It’s only struck me today that in within a couple hundred meters of each other in Blanchardstown Shopping Center there are four Starbucks coffee shops! Yes four.
When i was in Edinburgh they were everywhere and I jokingly said while touring Edinburgh Castle that you’d expect to go up to see the crown jewels and there’d be a Starbucks on the way out. But this is Dublin, post Celtic Tiger, interest rates high, house prices falling and they still see a value in selling 6 euro cups of coffee?? But so much so that they can justify opening four shops so close to each other!?
Who goes to these places to keep them in business?
Why would anyone justify paying such high prices for a coffee?
Why do they have such ridiculous names for their coffees?
And when did Ireland become such a coffee drinking nation? Now for a portion of last year i was addicted to the Statoil Coffee but I didn’t think people were as reliant on their daily caffine boost. What ever happened to solving the worlds over a nice pot of three-bagger gold blend? (or are you a Lyons drinker?)
Someone rang up Gerry Ryan’s show during the week to complain that the Gresham hotel couldn’t give her a “skinny latté”! WHAT! Years ago you would’ve been called a yuppie and lucky not to be laughed at but now it’s all Frapachino-double-latte-moco-chino this and sprinkles of chocolate shavings and fresh sweetened cream!
A double expresso shot with a hint of cinnamon for eight euro might not be the reason why the country is in the state it is but i can certainly tell you it’s a contributory factor..
that and the health system…
