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DUBLIN AIRPORT HAS put out a tender looking to replace the existing Spar store in Terminal 2 with a “high quality coffee” offering.
The tender from DAA asks for bidders to run a 127 square metre unit for five years (three years with a two-year extension) and is specifically looking at a coffee shop.
It asks that businesses deliver “a high quality Coffee offer to the Terminal 2 arrivals hall that is capable of appealing to an international market”. DAA says that this unit is needed to satisfy passenger demand.
“The T2 arrivals hall is an international arrivals and departure hub and the emotional epicentre of the Terminal with people returning home to Ireland, visitors landing from across the globe and the entry point for the majority of Americans arriving through Dublin Airport.
“Research and analysis of the current offering in this T2 Landside Area has identified that there is a gap in the zone for a high quality coffee offering along with a strong sandwich / wrap / grab and go offer. Given the mixed profile of users of the area it is essential that the offer has the capability of appealing to the international market.”
The change of the unit will end Spar’s presence in the airport, with its Terminal 1 unit closing in 2016.
The DAA tender says that it is looking for an “internationally recognised” operator which will “simultaneously deliver commercial benefits for both the airport and operator”.
Interested parties will have until 12 February to apply to DAA to take up the tender.
The Greens will be struggling to survive after the madness they have put us through since they got into power.
@Red Line: Can’t you not focus on the subject being discussed instead of taking potshots?
Take your frustration out in the polling booths instead of ruining the comments thread. The destruction of nature threatens our very existence.
@Ollie O’Cleirigh: The Greens are fake environmentalists. For example they approve of mass immigration, no matter of the impact on Ireland’s carbon footprint.
@Ollie O’Cleirigh: public discourse is far more important than voting even though both are important. The greens have set back the green agenda in Ireland for decades with lazy and incompetent political leaders and party members. They constantly commentate on our emissions and come up with no strategy as to how to mitigate them. Not one word from them on nuclear power and investment in our grid which cannot even connect new wind farms as its totally ineffective and at its capacity already. Then when asked about public they talk about hydrogen trains when electric trains would transform the islands public transport. Bicycle lanes painted on the side of roads and south facing window boxes. They are done. Get them out. Impoverishing the poor further particularly rurally will not help.
@Allora: 100%. There a bunch of amateur politicians that got lucky in the last election.
Malcom why is your so called Green party destroying wildlife habitats ,biodiversity killing trees wasting millions of taxpayers money at Lough Funshinagh flood crisis causing the demolition and flooding of homes farmyards and villages in a National housing crisis !! By not allowing the lake return to its natural level!!! Is there a hidden agenda ?
Well said Malcolm. Green policies are becoming accepted in most governments and we need a brave voice.
Just how committed is the government to preserving what’s left of our biodiversity? It allows coursing clubs to capture thousands of our native hares, supposedly a protected species, for the purpose of setting dogs on them. If that can happen to an iconic species that conservationists have dubbed the “Flagship of Irish biodiversity”, then how serious can our leaders be about saving our wildlife heritage? The image of a hare having its bones crushed or being tossed into the air by a coursing dog could aptly represent the attitude of this government to the wild creatures that share the island with us.
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