New Businesses opening in Dublin 15

L1011

DoozerT6 wrote: »

Anybody go to Krispy Kreme today?

Half the city. Traffic still in bits from it now!

ongarboy

DoozerT6 wrote: »

Anybody go to Krispy Kreme today?

I'll wait for crowds to die down but I read here that someone queued from 4am this morning for it...WHY????

https://www.google.ie/amp/s/www.dublinlive.ie/whats-on/food-drink-news/krispy-kreme-blanchardstown-dublin-ireland-15201515.amp

Gavin "shels"

L1011 wrote: »

Half the city. Traffic still in bits from it now!

Never seen anything like it - was like Christmas at 7pm... still horrendous at 9pm! My planned donut after shopping was dashed...

Madness they had the car park cordoned off for the drive thru!

Heard a mention of a Dominos Pizza into Xtravision?

Gavin "shels"

Does anyone know what time the non-drive thru part of Krispy Kreme is open until btw?

dickwod1

Gavin shels wrote: »

Does anyone know what time the non-drive thru part of Krispy Kreme is open until btw?

Till 11pm, Drive through only after that, and you must be in a car!!! (They wouldn't serve me coffee and donuts at 12am tonight as I wasn't in a car!) The drive thru car park was still insane at 12 midnight... the cars were Q'ing from the outside main road!

Staplor

dickwod1 wrote: »

Till 11pm, Drive through only after that, and you must be in a car!!! (They wouldn't serve me coffee and donuts at 12am tonight as I wasn't in a car!) The drive thru car park was still insane at 12 midnight... the cars were Q'ing from the outside main road!

Walked in yesterday at 9am, nice lady handed me a tasty doughnut. Then I left the queue for coffee was fairly long and I needed to get to work. The doughnut was bleedin delish

LorelaiG

Queue was mental yesterday around 4.30pm didn't even try going near it (was going to work anyway)!. Will wait until next week and pop down

OldMrBrennan83

LorelaiG wrote: »

Queue was mental yesterday around 4.30pm didn't even try going near it (was going to work anyway)!. Will wait until next week and pop down

Next year maybe.

miamee

There was no queue out the door as I passed by at 8am on the bus this morning I'd say it'll be nuts at the weekend though.

daymobrew

markoleary wrote: »

Musashi opening in the centre soon, check their homepage

If it is to be in the old XtraVision unit, then the planning application from July (permission granted 22 August) might be connected.

It's splitting it into two units, each to be a restaurant/cafe.

The proposed development consists of the change of use and subdivision of Unit 452 (with a GFA of 344 sq.m (ground floor level only)) from retail use to 2 no. café / restaurant units to be known as Unit 452 and 452A, each with a GFA of 169 sq.m. The proposed development includes associated alterations to the elevations, the provision of an outdoor seating area in place of 5 no. car parking spaces, 6 no. new cycle parking spaces, signage zones for each unit, and associated ancillary works.

Nijmegen

Doughnuts were delish and in fairness they managed the queues and traffic in the car park quite well. Though it did once again highlight that the Blanch center needs some sort of multi billion euro tunnel investment to manage traffic in and out of the place. Preferably before Christmas.

I also passed the new coffee shop opened just beside Kreme. To be honest I think whoever put that in needs their head examined, and the people in center management who let it knowing there was a drive thru crack factory opening next door that also happens to sell coffee are just looking for a short term gain. Can't really see them doing spectacularly well in a part of the center that's well away from anything that isn't already a drive thru. Unless the bookies are into millionaire cappuccinos (whatever they are, advertised on the signage)

Gavin "shels"

Nijmegen wrote: »

Unless the bookies are into millionaire cappuccinos (whatever they are, advertised on the signage)

Free coffee in Paddy Power so won't get any custom from their customers :pac:

RasTa

Surprise surprise, people queue up for another large multinational offering diabetes. Hope this shuts down asap

Gavin "shels"

RasTa wrote: »

Surprise surprise, people queue up for another large multinational offering diabetes. Hope this shuts down asap

Fairly certain that's not the topic of conversation but good input... there's the door.

RasTa

Gavin shels wrote: »

Fairly certain that's not the topic of conversation but good input... there's the door.

Yup, no obesity problems in Ireland. Anyone who highlights it should be shown the door.

I'd get more excited about a local bakery opening then this starbucks or whatever new chain will be stuck up in the center.

jack presley

RasTa wrote: »

I'd get more excited about a local bakery opening.

No sugar used by Irish bakeries of course.

RasTa

jack presley wrote: »

No sugar used by Irish bakeries of course.

Ah yeah be grand, they can compete with krispy kreme. in fact we should just put all local Irish business out of Dublin and turn to chains for the future of the Ireland. More kremes needed less Mannings or Thunders.

Nijmegen

RasTa wrote: »

Ah yeah be grand, they can compete with krispy kreme. in fact we should just put all local Irish business out of Dublin and turn to chains for the future of the Ireland. More kremes needed less Mannings or Thunders.

The Irish food and beverage industry has, to my knowledge, never been as well developed as it is today; for domestic or export consumption. Particularly around value added goods, where we used to just export the raw materials. I also remember reading an article some time ago about artisan local coffee chains versus starbucks, with one local owner remarking that they serve two completely different customers and don't feel they're in competition at all.

And no matter the source of the headquarters company, it's good to see the solid jobs in a new, modern facility where once there was a furniture shop with a handful of staff that went out of business.

(And incidentally, Mannings is overrun in the blanch center. Where's their ambition to open a 24-7 drive thru bakery? Not sure anyone would stop them.)

jack presley

RasTa wrote: »

Ah yeah be grand, they can compete with krispy kreme. in fact we should just put all local Irish business out of Dublin and turn to chains for the future of the Ireland. More kremes needed less Mannings or Thunders.

I thought your issue was obesity and diabetes?

M.Cribben

RasTa wrote: »

I'd get more excited about a local bakery opening then this starbucks or whatever new chain will be stuck up in the center.

Why? They are providing local employment, paying taxes to the State, and are supplying a product people seem to enjoy.

OldMrBrennan83

RasTa wrote: »

Yup, no obesity problems in Ireland. Anyone who highlights it should be shown the door.

I'd get more excited about a local bakery opening then this starbucks or whatever new chain will be stuck up in the center.

Local bakeries are never as convenient. Multinationals in proper locations all the way.

OldMrBrennan83

jack presley wrote: »

I thought your issue was obesity and diabetes?

So long as your obesity and diabetes was got from local companies it's grand.

eviltwin

RasTa wrote: »

Surprise surprise, people queue up for another large multinational offering diabetes. Hope this shuts down asap

Do you just come on here to slag off food outlets? I seem to remember a similar rant about Iceland.

RasTa

Yup

DoozerT6

Former Former wrote: »

This is brilliant news, Blanch is sorely lacking a sushi place and Musashi in town is great.

There's a sushi place in Ongar called Taro. They have a fairly big sushi menu and do a lovely bento box

www.tarosushibar.ie

OldMrBrennan83

Taro is lovely.

Zaph

Traffic was mental in the centre and on the approaches from both Blanchardstown Road and Snugborough Road at around 8.15 this evening. It's a Thursday in September, not December, so I can only surmise that Krispy Kreme is the cause. People need to get a grip - much and all as I love doughnuts, they're still only doughnuts at the end of the day. I dread to think what Christmas is going to be like. They really need to come up with a plan to extend the road network around the centre because what's currently there is no longer fit for purpose.

Gavin "shels"

RasTa wrote: »

Ah yeah be grand, they can compete with krispy kreme. in fact we should just put all local Irish business out of Dublin and turn to chains for the future of the Ireland. More kremes needed less Mannings or Thunders.

13 Thunders and 3 Mannings compared to 1 newly opened Krispy Kreme.... Logical argument.

Large shopping centres and shopping districts attract large brands... Plenty of local bakeries, cafes, etc... Dublin 8 is currently overrun with independent cafes but no one is waffling on about it on Boards.ie

PhoenixParker

Zaph wrote: »

Traffic was mental in the centre and on the approaches from both Blanchardstown Road and Snugborough Road at around 8.15 this evening. It's a Thursday in September, not December, so I can only surmise that Krispy Kreme is the cause. People need to get a grip - much and all as I love doughnuts, they're still only doughnuts at the end of the day. I dread to think what Christmas is going to be like. They really need to come up with a plan to extend the road network around the centre because what's currently there is no longer fit for purpose.

I don't think there's any way to make it workable.
It's simply a case of too many cars. Improving the road network locally will do little. It's a matter of getting more people on public transport, more people on bikes and more people in each car.

L1011

The traffic will die down within a few weeks, donuts are a fad also and it'll basically just be a drive through coffee shop in people's eyes in a few years.

That they push a fairly simple donut as their flagship product shows they are aware of the insanely fancy stuff being short term really