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What happened to all the Abrakebabra franchises?

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  • 11-12-2014 1:10pm
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    Grab All Association
    Registered Users Posts: 3,917 ✭✭✭


    Thurles, Clonmel, Cashel, Templemore, Dungarvan are just a few of the big number of takeaways that closed recently. Was it the Jedward and Edward happy meal thing they had that scared off the customers?


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    Duff
    Registered Users Posts: 5,538 ✭✭✭Duff


    Probably the fact that it's utter dogshít.


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    somesoldiers
    Registered Users Posts: 13,845 ✭✭✭✭somesoldiers


    Maynooth one is now Pizza Dog


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    biko
    Registered Users Posts: 81,223 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Someone said "Abracadabra" and they all vanished


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    AboutaWeekAgo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 651 ✭✭✭AboutaWeekAgo


    The crazy high prices might have something to with it.


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    gramar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,045 ✭✭✭✭gramar


    What happened to all the Abrakebabra franchises?

    Have they all disappeared?


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    Doctor Jimbob
    Registered Users Posts: 7,631 ✭✭✭Doctor Jimbob


    Chris___ wrote: »
    Thurles, Clonmel, Cashel, Templemore, Dungarvan are just a few of the big number of takeaways that closed recently. Was it the Jedward and Edward happy meal thing they had that scared off the customers?
    They're shite.


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    RobYourBuilder
    Registered Users Posts: 1,541 ✭✭✭RobYourBuilder


    More likely they closed due to the poor standard of food they served and better late night takeaways opening up.


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    TaosHum
    Registered Users Posts: 1,746 ✭✭✭TaosHum


    Still in Carlow & Kilkenny


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    MonkeyTennis
    Registered Users Posts: 3,098 ✭✭✭MonkeyTennis


    Bad food at horrendous prices.


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    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users Posts: 43,025 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    I would murder a taco fries now


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    syklops
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,969 ✭✭✭✭syklops


    Duff wrote: »
    Probably the fact that it's utter dogshít.

    There's always one.


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    iDave
    Registered Users Posts: 3,750 ✭✭✭iDave


    This thread has made me hungry


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    Going Strong
    Registered Users Posts: 837 ✭✭✭Going Strong


    RobYourBuilder wrote: »
    More likely they closed due to the poor standard of food they served and better late night takeaways opening up.

    Do these other takeaways have drunken fights outside the place on the hour, every hour? If not, then they're of no use as Abrakebabra replacements. Watching two blind-drunk foolahs fighting over the square root of feck all of an evening and trying to smear each other's faces across the window is part and parcel of the Abrakebabra experience.

    "Abra-Abra-Kebabra. Gonna reach out and stab ya."


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    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users Posts: 43,025 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    iDave wrote: »
    This thread has made me hungry

    there should be a ban on food threads before 1pm


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    Grab All Association
    Registered Users Posts: 3,917 ✭✭✭Grab All Association


    RobYourBuilder wrote: »
    More likely they closed due to the poor standard of food they served and better late night takeaways opening up.

    To be fair the Templemore franchise was good. Nice food reasonable prices. It did very little business though even in the celtic tiger era. Then again what business does make money there. Templemore is no longer classed a town these days just a suburb of Thurles.

    The Cashel one was alright too.


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    keithclancy
    Registered Users Posts: 9,222 ✭✭✭keithclancy


    The one in my locality was nicknamed Abrakestabra.

    Mainly because someone had been stabbed there and a year after that one of the Staff stabbed a customer.


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    Mountjoy Mugger
    Registered Users Posts: 4,487 ✭✭✭Mountjoy Mugger


    gramar wrote: »
    What happened to all the Abrakebabra franchises?

    Have they all disappeared?

    Don - er..


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    syklops
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,969 ✭✭✭✭syklops


    keithclancy wrote: »
    The one in my locality was nicknamed Abrakestabra.

    Mainly because someone had been stabbed there and a year after that one of the Staff stabbed a customer.

    He sounds badass. :pac:


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    MRnotlob606
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,642 ✭✭✭MRnotlob606


    Duff wrote: »
    Probably the fact that it's utter dogshít.

    I don't know how the hell you can berate dog **** like that !!!:mad:


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    MRnotlob606
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,642 ✭✭✭MRnotlob606


    Abrakebabra is the ryanair of the fast-food industry.


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    Dan_Solo
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 10,087 ✭✭✭✭Dan_Solo


    TBF they were often the only place open 3ish when you wanted the feed. Food wasn't great alright. Kebabs were grand filler at that hour. I've had their burger and fries in the daytime sober as a non-alcoholic judge and it wasn't all that toxic.


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    Menas
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,318 ✭✭✭✭Menas


    This is the second thread today that has left me starving for a Kebab.


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    Grandeeod
    Registered Users Posts: 12,093 ✭✭✭✭Grandeeod


    SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »
    there should be a ban on food threads before 1pm

    A Food thread?

    Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!


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    #25
    cloud493
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,835 ✭✭✭✭cloud493


    They charged 2.50 for 3 tiny pieces of chicken, they can go **** themselves :mad:


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    FGR
    Registered Users Posts: 2,448 ✭✭✭FGR


    I just wish someone would publish the recipe for their hot bbq sauce.

    EDIT: when I say recipe - i really mean Supplier :pac:


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    Iranoutofideas
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,083 ✭✭✭Iranoutofideas


    I stopped eating there about 14 years ago when I noticed scabs all over the hands of the girl behind the counter.


    Forever known as scabby hands. Puke.


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    EB_2013
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    They were always dead during the day so I'm surprised they could afford to stay around for as long as they did.

    I used the one in Fairview once but after seeing the toilets that was my last time. It became a kebab place after that and it's now a cafe.


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    jester77
    Registered Users Posts: 11,262 ✭✭✭✭jester77


    I was back in Galway recently and there was a coffee shop where they used to be. Who the hell wants a coffee after a night on the beer :confused: Their taco fries were legendary when not sober.


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    wp_rathead
    Registered Users Posts: 10,067 ✭✭✭✭wp_rathead


    jester77 wrote: »
    I was back in Galway recently and there was a coffee shop where they used to be. Who the hell wants a coffee after a night on the beer :confused: Their taco fries were legendary when not sober.

    In Galway and you would choose Abrakebabra taco chips over The Charcole Grill's taco chip? for shame jester! for shame!


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    steveone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 740 ✭✭✭steveone


    Going Strong wrote: »
    Do these other takeaways have drunken fights outside the place on the hour, every hour? If not, then they're of no use as Abrakebabra replacements. Watching two blind-drunk foolahs fighting over the square root of feck all of an evening and trying to smear each other's faces across the window is part and parcel of the Abrakebabra experience.

    "Abra-Abra-Kebabra. Gonna reach out and stab ya."

    All to do with the way people queue for food. Abra was an experiment to investigate the behavioural patterns of people queueing side by side as opposed to single file. The results speak for themselves:-)


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