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Centra Frank and Honest Coffee

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  • #62
    Thegalwayman
    Registered Users Posts: 746 ✭✭✭Thegalwayman


    Bewleys just 1.35 from machine in Dunnes and 5 times nicer than frank and honest made with the hot water first then substandard coffee added


  • #63
    corcaigh1
    Registered Users Posts: 647 ✭✭✭corcaigh1


    UsBus wrote: »
    I see Centra have put up the price of Frank and Honest coffee by 10c. It's now 2.60 for a regular coffee. Sneaky...

    Price is gone up another 10c now to €2.70. So that is two price increases in a matter of weeks....what a joke!


  • #64
    honeybear
    Registered Users Posts: 5,648 ✭✭✭honeybear


    I’m a fussy coffee drinker and usually steer well clear of petrol station coffee. I’m okay with Frank & Honest though


  • #65
    corcaigh1
    Registered Users Posts: 647 ✭✭✭corcaigh1


    honeybear wrote: »
    I’m a fussy coffee drinker and usually steer well clear of petrol station coffee. I’m okay with Frank & Honest though

    Insomnia coffee is ten times nicer imo and much better value...


  • #66
    deezell
    Registered Users Posts: 6,492 ✭✭✭deezell


    honeybear wrote: »
    I’m a fussy coffee drinker and usually steer well clear of petrol station coffee.......
    Which is all R'nH is. Mini supermarket automatic machine made take out convenience store, coffee, dressed up in a marketing department word image, conjuring up notions of integrity, credibilty, worthiness. It's still the same old soup but with the machine moved from the end of the biscuit aisle to the carefully groomed deli counter. You could do the same with an 89c centra/ londis/supervalu generic sliced pan. Give it it's own concept, say, "The Miller's Choice" or "The Harvest Bread Company", (adding the word 'Company' is a common branding trick). Put said cheap pans in a bespoke rustic display rack, and watch the suckers paying €2-€3 a go. This is how you turn an everyday commodity or staple into a desirable perception. You'll even convince yourself it's on a par with premium product from a specialist vendor, because of it's doubled price and alluring makeover. It's not. It should be branded CashCow Coffee.


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  • #67
    deezell
    Registered Users Posts: 6,492 ✭✭✭deezell


    BtW, in the Netherlands, the auto coffee machines in the biggest supermarket chain, (Albert Heinz), dispense the coffee to customers for FREE. Nip in and buy a danish, have a coffee free with that.


  • #68
    corcaigh1
    Registered Users Posts: 647 ✭✭✭corcaigh1


    Insomina still charging a reasonable €2.25 for a regular coffee, imo not just in terms of price they have really nice coffee so fair play to them for not increasing prices unlike their competitors shafting joe public!


  • #69
    deezell
    Registered Users Posts: 6,492 ✭✭✭deezell


    corcaigh1 wrote: »
    Insomina still charging a reasonable €2.25 for a regular coffee, imo not just in terms of price they have really nice coffee so fair play to them for not increasing prices unlike their competitors shafting joe public!

    A cup of TEA in Connolly hospital cafe is €2.70! And its crap.


  • #70
    happyoutscan
    Registered Users Posts: 5,954 ✭✭✭happyoutscan


    F and H €3 in Westport Centra (large Americano).


  • #71
    Hurrache
    Registered Users Posts: 10,148 ✭✭✭✭Hurrache


    corcaigh1 wrote: »
    Insomina still charging a reasonable €2.25 for a regular coffee, imo not just in terms of price they have really nice coffee so fair play to them for not increasing prices unlike their competitors shafting joe public!

    Insomnia never passed on the VAT decrease back in 2011. I'm sure they've pocketed enough on that to afford not to increase their price of a basic cup of coffee this time.

    Insomnia shafted their customers back then.


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  • #72
    KOR101
    Registered Users Posts: 1,898 ✭✭✭KOR101


    corcaigh1 wrote: »
    Insomina still charging a reasonable €2.25 for a regular coffee, imo not just in terms of price they have really nice coffee so fair play to them for not increasing prices unlike their competitors shafting joe public!
    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057947773


  • #73
    Athaclaith
    Registered Users Posts: 1 ✭Athaclaith


    Can anyone tell me if Frank and Honest company have stopped doing loyalty cards. My local Centra told me yesterday they couldn't stamp my card as the company is not doing it any more .


  • #74
    Sonny noggs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,523 ✭✭✭Sonny noggs


    Frank and Beans would have worked better for the name. Instead of Frank and Honest.


  • #75
    deezell
    Registered Users Posts: 6,492 ✭✭✭deezell


    I like "Rank and Compost". Worst coffee I got recently though, by miles, a couple of takeouts from Supermacs drivethrough in Carrick on Shannon. Black, flat, oily tasteless very hot water. No hint of any flavour. Obviously decanted from a large filter coffe jug stewing away all day until any essential coffe aromas and flavours were completely evaporated. Undrinkable.


  • #76
    Xterminator
    Registered Users Posts: 4,717 ✭✭✭Xterminator


    worst i got was from a lidl coffee dispenser.

    price was 1 euro, volume was maybe 5 ounces? But the taste made the liffey water seem good in comparison. so to anyone who hates frank an honest, try lidl coffee - it will seem much more palatable in the aftermath.

    But do yourself a favour and get a packet of gum 1st! :)


  • #77
    Truckermal
    Registered Users Posts: 6,048 ✭✭✭Truckermal


    Costa is way worse along with Starbucks I like the Frank and Honest but never buy it anymore as we have the machine at work and it's free..


  • #78
    Tazz T
    Registered Users Posts: 3,200 ✭✭✭Tazz T


    OP has a point

    Supervalu's Frank & Honest machine churns out an self-service Americano in a paper cup for 2.70 while you can have a proper sit down Americano in the Douglas and Kaldi just across the street for 2.50.

    Not a great business model.


  • #79
    Portsalon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 702 ✭✭✭Portsalon


    Athaclaith wrote: »
    Can anyone tell me if Frank and Honest company have stopped doing loyalty cards. My local Centra told me yesterday they couldn't stamp my card as the company is not doing it any more .

    I got one in my local Supervalu last Thursday - although I had to ask at the info. desk as they weren't displayed at the coffee machine.


  • #80
    Portsalon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 702 ✭✭✭Portsalon


    honeybear wrote: »
    I’m a fussy coffee drinker and usually steer well clear of petrol station coffee. I’m okay with Frank & Honest though

    I recently tried a cup of Rosa at a Maxol petrol station - it was really lovely - and I'm fussy about my coffee!


  • #81
    deezell
    Registered Users Posts: 6,492 ✭✭✭deezell


    Further to my satisfactory Lidl coffee in Bantry, I was there again and machine was out of order. Later I reluctantly self served two F&H coffees in Bantry Supervalu. No Crema head on the coffee, appalled to see a dark liquid followed by clear hot water filling the cup. I tasted before paying, gagged, left them down and walked away. On the way out I noticed they had a little cafe, serving barrista machine coffee, two of them to go for less than the autopiss. Strange.


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  • #82
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    deezell wrote: »
    the autopiss.
    My new terminology for a coffee machine in a petrol station / Centra


  • #83
    Former Former
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,728 ✭✭✭Former Former


    deezell wrote: »
    appalled to see a dark liquid followed by clear hot water filling the cup

    Isn't this how Americano coffee is supposed to be made??


  • #84
    deezell
    Registered Users Posts: 6,492 ✭✭✭deezell


    Former Former wrote: »
    deezell wrote: »
    appalled to see a dark liquid followed by clear hot water filling the cup

    Isn't this how Americano coffee is supposed to be made??

    High pressure hot water through the ground beans, really a double espresso, just with a longer cycle of hot water. It will begin to go from very dark brown to lighter towards the end. Stop it at the point you desire.
    What I seen looked like a shot of syrup, flow stopped, then a a long shot of hot water. The MiWadi of Coffee.


  • #85
    duffman13
    Registered Users Posts: 8,946 ✭✭✭duffman13


    deezell wrote: »
    High pressure hot water through the ground beans, really a double espresso, just with a longer cycle of hot water. It will begin to go from very dark brown to lighter towards the end. Stop it at the point you desire.
    What I seen looked like a shot of syrup, flow stopped, then a a long shot of hot water. The MiWadi of Coffee.

    Pretty sure the "classic" way to make an Americano is an espresso mixed with 1-2 times the volume in water. Water in the mug and pour the espresso in on top as opposed to the way F&H do it


  • #86
    MyDashCam
    Registered Users Posts: 3 ✭MyDashCam


    Portsalon wrote: »
    I recently tried a cup of Rosa at a Maxol petrol station - it was really lovely - and I'm fussy about my coffee!

    Rosa is being made by Bewleys.
    All previous branded coffee stands changed to new brand, even in Dunnes.
    Nice bitter strong taste .


  • #87
    greenspurs
    Registered Users Posts: 10,217 ✭✭✭✭greenspurs


    My method for 'convienience store' coffee...

    Place cup under nozzle.

    Allow the coffee to be poured in

    When it stops, take out the cup, put another cup in to collect the hot water..

    When that stops, place the cup with the coffee back under , and start again.

    You then have 2 shots of coffee in the cup, and just take it out from under the nozzle when you have enough hot water.

    I like my coffee stronger than the usual brown water you get in stores/garages ...

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  • #88
    deezell
    Registered Users Posts: 6,492 ✭✭✭deezell


    Rosa is good. One thing that bothers me. Why no milk sachets? Sometimes only a manky jug. If you're buying for 2+, it's impossible to judge others' milk requirements, and especially a tea, where you want the teabag to brew for a while. At least Macs and Burger King have sachets.

    NOTE RE BK IN GARAGE FORECOURTS.

    Some BKs seem to have adjusted beverage price up to match the expensive price of the connected shop. MACS otoh, still charge €2 in the common service forecourts on the M6 Circle K near Athlone, and on the M9 one at Kilcullen. Value! and sachets.



  • #89
    accensi0n
    Registered Users Posts: 2,738 ✭✭✭accensi0n


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119362812#Comment_119362812

    And what's your method for a mars bar? Pick up 2, stick one in your pocket, pay for 1?



  • #90
    MEGA BRO WOLF 5000
    Registered Users Posts: 17,391 ✭✭✭✭MEGA BRO WOLF 5000


    2:70 now for a regular frank and honest and it still tastes as bad as the first day it came out. Before this shower came along everywhere, EVERYWHERE charged a max of €2 a cup. Insomnia was a far superior coffee for €1.80.



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  • #91
    deezell
    Registered Users Posts: 6,492 ✭✭✭deezell


    F and H used a machine that dispensed a SYRUP, followed by Hot water. in Suopervalu Bantry last time I was there, which a while ago.



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