McDonalds in Temple Bar - Yay or Nay?

JupiterKid · 23-07-2011 3:23am #1

So it has become knowledge to me that McDonalds is planning to open a large outlet in in Temple Bar. What do AHers make of this proposal? Yay to the Golden Arches as it will provide much needed soakage for the booze that's consumed there en masse?

Or nay - the final nail in the coffin of Dublin's erstwhile cultural quarter?

Victor · 23-07-2011 3:29am

To be fair, it can't actually get much worse. They need to reduce the amount of pubs and restaurants generally and allow other retail uses. There is provision in the development plan for rejecting any additional pubs and restaurants, but I can't see how they are going to get rid of existing ones and conversions.

roboshatner · 23-07-2011 3:35am

Temple is nuts it would not make much difference really if it was or wasnt there

temply · 23-07-2011 8:59am

It'll fit in perfectly with the rest of the crappy tourist places there already,am surprised its taken them so long to open up there anyway.

dats_right · 23-07-2011 1:42pm

Surprised anybody is concerned by this. McDonalds would fit right in with the ambience and tone of the area.

Teyla Emmagan · 23-07-2011 1:45pm

No, we need to reverse the rot in Temple Bar, not add to it. There is still some hope for the place.

phasers · 23-07-2011 1:55pm

Temple Bar is a dump anyway, has been for years.

starviewadams · 23-07-2011 2:04pm

Wouldn't make any difference at all,there's already an Abrakebabra there too so I don't see what the problem is.

Temple Bar isn't a cultural quarter,it's where stupid people go to get pissed every weekend and fight.
The pubs and restaurants in TB probably don't want a McDonalds there because they'd be forced to lower their rip off food prices.

Slydice · 23-07-2011 3:45pm

yea cos "we" all own temple bar :rolleyes:

Redlion · 23-07-2011 4:53pm

Bit ridiculous in general. I can count at least 5 McDonalds that are within a five minute walk of Temple Bar. 4 being Northside and 1 Southside. No need for a 6th one.

wolfmoon87 · 23-07-2011 5:05pm

No - McDonald's food is disgusting.
The only time I would eat that muck is if I was drunk. So actually it probably makes sense to have one in Temple Bar , but I would prefer if there was less McDonalds.

John_Rambo · 23-07-2011 5:49pm

starviewadams wrote: »

Temple Bar isn't a cultural quarter

I was at two exhibitions there last week. Loads going on during the day in Temple Bar, just cause you see it at night and make a judgement doesn't mean that all it is.

Anyone see the outdoor portrait poster one going on at the moment? Really nice stuff.

I don't think McDonalds is suitable for Temple Bar.

Laisurg · 23-07-2011 5:53pm

Well i for one support this 100%!! i do usually be close enough to temple bar on a night out and i have to trek down to grafton street to get food which is a right pain.

Laisurg · 23-07-2011 5:55pm

Redlion wrote: »

Bit ridiculous in general. I can count at least 5 McDonalds that are within a five minute walk of Temple Bar. 4 being Northside and 1 Southside. No need for a 6th one.

Maybe 5 minutes running but this is to accommodate people who are hammered!

Arnold Layne · 23-07-2011 5:59pm

I'd rather Burger King

honru · 23-07-2011 6:12pm

I would figure they would be looking at the premises left by the closure of the Bad Ass Cafe?

latenia · 23-07-2011 7:04pm

It's the Marco Pierre White/Frankie Detorri place on the corner of Temple Bar Square

badboyblake · 23-07-2011 7:11pm

latenia wrote: »

It's the Marco Pierre White/Frankie Detorri place on the corner of Temple Bar Square

Oh God that square is really ruined now - though it might concentrate the filth in one area I suppose.

I'd love to see Pret A Monger open up in Ireland - really nice coffee, salads and sambos.
http://www.pret.com/

Skerries · 23-07-2011 8:59pm

name them as i call shenanigans

Redlion wrote: »

Bit ridiculous in general. I can count at least 5 McDonalds that are within a five minute walk of Temple Bar. 4 being Northside and 1 Southside. No need for a 6th one.

phasers · 23-07-2011 10:08pm

Skerries wrote: »

name them as i call shenanigans

Jervis St
O'Connell St (2)
Grafton St

hmm... Ilac centre?

starviewadams · 24-07-2011 1:49am

John_Rambo wrote: »

I was at two exhibitions there last week. Loads going on during the day in Temple Bar, just cause you see it at night and make a judgement doesn't mean that all it is.

Anyone see the outdoor portrait poster one going on at the moment? Really nice stuff.

I don't think McDonalds is suitable for Temple Bar.

I worked there,days and nights for nearly two years and the only 'culture' I ever saw was mascots of tourist pubs dressed as leprechauns,drug addicts fighting and roaring abuse at each other and pissed English and Irish people drinking,fighting,urinating and defecating on the streets.

How can McDonalds not be suitable when there is an Abrekabra and was a Subway already there in TB?It would hardly lower the tone of the area.

24-07-2011 3:21am

I live in Temple Bar Area, and I would hate to see McD's come in. There's already plenty (of Mcd's) around, but the smell alone on grafton st is rank. No need to make TB smell worse! No need for it there, and it won't add to the area at all.

jack presley · 24-07-2011 11:40am

If it does go ahead, they should do what they do in places like Venice where they can't have any bright golden arches or any of their other decor out front. The shop front must blend in with the rest of the buildings surrounding it.

ixoy · 24-07-2011 12:06pm

jack presley wrote: »

If it does go ahead, they should do what they do in places like Venice where they can't have any bright golden arches or any of their other decor out front. The shop front must blend in with the rest of the buildings surrounding it.

This works quite well in Venice. It doesn't feel nearly as tacky as it might have otherwise.
Of course Temple Bar kind of is tacky so I'm not sure I'd care much either way...

John_Rambo · 24-07-2011 1:31pm

starviewadams wrote: »

I worked there,days and nights for nearly two years and the only 'culture' I ever saw was mascots

You must have some set of blinkers on. Here, take an education.

http://www.templebargallery.com/

http://www.galleryofphotography.ie/

http://pix.ie/Bohoe/2439359

http://www.irishfilm.ie/cinema/f_season1_07.asp?SID=42

http://www.clynegallery.com/

http://www.graphicstudiodublin.com/

gigino · 24-07-2011 2:21pm

Wht not a burdochs there ...thats more what the tourists come to Ireland for ? Ye can get a McDonalds anywhere

Redlion · 24-07-2011 3:30pm

Skerries wrote: »

name them as i call shenanigans

Phasers named them all.

pretty*monster · 24-07-2011 6:01pm

As a resident of Temple Bar I'm very much against this. Temple Bar is a bit of mess but it still retains some of it's unique character and there's no need to make a bad situation even worse.

(That said I do find the Tesco dead handy.)

24-07-2011 8:10pm

Yay. They will fit right in with the other tourist traps.

gudwan · 25-07-2011 9:52am

gigino wrote: »

Wht not a burdochs there ...thats more what the tourists come to Ireland for ? Ye can get a McDonalds anywhere

There is a Burdock's, just off the square there.

jack presley wrote: »

If it does go ahead, they should do what they do in places like Venice where they can't have any bright golden arches or any of their other decor out front. The shop front must blend in with the rest of the buildings surrounding it.

Not likely for the DCC to act sensibly like that. Here's an extended thread on the lack of regulations pertaining to shopfronts.

bc dub · 27-07-2011 12:23am

D wrote: »

Yay. They will fit right in with the other tourist traps.

Yes because filling medieval parts of Irelands heritage with American Fast Food outlets and or British Supermarket Chains is exactly what our tourist traps need.

Dublin, on a whole, needs more independent stores around the city. Most definitely not more fast food outlets.

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