that particular sector, but for competition, they cannot compete. Starbucks can make a loss and not feel it in one shop, because they know they can ensure the market for that area.

Keno wrote: »

Where else am I going to charge my MacBook?

And the charging point must be near a window or at least visible to the rest of the store. Otherwise what is the point in having a MacBook???

Never gotten into anything like Lattes or Cappucinos, I'll stick to my Americano and Donut from The Rolling Donut usual

I was in London when the whole thing kicked off, and Starbucks was a latecomer to the market there. The copycat "Seattle Coffee Company" got there first, in Covent Garden. Since then, I still like a good cappuccino, but I'll only hit Starbucks when travelling and there's nothing more interesting around.