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New Business openings and closures around you?

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    #4772
    The Nal
    Registered Users Posts: 12,797 ✭✭✭✭The Nal


    dublinman1990 wrote: »
    Dealz are opening in Rathfarnham SC on the 16th of July which is Thursday week.

    https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2020/0706/1151638-dealzs-3-new-irish-stores/

    Was there this morning. Huge shop. Well stocked. Tesco is going to take a battering.


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    #4773
    joeguevara
    Registered Users Posts: 8,067 ✭✭✭joeguevara


    MonkstownHoop wrote: »
    Had Elverys in Dun Laoghaire reopened?

    No


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    #4774
    NutmegGirl
    Registered Users Posts: 118 ✭✭NutmegGirl


    The shoe repair shop in Stillorgan SC has closed permanently, they weren’t long back in their new unit after the renovation


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    #4775
    The Nal
    Registered Users Posts: 12,797 ✭✭✭✭The Nal


    NutmegGirl wrote: »
    The shoe repair shop in Stillorgan SC has closed permanently, they weren’t long back in their new unit after the renovation

    Stillorgan SC has lost its sole


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    #4776
    deiseindublin
    Registered Users Posts: 2,263 ✭✭✭deiseindublin


    The Nal wrote: »
    Was there this morning. Huge shop. Well stocked. Tesco is going to take a battering.
    I had the same thought when I saw how big their grab and go lunch food section is.

    No harm, that Tesco is horrendous.


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    #4777
    Patrick2010
    Registered Users Posts: 3,241 ✭✭✭Patrick2010


    The Nal wrote: »
    Was there this morning. Huge shop. Well stocked. Tesco is going to take a battering.


    Were they limiting the numbers going in?


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    #4778
    The Nal
    Registered Users Posts: 12,797 ✭✭✭✭The Nal


    deiseindublin wrote: »
    I had the same thought when I saw how big their grab and go lunch food section is.

    No harm, that Tesco is horrendous.

    Gets a bad rep but its fine if you know what you're after. Always well stocked first thing too.
    Patrick2010 wrote: »
    Were they limiting the numbers going in?

    I'd assume so but I was there at 9am so there was no one there.


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    #4779
    deiseindublin
    Registered Users Posts: 2,263 ✭✭✭deiseindublin


    Patrick2010 wrote: »
    Were they limiting the numbers going in?
    Yes, there was no line when I went in but on the way out they were queuing around the corner towards the Garden Centre.


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    #4780
    Sheep Shagger
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators Posts: 6,376 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sheep Shagger


    Full steam ahead as Dundrum Town Center have said the new Brown Thomas will open in 2021.

    Anyone know what's happening to the big new restaurant that was suppossd to be Fallon & Byrne but their name has since disappeared from the hoardings...


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    #4781
    L1011
    Registered Users Posts: 68,806 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    F&B are in trouble. Rathmines closed, Connolly Station that should have opened pre-Christmas hasn't.


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    #4782
    Sheep Shagger
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    L1011 wrote: »
    F&B are in trouble. Rathmines closed, Connolly Station that should have opened pre-Christmas hasn't.

    Yeah seems they have pulled out of Dundrum...


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    #4783
    Sheep Shagger
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators Posts: 6,376 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sheep Shagger


    Costa Coffee is starting to reopen...


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    #4784
    coylemj
    Registered Users Posts: 25,445 ✭✭✭✭coylemj


    Sheep Shagger wrote: »
    Costa Coffee is starting to reopen...

    +1 they were open for sit down inside and outside beside Harvey Norman in Tallaght yestarday. About half the inside tables were marked off as not in use. Coffee seved in real cups, unlike Insomnia who last week (in Deansgrange) were treating all coffee orders as takeout.


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    #4785
    The Nal
    Registered Users Posts: 12,797 ✭✭✭✭The Nal


    coylemj wrote: »
    +1 they were open for sit down inside and outside beside Harvey Norman in Tallaght yestarday. About half the inside tables were marked off as not in use. Coffee seved in real cups, unlike Insomnia who last week (in Deansgrange) were treating all coffee orders as takeout.

    Thats because Insomnia scoop their coffee from the unflushed toilet.


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    #4786
    Gareth Keenan
    Registered Users Posts: 613 ✭✭✭Gareth Keenan


    MonkstownHoop wrote: »
    Had Elverys in Dun Laoghaire reopened?

    looks like it's reopened now, so much for that rumour


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    #4787
    Darc19
    Registered Users Posts: 3,817 ✭✭✭Darc19


    L1011 wrote: »
    F&B are in trouble. Rathmines closed, Connolly Station that should have opened pre-Christmas hasn't.

    Not any more. The two people who were running it sold their shares to one of the founders (Brian Fallon) and a former superquinn director.

    They pulled back from multiple sites and are concentrating on the major redevelopment of exchequer st.

    So a new direction that no longer involves dundrum or Connolly. Far more sensible too.


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    #4788
    dublinman1990
    Registered Users Posts: 8,474 ✭✭✭dublinman1990


    Holland & Barrett, Bewleys retail store & one of the hairdressers upstairs in Blackrock SC are temporarily closed.

    The newly refurbished toilets on the ground floor have also opened to the public. That will mean no more going to the prefabbed toilets outside.


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    #4789
    Sheep Shagger
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    Darc19 wrote: »
    Not any more. The two people who were running it sold their shares to one of the founders (Brian Fallon) and a former superquinn director.

    They pulled back from multiple sites and are concentrating on the major redevelopment of exchequer st.

    So a new direction that no longer involves dundrum or Connolly. Far more sensible too.

    Wonder who will now run the new restaurant at Dundrum being built then...


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    #4790
    GT89
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,770 ✭✭✭GT89


    Darc19 wrote: »
    Not any more. The two people who were running it sold their shares to one of the founders (Brian Fallon) and a former superquinn director.

    They pulled back from multiple sites and are concentrating on the major redevelopment of exchequer st.

    So a new direction that no longer involves dundrum or Connolly. Far more sensible too.

    I wonder would that put the future of their Dun Laoghaire restaurant at risk if they're trying to focus on Exchequer Street


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    #4791
    dublinman1990
    Registered Users Posts: 8,474 ✭✭✭dublinman1990


    Some good news. Most of the staff that I have seen in Dunnes Stores at The Playwright & Spar in Rockville Drive in Newtownpark Avenue where I did my shopping today are now wearing either face masks/head visors. I was taking my time in walking to these places thinking about the massive R number increase since last week. It turned out that most of the customers inside these places are now wearing them as well which is great news.


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    #4792
    Gareth Keenan
    Registered Users Posts: 613 ✭✭✭Gareth Keenan


    Gareth Keenan wrote: »
    looks like it's reopened now, so much for that rumour

    and now Lifestyle in the DLSC is reopening, on July 27th. Nature is healing.


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    #4793
    MonkstownHoop
    Registered Users Posts: 3,196 ✭✭✭MonkstownHoop


    Gareth Keenan wrote: »
    and now Lifestyle in the DLSC is reopening, on July 27th. Nature is healing.

    Please be Dunphys next :D


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    #4794
    Darc19
    Registered Users Posts: 3,817 ✭✭✭Darc19


    Sheep Shagger wrote: »
    Wonder who will now run the new restaurant at Dundrum being built then...

    Probably the press up group.


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    #4795
    Gmaximum
    Registered Users Posts: 378 ✭✭Gmaximum


    Darc19 wrote: »
    Probably the press up group.

    They’re already going into the old Hamleys store with a bowling alley


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    #4796
    silver2020
    Registered Users Posts: 2,045 ✭✭✭silver2020


    Gmaximum wrote: »
    They’re already going into the old Hamleys store with a bowling alley

    They've many formats - Dollard & Co would be an option https://dollardandco.ie/

    Pure guesswork though and they are probably suffering badly, so they may have things on hold. But hopefully its not taken by some chain type restaurant with their insipid boring one suits all menu


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    #4797
    L1011
    Registered Users Posts: 68,806 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    silver2020 wrote: »
    But hopefully its not taken by some chain type restaurant with their insipid boring one suits all menu

    Which is Press Ups speciality!


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    #4798
    ted1
    Registered Users Posts: 23,524 ✭✭✭✭ted1


    L1011 wrote: »
    Which is Press Ups speciality!

    Yep, Just copy and paste. Style over substance


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    #4799
    errlloyd
    Registered Users Posts: 12,611 ✭✭✭✭errlloyd


    I struggle with my feelings about press up.

    Some of my favorite places in the city are press up group. Garage Bar, the VCC, Bison Bar, the Stella Cinema, even the Dean hotel. They are all pretty cool - genuinely innovative (for Dublin) and gave us something we were missing. The city would be poorer without them imo.

    But then there are 35 other restaurants and bars. They have heavily overlapping menus and styles. The homogeneousness creates an unease. A Truman Show or Deja Vu like discomfort. It's not the same, but I feel like I have been here before.

    Once you have to hire 70 chefs and end up with such a shallow hierarchy pyramid you end up reducing the quality available to you. It is hard to maintain quality at scale, and the quality has certainly suffered.


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    #4800
    L1011
    Registered Users Posts: 68,806 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    errlloyd wrote: »
    I struggle with my feelings about press up.

    Some of my favorite places in the city are press up group. Garage Bar, the VCC, Bison Bar, the Stella Cinema, even the Dean hotel. They are all pretty cool - genuinely innovative (for Dublin) and gave us something we were missing. The city would be poorer without them imo.

    But then there are 35 other restaurants and bars. They have heavily overlapping menus and styles. The homogeneousness creates an unease. A Truman Show or Deja Vu like discomfort. It's not the same, but I feel like I have been here before.

    Once you have to hire 70 chefs and end up with such a shallow hierarchy pyramid you end up reducing the quality available to you. It is hard to maintain quality at scale, and the quality has certainly suffered.

    The Garage is gone, for good. Replaced with a copy and paste of Marys.

    The Stella won't be as special when there's one in a shopping centre in Bray, the Dean is now the same as their other hotels in Dublin (and Cork, soon if not already). They have a few formats they over-use.


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    #4801
    ted1
    Registered Users Posts: 23,524 ✭✭✭✭ted1


    L1011 wrote: »
    The Garage is gone, for good. Replaced with a copy and paste of Marys.

    The Stella won't be as special when there's one in a shopping centre in Bray, the Dean is now the same as their other hotels in Dublin (and Cork, soon if not already). They have a few formats they over-use.

    Union cafe and elephant and castle are blending into one.

    I suspect that they are taking over the queens in Dalkey


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