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Limerick Businesses Opening

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    #4952
    OfTheMarsWongs
    Registered Users Posts: 925 ✭✭✭OfTheMarsWongs


    bigpink wrote: »
    Gasta failed so a strange move

    Failed as a shop but seem to be doing ok with the meal plans. Saw on their Facebook that they're putting a kiosk (fridge I suppose) into a gym soon. So that's another revenue stream for them.


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    #4953
    bigpink
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,552 ✭✭✭bigpink


    Maybe the gasta operetors going running the franchise for them


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    #4954
    Special Circumstances
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,569 ✭✭✭Special Circumstances


    mrsoundie wrote: »
    More cleanse and detox malarky

    "Steak, Egg & Cheese Grilled Breakfast Burrito
    scrambled egg, steak, aged cheddar, tomatoes"

    I'd hate to see what people here are eating if this is classed as some hippy dippy weirdo detox food!

    Breakfast burrito, Starbucks and a donut to kick off the day all within 60 seconds of each other. Awesome ;-) well the shine might go off it when I have to pay for it here rather it being a perk of the job...


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    #4955
    Mc Love
    Registered Users Posts: 14,015 ✭✭✭✭Mc Love


    That freshii place looks the business


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    #4956
    bigpink
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,552 ✭✭✭bigpink


    Its a chain?People excited about a chain but didnt support a local business


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    #4957
    vkid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,648 ✭✭✭vkid


    No offence to Gasta, I tried to support them, but didn't really like the food or the setup there. Good idea, but not great execution imo.
    Each to their own though.


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    #4958
    Mc Love
    Registered Users Posts: 14,015 ✭✭✭✭Mc Love


    vkid wrote: »
    No offence to Gasta, I tried to support them, but didn't really like the food or the setup there. Good idea, but not great execution imo.
    Each to their own though.

    Agreed - they were overpriced too.


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    #4959
    Jofspring
    Registered Users Posts: 4,057 ✭✭✭Jofspring


    bigpink wrote: »
    Its a chain?People excited about a chain but didnt support a local business

    From what gasta said when they were closing down it seemed to me more that they saw the other route they are taking as more fruitful rather than they weren't supported. I always saw people eating in there. From a business point of view they are probably seeing more profits without the overheads of rent, staff, rates etc...


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    #4960
    zulutango
    Registered Users Posts: 3,903 ✭✭✭zulutango


    It was very expensive, and the sheer volume of packaging with every meal was very annoying. And there was a load of really unhealthy stuff on sale (although packaged as healthy) which seemed to go against its very ethos.

    In other news, this forum's favourite café (The Stormy Teacup) is opening as a wine bar apparently.


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    #4961
    davo2001
    Registered Users Posts: 3,318 ✭✭✭davo2001


    zulutango wrote: »
    In other news, this forum's favourite café (The Stormy Teacup) is opening as a wine bar apparently.

    Will they be serving the wine in jam jars like they do their tea :rolleyes:


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    #4962
    Parchment
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,203 ✭✭✭Parchment


    davo2001 wrote: »
    Will they be serveing the wine in jam jars like they do their tea :rolleyes:

    *shudder*


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    #4963
    bennyl10
    Registered Users Posts: 5,565 ✭✭✭bennyl10


    davo2001 wrote: »
    Will they be serving the wine in jam jars like they do their tea :rolleyes:

    Have you been there since the new guy took over?
    Haven't got a 'jam jar'(were never actually jam jars) in months..


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    #4964
    davo2001
    Registered Users Posts: 3,318 ✭✭✭davo2001


    bennyl10 wrote: »
    Have you been there since the new guy took over?
    Haven't got a 'jam jar'(were never actually jam jars) in months..

    Yes I have and yes I got a frickin' jam jar!

    This is what I was served tea in, is this that not what you would call a "jam jar"? Enlighten me!


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    #4965
    Mc Love
    Registered Users Posts: 14,015 ✭✭✭✭Mc Love


    davo2001 wrote: »
    Yes I have and yes I got a frickin' jam jar!

    This is what I was served tea in, is this that not what you would call a "jam jar"? Enlighten me!

    Think that's a marmalade jar :D


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    #4966
    phill106
    Registered Users Posts: 6,818 ✭✭✭phill106


    davo2001 wrote: »
    Yes I have and yes I got a frickin' jam jar!

    This is what I was served tea in, is this that not what you would call a "jam jar"? Enlighten me!

    I believe thats a mason jar?


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    #4967
    Special Circumstances
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,569 ✭✭✭Special Circumstances


    phill106 wrote: »
    I believe thats a mason jar?

    Leave the Illuminati out of this.


    I briefly worked in a place where a new guy turned up with his own jam jar in case he'd have to resort to drinking from normal drinking vessels.


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    #4968
    bigpink
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,552 ✭✭✭bigpink


    Went to the Stormy Teacup and it wasnt great
    Actually they have a facebook video with a guy talking about a wine bar in an info commerical style doesnt suit the vibe of the place


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    #4969
    Insect Overlord
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 30,900 Mod ✭✭✭✭Insect Overlord


    I still miss the Cellar Door...


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    #4970
    bigpink
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,552 ✭✭✭bigpink


    An File wrote: »
    I still miss the Cellar Door...

    Never got in there
    Stormy Teacup could be great but lacking
    Chez le Fab seem to be puttiing in huge effortt as an indie cafe


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    #4971
    panda100
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,551 ✭✭✭panda100


    An File wrote: »
    I still miss the Cellar Door...

    That was my favourite place too. As much as I love Chez Le Fab it doesn't have the same cosiness as The Cellar Door.

    Anyone know when that new vegan place, The Old Fire Station, is opening up? I thought they had said end of January?


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    #4972
    riverrocked
    Closed Accounts Posts: 165 ✭✭riverrocked


    Reputable Rog wrote: »
    Funny how that corner hasn't worked since Kranks closed.
    Great childhood memories of Kranks, especially the original premises.

    Never understood people affinity for Kranks, I got food poisoning from there back in the day.


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    #4973
    bigpink
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,552 ✭✭✭bigpink


    riverrocked wrote: »
    Never understood people affinity for Kranks, I got food poisoning from there back in the day.

    Simpler times Kranks was a treat


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    #4974
    bazz26
    Registered Users Posts: 51,244 ✭✭✭✭bazz26


    Bring back Burgerland! :pac:


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    #4975
    Jofspring
    Registered Users Posts: 4,057 ✭✭✭Jofspring


    Used to love their pizzas when I was younger. I remember my father rang and asked if they did delivery and they said they could throw it in a taxi and we could pay the taxi driver for the trip when he arrived. Long time before the likes of dominos came to town.


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    #4976
    Ankhyu
    Registered Users Posts: 5,313 ✭✭✭Ankhyu


    An File wrote: »
    I still miss the Cellar Door...

    Me too :( Loved that place


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    #4977
    adaminho
    Registered Users Posts: 2,628 ✭✭✭adaminho


    zulutango wrote: »
    In other news, this forum's favourite café (The Stormy Teacup)

    Java's surely!


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    #4978
    ongarboy
    Registered Users Posts: 5,201 ✭✭✭ongarboy


    Freshii are actually really nice. Not sure if Chopped have an outlet in Limerick but Freshii are kinda the same concept! Really tasty food that is healthy but tastes great! I ordered from them almost daily when I worked in the IFSC on Dublin.


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    #4979
    ongarboy
    Registered Users Posts: 5,201 ✭✭✭ongarboy


    riverrocked wrote: »
    Reputable Rog wrote: »
    Funny how that corner hasn't worked since Kranks closed.
    Great childhood memories of Kranks, especially the original premises.

    Never understood people affinity for Kranks, I got food poisoning from there back in the day.

    Agreed. I went to UL in the early 90s and Kranks was always avoided by the UL students. It was either the Lobster Pot on Henry St (ah beat garlic and cheese chips ever!!) or Chicken Hut or if we were desperate, the Chernobyl Joes chip van that parked by the phone boxes next to Hurlers! For anyone born after 1995, a phone box or booth was something you used to call home when the student grant ran out as there was no such thing as mobile phones!!!


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    #4980
    Vanquished
    Registered Users Posts: 1,030 ✭✭✭Vanquished


    The former Cellar Door premises looks set to turned in to a bar/function room as part of plans by Flanagan's of Ballina to renovate the old Blind Pig.


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    #4981
    Mc Love
    Registered Users Posts: 14,015 ✭✭✭✭Mc Love


    Town is really missing a place like the sibin


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