Insomnia Coffee for Waterford

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I see Insomnia are advertising for staff for their new cafe in Waterford.
Anybody have any idea where this will be?

thomasm

Any idea where all the coffee drinkers are coming from to keep these places open 😄

dzilla

thomasm wrote: »

Any idea where all the coffee drinkers are coming from to keep these places open 😄

To be honest when I heard this I thought "not another coffee shop" but sure look its gonna take an empty shopfront and bring a few jobs. Still think out of all the Costas and Insomnia and O'Brien type chains ya can't beat Galloways in town. lovely little cafe

Shane07

Shouldnt be too long before the arrival of Starbucks either,they are expanding all over the country!At least its another unit not empty!

MartyMcFly84

Really wish more local businesses opened up.

Who wants the same places in every single town?

sillysocks

Heard a rumour from someone working out by Ardkeen that Starbucks were apparently going to open in one of the units beside the new Aldi out there. Not sure how credible a rumour it is. It may be that that's where Insomnia is going either.

Roanmore

thomasm wrote: »

Any idea where all the coffee drinkers are coming from to keep these places open 😄

If you build it they will come :pac:

fricatus

MartyMcFly84 wrote: »

Really wish more local businesses opened up.

Well off the top of my head I can think of three new local coffee shops in town: Arch on George's St, Portico on Peter St/Arundel Square, and Blackfriars Coffee in... Blackfriars!

They're there, we just have to go in and give them the business!

fiachr_a

Don't criticise Insomnia, they support Waterford already: http://www.insomnia.ie/2014/09/insomnia-the-waterford-blaa/

MartyMcFly84

I am not critical of Insomnia, it just gets boring to see the exact same crud everywhere you go. There is virtually no difference between Dublin and a UK high-street. People seem to get excited when a shop like this opens in Waterford, as it in some way legitimises Waterford as a city. I have no doubt people will go there over some of the local businesses mentioned above for no reason other than its name brand.

I would encourage everyone to support local business and not go to the Insomnias and Starbucks , they are really over priced, not good for you and frankly not even that good.

fiachr_a

How can Waterford become a university town without an Insomnia or Starbucks? No respectable undergraduate would drink coffee and use their laptop sitting with the local riff raff in a McDonalds/Supermacs.

Max Powers

fiachr_a wrote: »

How can Waterford become a university town without an Insomnia or Starbucks? No respectable undergraduate would drink coffee and use their laptop sitting with the local riff raff in a McDonalds/Supermacs.

good one, touch of truth there alright where some people think the likes of starbucks et al are better than the the likes of the arch or something. I was down in starbucks drinking a weird dessert like drink, while pretending to do work on my overpriced apple device, really updating my facebook.Personally not a fan of the big coffee chains, great coffee to be had in waterford, jobs welcome and hopefully a success if sets up.

fuzzy dunlop

MartyMcFly84 wrote: »

Really wish more local businesses opened up.

Who wants the same places in every single town?

They could be local businesses in that it could be someone local who bought a franchise. It might not be but this is a possibility. If you had a Starbucks in town I would say you would have a licence to print money if you were the only one. However they spread like Cancer as soon as the first one opens in my experience.

AdMMM

Is this a dedicated Insomnia, or is it going into one of the Spars as a sort of concession as has been happening elsewhere?

alphapa

AdMMM wrote: »

Is this a dedicated Insomnia, or is it going into one of the Spars as a sort of concession as has been happening elsewhere?

It's a 40 seat cafe ya will be shocked when ya here where it's going into!

Mr_Spaceman

fuzzy dunlop wrote: »

. If you had a Starbucks in town I would say you would have a licence to print money if you were the only one. However they spread like Cancer as soon as the first one opens in my experience.

You could have used a more tactful metaphor. And it is, after all, only coffee.

O Riain

alphapa wrote: »

It's a 40 seat cafe ya will be shocked when ya here where it's going into!

Where?

dzilla

alphapa wrote: »

It's a 40 seat cafe ya will be shocked when ya here where it's going into!

Where the Old Stand Bar was is my guess

JPA

alphapa wrote: »

It's a 40 seat cafe ya will be shocked when ya here where it's going into!

It's going into Penneys.

No, really.

wellboytoo

alphapa wrote: »

It's a 40 seat cafe ya will be shocked when ya here where it's going into!

The Cathedral?

reni10

Upstairs in The Book Centre?

alphapa

JPA wrote: »

It's going into Penneys.

No, really.

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fuzzy dunlop

Mr_Spaceman wrote: »

You could have used a more tactful metaphor. And it is, after all, only coffee.

Starbucks in some locations is exactly that. The Simpsons did a skit on it and it was barely an exageration.I have no problem with it in principle but in many places they have totally blighted the urban environment. I would like to see one or two in Waterford but that is all.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRz3vfRFfs4

O Riain

fuzzy dunlop wrote: »

Starbucks in some locations is exactly that. The Simpsons did a skit on it and it was barely an exageration.I have no problem with it in principle but in many places they have totally blighted the urban environment. I would like to see one or two in Waterford but that is all.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRz3vfRFfs4

How many do you think they would put in Waterford? We'd be lucky to get one ffs!

Wanderer78

alphapa wrote: »

It's a 40 seat cafe ya will be shocked when ya here where it's going into!

chicken ranch?

fuzzy dunlop

O Riain wrote: »

How many do you think they would put in Waterford? We'd be lucky to get one ffs!

That's my point. They rarely if ever do just one. They start off with just one but seriously they spread like the plague and not just in big cities. If there was one in town and one in Ardkeen yeah I could live with it. But if it was a case of Starbucks on ever corner like I have seen in some towns in Surry then no thanks. Blanchardstown had five at one stage all within five mins walk of each other. There is over a dozen in Dublin more or less between St Stephens green and Parnell St. As someone alluded to if this is what we are relying on to put us on the map then its shows a severe lack of confidence.

Wanderer78

i really wish these chains would go away. im not a coffee drinker but i hate franchises. a sign of big business dominance and control of local economies. id rather support a local coffee shop if i was into this sort of thing. the profits of local businesses have a better chance of staying local rather than with these big companies.

fiachr_a

O Riain wrote: »

How many do you think they would put in Waterford? We'd be lucky to get one ffs!

Starbucks usually put two together in the same street across the road from each other.

kayaksurfbum

fiachr_a wrote: »

Starbucks usually put two together in the same street across the road from each other.

Where have they done that???

O Riain

fiachr_a wrote: »

Starbucks usually put two together in the same street across the road from each other.

They don't do that.

Baby4

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