Otis
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Me too and with you all the way on chains. Would much rather a smaller independent restaurant. You then get a city with its own identity.
I'm not so sure.
Personally I've got an idea for a restaurant, and if I could ever be arsed to actually do it (including learning to cook properly I guess), I'd be flogging it ASAP, before everyone caught onto the fact there wasn't much there beneath the surface!
My biggest sound of fury is it's chains all over the place however. And sure, it's not Coventry, it's everywhere.
But that's what's so bloody depressing about it all.
Give us something individual. If Cathedral Lanes ain't the place to do that (it isn't!) then allow Spon Street to become the independents, give it the small town street corner feel rather than the big corporate I am.
And yes, that should apply for all cities. Watched Dave Gorman last night and it seems I wasn't alone in thinking Cafe Rouge was a small independent when I first went to one!
You would think they just change it for plates or something else
It would be a novelty to try it, the same as chips in a bucket by the seaside. Don't want to be going to the chippy and them handing them over in a bucket every time though.
Yup, and I don't even mean get rid of chains altogether. Some people got to love a Nandos.Me too and with you all the way on chains. Would much rather a smaller independent restaurant. You then get a city with its own identity.
We were in there last week. Reasonably healthy in terms of numbers, but by no means full.Yup, and I don't even mean get rid of chains altogether. Some people got to love a Nandos.
But join it up a bit, give it a bit of variety.
Not been for a while btw, but if they're going chain restaurant quarter, are they going to move Pizza Hut from the Lower Precinct (if they haven't already!)? Seemed to be about the only deserted Pizza Hut in the world whenever I went by!
Getting beans in their own little dish when you get a breakfast is the one I don't like.
Ha!! Had that yesterday at Cosy Club. Exact scenario. Breakfast with beans in a pot.Getting beans in their own little dish when you get a breakfast is the one I don't like.
The furstrating thing is we've got one if we bothered to use it.I love unique identities and it is something Coventry should play on.
I'm not so sure.
Personally I've got an idea for a restaurant, and if I could ever be arsed to actually do it (including learning to cook properly I guess), I'd be flogging it ASAP, before everyone caught onto the fact there wasn't much there beneath the surface!
My biggest sound of fury is it's chains all over the place however. And sure, it's not Coventry, it's everywhere.
But that's what's so bloody depressing about it all.
Give us something individual. If Cathedral Lanes ain't the place to do that (it isn't!) then allow Spon Street to become the independents, give it the small town street corner feel rather than the big corporate I am.
And yes, that should apply for all cities. Watched Dave Gorman last night and it seems I wasn't alone in thinking Cafe Rouge was a small independent when I first went to one!
The furstrating thing is we've got one if we bothered to use it.
We've even got one in the original Precinct, which was groundbreaking, but we seem more embarrassed by it, than making the most of it. The little alleyway by the bird cage would be ideal for highlightin small independent shops, rather than the slightly scummy urine soaked throughfair it is atm, which must ruin any business's chances before it begins.
But, like I said, we're not alone in just bowing to chains!
Some people are picky, it's the same as curry and rice. Some people have them separate!
I prefer to get straight in and mix it.
I'm intrigued!
Nailed it.It's probably a mega greggs with drive thru.
It's probably a mega greggs with drive thru.
Sounds right up Coventrys street!Nailed it.
tbf, any idea I had would only work in London, with City types going 'yah' a lot, and thinking they were down with it with their mock slumming.Sounds right up Coventrys street!
tbf, any idea I had would only work in London, with City types going 'yah' a lot, and thinking they were down with it with their mock slumming.
It'd crash and burn if it didn't work
We had a cereal cafe in Fargo! (I assume it’s gone bust)
The problem with chains is due to people’s shopping habits. They want chains. You don’t get the footfall you used to to attract enough new trade to an independent before its made its name.
Really think you need to rethink town centres completely. With modern shopping and work practices a hub for all that stuff makes less sense. Fewer bigger employers means offices are more fragile economically, online means fewer shops all round and time constraints and car use mean retail parks do most of the job in a more convenient fashion and convenience always wins in retail.
If you want a city centre, as opposed to just another residential area, I think you’ve got to see it more like a leisure destination than a shopping centre. Make it somewhere people want to be, have activities there, like a giant cross between a theme park a shopping mall and a park. Dunno how that would go down with the traditionalists though.
A football ground'd be nice...If you want a city centre, as opposed to just another residential area, I think you’ve got to see it more like a leisure destination than a shopping centre.
We had a cereal cafe in Fargo! (I assume it’s gone bust)
The problem with chains is due to people’s shopping habits. They want chains. You don’t get the footfall you used to to attract enough new trade to an independent before its made its name.
Really think you need to rethink town centres completely. With modern shopping and work practices a hub for all that stuff makes less sense. Fewer bigger employers means offices are more fragile economically, online means fewer shops all round and time constraints and car use mean retail parks do most of the job in a more convenient fashion and convenience always wins in retail.
If you want a city centre, as opposed to just another residential area, I think you’ve got to see it more like a leisure destination than a shopping centre. Make it somewhere people want to be, have activities there, like a giant cross between a theme park a shopping mall and a park. Dunno how that would go down with the traditionalists though.
Might as well try Earlsdon then.tbf, any idea I had would only work in London, with City types going 'yah' a lot, and thinking they were down with it with their mock slumming.
It'd crash and burn if it didn't work
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I feel the same with shops. What's the point going to any other city it every city has the same shops and restaurants?
I love unique identities and it is something Coventry should play on.
I think in the modern mindset, predictability outweighs individuality.
People like knowing exactly what they will get rather taking a chance on something which could be better or worse.
On a recent car trip with my daughters we pulled off the road at a place with a group of restaurants, shops and petrol stations.
I spotted an interesting looking cafe with a name something like 'Rock Springs Cafe'.
I was all excited to try it out, but my daughters insisted on the McDonalds next door.
To me even if it had been terrible, it would have been an interesting memory but who remembers a meal at McDonalds.
Kids!!I think in the modern mindset, predictability outweighs individuality.
People like knowing exactly what they will get rather taking a chance on something which could be better or worse.
On a recent car trip with my daughters we pulled off the road at a place with a group of restaurants, shops and petrol stations.
I spotted an interesting looking cafe with a name something like 'Rock Springs Cafe'.
I was all excited to try it out, but my daughters insisted on the McDonalds next door.
To me even if it had been terrible, it would have been an interesting memory but who remembers a meal at McDonalds.
Getting beans in their own little dish when you get a breakfast is the one I don't like.
Yes. Some establishments 'don't do beans.'Debatable whether or not they should even be there in the first place.
Yes. Some establishments 'don't do beans.'
That's rubbish! !I stayed in a hotel once and the owner said he didn't serve beans with breakfast as he would lose his 5 star Wales tourist board rating!
That's rubbish! !
Surely no establishment in Wales has 5 stars.
I got moaned at for requesting a room with a bath and was then lectured about how much more it costs to provide one rather than a shower and then when shown to our room the bloke said there's the bed you will have sex in later...
Might as well try Earlsdon then.
Second thoughts, have a chat with John Sparp the Don of Earlsdon.
Sozz all you Earlsdon folk, no offence intended.
Now what was the name of that popular old place behind the Jag across the car park.
Stagebite too much like TGIF but before they appeared and independent kind of too.
One day I'm going to open an artisan baked bean speakeasy with exposed brick decor, cocktails served in mason jars made with bean juice, and all 57 varieties of Heinz.
Millionaire!
Yep. Ex pats used to yearn for them. My brother lived in the States for about 12 years.I once saw an English shop in Florida selling all the stuff ex pats couldn't get over there.
One window was just a display of Heinz baked beans! Can't remember the cost per tin but I do remember it was expensive.
I once saw an English shop in Florida selling all the stuff ex pats couldn't get over there.
One window was just a display of Heinz baked beans! Can't remember the cost per tin but I do remember it was expensive.
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