For the past year or so we here at mylunch have been debunking the idea that there’s no such thing as a free lunch! With lunch 2 for 1’s and comp prizes galore, that saying should be well and truly gone from your vocabulary at this stage!
The myth was once again challenged last Friday when the mylunch.ie crew were kindly invited along to the 2nd annual Nature Valley lunch picnic in Merrion Square! The overcast weather didn’t put a dampener on proceedings and a large crowd turned out to sample the joys of Dublin lunch al fresco style!
Groups of people crowded the Mount Street end of the lovely park, lazing on picnic blankets which were kindly supplied by Nature Valley, and listening to the soothing jazz sounds of a local band that played for the whole event.
All those who attended were handed a lovely bag of goodies, which included an orange, two Nature Valley bars, a sandwich and an RTE Guide to while the hour away! The lunch was greatly appreciated by all, and personally I’m currently addicted to the Oats and Honey Nature Valley bar!
The event went on until half past two, and all who attended went home, or back to work, with full bellies!
Another plus was that there wasn’t a pesky bear, who thought he was smarter than your average, in sight!
You can check out the pictures from the event here, and thanks to all at Nature Valley for their kind hospitality!
If you’d like more free lunches, or even great value ones, as well as more obscure Yogi Bear references, come on over to the site!
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Monday, September 13, 2010
Monday, August 9, 2010
Return to the Southside: Aviva Aviva Ándale Ándale!*
The brand spanking new Aviva Stadium (Lansdowne Rd. to the traditionalists out there) opened it’s doors for the first time last Saturday week. With a space age structure forming what will now surely be seen as one of Europe’s finest stadiums (the less said about the miniscule North Stand the better), the spiritual home of Irish rugby and soccer is back! Along with this, a 50,000 capacity stadium is sure to bring it’s fair share of hungry people to the area, and more about that later.
First of all a closer look at the raw data behind the stadium, which is set to hold its first competitive fixture on Wednesday night (Airtricity X1 1 Man Utd 7 is not competitive!), with our boys in green hosting Leo Messi’s Argentina. In engineering terms, the project was a massive feat, with the area occupied nearing 64,000 sq m, and a need for a low North Stand, to preserve sunlight into the adjoining houses. 5,000 tonnes of structural steel was used in construction, with 4,000,000 man hours involved!
As per the Aviva site, enhanced press facilities mean space for up to 200 journalists (increasing to 400 for certain events). There are 10,000 seats at premium level and a further 1,300 at box level many of which have already been sold for years in advance, while it is estimated that 70,000 pints of stout and lager, 3,000 hot whiskeys, 2,000 portions of fish and chips, 4,000 speciality ‘Aviva’ gourmet burgers and 5,000 hot beef sandwiches will be served on any given matchday (of course the hot whiskey sales will go up dramatically on a cold 6 Nations rugby weekend!). This will be supplemented by 900 catering staff, and 48 chefs (who presumably will be worked off their feet!)
Impressive eh? Plus with both the soccer and rugby boys enjoying a period of good success, the stadium will be full on many occasions in the coming years.
But with the hiatus to Croker, have you forgotten where to eat in the area? Ireland’s best lunch deals site can help here! We’ve got lots of options to feed hungry match goers.
But with the hiatus to Croker, have you forgotten where to eat in the area? Ireland’s best lunch deals site can help here! We’ve got lots of options to feed hungry match goers.
The aptly named Lansdowne Hotel on Pembroke Road offers a daily chef’s special which today for example is Lasagne for €7.00, as well as a full selection of delicious paninis and wraps from €5.50, and a full lunch menu.
The traditional watering route from the city centre, down Baggot St., has a number of options. The Baggot Inn (Homemade Baggot Burger €10.00), The 51 on Haddington Road (Chicken Curry €9.90) and Millers (Oaked Irish Smoked Salmon €7.50) are all great options for great value lunch in Dublin.
Maia on Shelbourne Road (Pasta of the Day + Glass of Wine €12) and Ocean Bar on Grand Canal Dock (Chefs Daily Pasta €9.50) are also great lunch options in the area, while for an Asian inspired meal, try Kanum, where you can avail of free prawn crackers when you mention mylunch.ie.
So now you are armed with all the information on both the stadium and surrounding lunch deals, all that’s needed is Brian O Driscoll scoring a few tries or Robbie Keane netting a cracker from 25 yards to cap off a great day!
Of course these lunch specials are available throughout the week also, and many are updated daily on www.mylunch.ie
*So who got the Speedy Gonzales reference in the title then?!
Sources: www.avivastadium.ie www.irishtimes.ie
Sources: www.avivastadium.ie www.irishtimes.ie
Friday, May 21, 2010
Invite A Friend To Lunch:
Folks we’ve just launched a handy new facility on mylunch.ie that we think you’ll love.
Most of us belong to a lunch crew of some sort, maybe even a couple of them… one crew from work, the other a few mates working not too far away. But as we all know getting the whole posse together can be more difficult these days, with everyone being busier, and more under pressure than ever. So we thought we’d help you out with our brand new ‘Invitation Generator’! It’s a quick and easy way to get all the info to the right people in double time!
You simply go to www.mylunch.ie and find a restaurant, cafe or bar whose specials or menu you think everyone will like and click on the ‘invite a friend to lunch button’ on that venue’s page. Then just add the time, date and your mates’ email addresses and bingo, you’re done! You all get an email with a link to the menu and specials of the venue you’ve chosen so everyone can have a quick look with no hassle. Problem solved! We can’t guarantee that they’ll all be free but we’ve made it as easy as possible for them to say yes!
Let’s face it, work is busier and a lot more stressful these days so we all need to make the most of our lunch break! With this in mind, we are also offering you the chance to win free lunch for you and your friends as a reward for putting our Invitation Generator to use. Lucky winners will be picked at random and will receive lunch on us at the venue they have selected. Who says there’s no such thing as a free lunch?!
Register on www.mylunch.ie to use the Invitation Generator and to be in with a chance to win free lunch for you and your friends.
Most of us belong to a lunch crew of some sort, maybe even a couple of them… one crew from work, the other a few mates working not too far away. But as we all know getting the whole posse together can be more difficult these days, with everyone being busier, and more under pressure than ever. So we thought we’d help you out with our brand new ‘Invitation Generator’! It’s a quick and easy way to get all the info to the right people in double time!
You simply go to www.mylunch.ie and find a restaurant, cafe or bar whose specials or menu you think everyone will like and click on the ‘invite a friend to lunch button’ on that venue’s page. Then just add the time, date and your mates’ email addresses and bingo, you’re done! You all get an email with a link to the menu and specials of the venue you’ve chosen so everyone can have a quick look with no hassle. Problem solved! We can’t guarantee that they’ll all be free but we’ve made it as easy as possible for them to say yes!
Let’s face it, work is busier and a lot more stressful these days so we all need to make the most of our lunch break! With this in mind, we are also offering you the chance to win free lunch for you and your friends as a reward for putting our Invitation Generator to use. Lucky winners will be picked at random and will receive lunch on us at the venue they have selected. Who says there’s no such thing as a free lunch?!
Register on www.mylunch.ie to use the Invitation Generator and to be in with a chance to win free lunch for you and your friends.
Thursday, April 22, 2010
What is the Best Value Sandwich Around?
mylunch.ie is about providing consumers information on the best value lunch available across restaurants, cafés, bars & sandwich shops, but we want you to help us out to; we want your opinions. This week up for discussion is:
What is the best value sandwich around?
The Contenders:
• The SPAR, Chicken Fillet Roll
• The Subway 6’' Meatball Marinara Sub
• O’Briens Triple Decker
• The Munchies Chicken Woopie
• Fallon & Byrne’s Ultimate Club Sandwich
All are signature classics of these five popular Dublin lunch venues but which offers the best bite for your buck? We want to your opinion:
•The Chicken Fillet Roll, the staple of many a student diet. A white or brown bread roll containing a hot sliced breaded chicken fillet generally combined with mayo & lettuce. Prepared quickly and normally quite filling, and it has added bonus of being considered satisfactory as a hot meal intake by many.
€1.99 SPAR Dame Street
•The Meatball Sub, tender Meatballs in a tomato sauce with any combination of cheese, salad & dressing & served on a choice of breads. Availing of the Sub of the Day deal (Tuesdays €2.99, FYI) it is even greater value. But do you need to get a Footlong Sub to satisfy your hunger?
€3.99 Subway Baggot Street
•The Chicken & Bacon Triple Decker Sandwich, a multi-layered mouthful that can just about hold the wide variety of complementary ingredients (chicken, bacon, cheese, coleslaw, onions…). Filling but can be expensive (particularly with an extra charge if you want the bread toasted) but still deemed great value and a popular lunchtime favourite.
€5.65 generally
•The Chicken Woopie, Munchies' best known sandwich, contains roast chicken, melted cheddar hot chilli mayonnaise, lettuce tomato & ballymaloe relish combined in a way that does the sandwich’s celebratory name justice. Tasty but maybe not as filling as some of the other contenders.
€5.40 Munchies, South William Street
•The Ultimate Club, a gastronomic gourmet delight; chicken, bacon, tomato and a good helping of mayo, with the option of having it toasted. A tad pricey at €6.25 but the €7 soup & sandwich offer available at Fallon & Byrne makes it much better value.
These are just a few sample contenders but if you can think of any others to rival these 5 that have become so widely popular let us know what they are and why they are great lunch value.
What is the best value sandwich around?
The Contenders:
• The SPAR, Chicken Fillet Roll
• The Subway 6’' Meatball Marinara Sub
• O’Briens Triple Decker
• The Munchies Chicken Woopie
• Fallon & Byrne’s Ultimate Club Sandwich
All are signature classics of these five popular Dublin lunch venues but which offers the best bite for your buck? We want to your opinion:
•The Chicken Fillet Roll, the staple of many a student diet. A white or brown bread roll containing a hot sliced breaded chicken fillet generally combined with mayo & lettuce. Prepared quickly and normally quite filling, and it has added bonus of being considered satisfactory as a hot meal intake by many.
€1.99 SPAR Dame Street
•The Meatball Sub, tender Meatballs in a tomato sauce with any combination of cheese, salad & dressing & served on a choice of breads. Availing of the Sub of the Day deal (Tuesdays €2.99, FYI) it is even greater value. But do you need to get a Footlong Sub to satisfy your hunger?
€3.99 Subway Baggot Street
•The Chicken & Bacon Triple Decker Sandwich, a multi-layered mouthful that can just about hold the wide variety of complementary ingredients (chicken, bacon, cheese, coleslaw, onions…). Filling but can be expensive (particularly with an extra charge if you want the bread toasted) but still deemed great value and a popular lunchtime favourite.
€5.65 generally
•The Chicken Woopie, Munchies' best known sandwich, contains roast chicken, melted cheddar hot chilli mayonnaise, lettuce tomato & ballymaloe relish combined in a way that does the sandwich’s celebratory name justice. Tasty but maybe not as filling as some of the other contenders.
€5.40 Munchies, South William Street
•The Ultimate Club, a gastronomic gourmet delight; chicken, bacon, tomato and a good helping of mayo, with the option of having it toasted. A tad pricey at €6.25 but the €7 soup & sandwich offer available at Fallon & Byrne makes it much better value.
These are just a few sample contenders but if you can think of any others to rival these 5 that have become so widely popular let us know what they are and why they are great lunch value.
Thursday, March 18, 2010
www.mylunch.ie brings lunch value to the consumer
www.mylunch.ie has been up and running for almost 4 months now so many thanks for all your feedback, support and usage of our website. As I’m sure you are aware, we are focused on providing consumers with the most up-to-date lunch information and the best lunchtime value. The former has been achieved through daily interactions with retailers, bringing what they are displaying on their daily specials blackboards to their personalised www.mylunch.ie pages.
The latter has been boosted by great offers being run by retailers exclusive to www.mylunch.ie. The www.mylunch.ie vouchers have proven a roaring success, with the right offer bringing consumers flocking to avail of it. 2-for-1 lunch is something a lot of people are liking the sound of at the moment, with 2-for-1 lunch vouchers available on www.mylunch.ie for venues such as Dandelion, The Baggot Inn, Oil Can Harry's and the Ocean Bar, and 2-for-1 coffee at West Coast Coffee proving very popular.
Retailers have benefited too because they are not really losing out on 50 per cent of a purchase. Consumers are appreciating the effort being made and end up purchasing drinks/coffees/desserts to go with their meal because they know they are already getting that extra bit of value.
We would love to know your thoughts on the value you have been achieving thanks to www.mylunch.ie. As was stated above, bringing value to the consumer is a key focus of our business and we will have more great offers (including more free lunch with the 2-for-1 vouchers) coming onto the site over the coming weeks, so keep an eye out on the website for these as well as the other great offers.
The latter has been boosted by great offers being run by retailers exclusive to www.mylunch.ie. The www.mylunch.ie vouchers have proven a roaring success, with the right offer bringing consumers flocking to avail of it. 2-for-1 lunch is something a lot of people are liking the sound of at the moment, with 2-for-1 lunch vouchers available on www.mylunch.ie for venues such as Dandelion, The Baggot Inn, Oil Can Harry's and the Ocean Bar, and 2-for-1 coffee at West Coast Coffee proving very popular.
Retailers have benefited too because they are not really losing out on 50 per cent of a purchase. Consumers are appreciating the effort being made and end up purchasing drinks/coffees/desserts to go with their meal because they know they are already getting that extra bit of value.
We would love to know your thoughts on the value you have been achieving thanks to www.mylunch.ie. As was stated above, bringing value to the consumer is a key focus of our business and we will have more great offers (including more free lunch with the 2-for-1 vouchers) coming onto the site over the coming weeks, so keep an eye out on the website for these as well as the other great offers.
Monday, February 8, 2010
If We Had a 100,000 Users
So it’s like this. www.mylunch.ie is a new website, and like many new websites it was started with great intentions in mind. We want to bring value and choice to all our users, whether it’s a 2-for-1 lunch voucher, or a free bottle of water with your sandwich, we want to know about it, so we can bring it to you.
So far we’ve got a number of these deals on our site, but we want more.... a lot more. We want to ensure that any user of www.mylunch.ie, anywhere in Ireland, can find the best lunch value in their area, on any given day, on www.mylunch.ie. We want to ensure that our users know which retailers on their street are willing to go the extra mile and fight for their custom. We want our users to get a great lunch, at great value, but we also want to reward the retailers that are making that extra effort for your business. That way, they keep running specials, and you keep getting value. The best way that we can do that is by bringing them custom from our users.
So if we want to bring you the best deals in your area, then we need to let the retailers know that we have the users. This begs the question, what would www.mylunch.ie do if we had a 100,000 users.
First off, 100,000 monthly users may sound like a lot, but this wouldn’t even put www.mylunch.ie in the Top 30 busiest websites in Ireland, so it’s a good place to start. Most of all though, 100,000 users would mean that rather than www.mylunch.ie going to the retailers and asking them to run a lunch offer for our members, retailers would be coming to www.mylunch.ie and asking for a way to target our users. In other words, www.mylunch.ie would have the combined bargaining power of 100,000 users (are you thinking He-Man at Castle Greyskull? or is it just me)
So what could we do with all that power? Well at www.mylunch.ie our concern is about 2 things.... your stomach and your wallet, so let’s keep the focus on these.
First off, www.mylunch.ie is about real choice. This means bringing you a wide selection of retailers, from the convenient shop on the corner, to the bar down the road, to the Michelin recommended restaurant around the corner that you didn’t even know was there. With a 100,000 users we will get 2,000 retailers on www.mylunch.ie before the year is out. That means that wherever you work in Ireland, we will have the retailers in your area on our site, and we will continue to ensure that we display their menu updated on a daily basis (because that’s just what we do).
So let’s talk about your wallet (or purse for the fairer among us). To date we run a lot of vouchers on www.mylunch.ie, but here’s the thing.... whether it’s a hangover of days that have passed, or something deeper in the Irish psyche, we’ve found that people just don’t like using vouchers with lunch unless there’s a significant saving involved. So with a 100,000 users, there would be great benefits available with the www.mylunch.ie card. All you will need to do is check out www.mylunch.ie before going for lunch and see the retailers that are running special promotions for www.mylunch.ie cardholders. Then simply show your card when ordering or paying and you could benefit from a range of treats be they 2-for-1 offers, a free beverage with your meal, or maybe an upgrade on the size of your coffee. What you can be sure of though, is with a 100,000 of these cards in circulation in Ireland, every retailer will want to show the www.mylunch.ie users that they are willing to fight for your custom.
All of this means your week of lunching will result in better variety, and more money in your pocket. So if you think www.mylunch.ie having 100,000 users sounds like a good thing, then help us make it happen. Visit www.mylunch.ie and register today for updates and our regular competitions, tell your friends about www.mylunch.ie, become a fan of www.mylunch.ie on facebook, follow us on twitter, (tweet or retweet) or create a link from your webpage to ours and help us all.
Thanks for reading
So far we’ve got a number of these deals on our site, but we want more.... a lot more. We want to ensure that any user of www.mylunch.ie, anywhere in Ireland, can find the best lunch value in their area, on any given day, on www.mylunch.ie. We want to ensure that our users know which retailers on their street are willing to go the extra mile and fight for their custom. We want our users to get a great lunch, at great value, but we also want to reward the retailers that are making that extra effort for your business. That way, they keep running specials, and you keep getting value. The best way that we can do that is by bringing them custom from our users.
So if we want to bring you the best deals in your area, then we need to let the retailers know that we have the users. This begs the question, what would www.mylunch.ie do if we had a 100,000 users.
First off, 100,000 monthly users may sound like a lot, but this wouldn’t even put www.mylunch.ie in the Top 30 busiest websites in Ireland, so it’s a good place to start. Most of all though, 100,000 users would mean that rather than www.mylunch.ie going to the retailers and asking them to run a lunch offer for our members, retailers would be coming to www.mylunch.ie and asking for a way to target our users. In other words, www.mylunch.ie would have the combined bargaining power of 100,000 users (are you thinking He-Man at Castle Greyskull? or is it just me)
So what could we do with all that power? Well at www.mylunch.ie our concern is about 2 things.... your stomach and your wallet, so let’s keep the focus on these.
First off, www.mylunch.ie is about real choice. This means bringing you a wide selection of retailers, from the convenient shop on the corner, to the bar down the road, to the Michelin recommended restaurant around the corner that you didn’t even know was there. With a 100,000 users we will get 2,000 retailers on www.mylunch.ie before the year is out. That means that wherever you work in Ireland, we will have the retailers in your area on our site, and we will continue to ensure that we display their menu updated on a daily basis (because that’s just what we do).
So let’s talk about your wallet (or purse for the fairer among us). To date we run a lot of vouchers on www.mylunch.ie, but here’s the thing.... whether it’s a hangover of days that have passed, or something deeper in the Irish psyche, we’ve found that people just don’t like using vouchers with lunch unless there’s a significant saving involved. So with a 100,000 users, there would be great benefits available with the www.mylunch.ie card. All you will need to do is check out www.mylunch.ie before going for lunch and see the retailers that are running special promotions for www.mylunch.ie cardholders. Then simply show your card when ordering or paying and you could benefit from a range of treats be they 2-for-1 offers, a free beverage with your meal, or maybe an upgrade on the size of your coffee. What you can be sure of though, is with a 100,000 of these cards in circulation in Ireland, every retailer will want to show the www.mylunch.ie users that they are willing to fight for your custom.
All of this means your week of lunching will result in better variety, and more money in your pocket. So if you think www.mylunch.ie having 100,000 users sounds like a good thing, then help us make it happen. Visit www.mylunch.ie and register today for updates and our regular competitions, tell your friends about www.mylunch.ie, become a fan of www.mylunch.ie on facebook, follow us on twitter, (tweet or retweet) or create a link from your webpage to ours and help us all.
Thanks for reading
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
A Week Of Using www.mylunch.ie To Decide My Lunch: The Outcome
So I decided it was time to put www.mylunch.ie to the test, the test being to select places to go for lunch every day this week based on the offers they were displaying on the www.mylunch.ie website and to see what lunchtime value was really out there.
Here is how I got on:
Monday
The Monday blues were in full force and I wasn’t feeling too social, so I went for a quick soup and a sandwich from Spar on Dame Street. This cost me €4, including a free 500ml bottle of water. A good start to the week I thought.
Tuesday
Feeling a little more social, I decided to meet a friend for lunch and check out Dandelion’s new special offer. They are running a voucher on www.mylunch.ie Monday to Wednesday of 2 main courses for the price of 1. I printed off the voucher and made my way to Dandelion. Friendly staff, great food and a super location. I went for a chicken fajita and fries for €11.00 and my friend went for the lasagne at €10.95, so with our voucher it worked out at just €5.50 each… Sweet.
Wednesday
Café en Seine’s new offer looked intriguing so I decided to check it out. €5.90 for Soup & a Sandwich and I was very impressed. One of Dublin’s most upmarket night venues offering great lunchtime value too.
Thursday
Feeling like something different yet healthy, I headed for Wagamama. They’ve a great lunch special menu and I went for the yaki soba for €9.95, which came with a choice of free drinks. As I said, I was feeling healthy so I went for the Apple Juice, but the offer of a free Tiger Beer was very tempting.
Friday
It being the start of the weekend, we in at the office decided to treat ourselves. We checked the site and found that FXB on Lower Pembroke Street were serving up a steak sandwich for only €10. These guys are known for their great steaks, so at just €10, this capped a great week’s lunching.
So I think that’s some quality lunchtime eating for an average of just over €7 a day.
Think about what you spent this week. Did you get the same choice & value?
We’d love to hear your thoughts…..
Here is how I got on:
Monday
The Monday blues were in full force and I wasn’t feeling too social, so I went for a quick soup and a sandwich from Spar on Dame Street. This cost me €4, including a free 500ml bottle of water. A good start to the week I thought.
Tuesday
Feeling a little more social, I decided to meet a friend for lunch and check out Dandelion’s new special offer. They are running a voucher on www.mylunch.ie Monday to Wednesday of 2 main courses for the price of 1. I printed off the voucher and made my way to Dandelion. Friendly staff, great food and a super location. I went for a chicken fajita and fries for €11.00 and my friend went for the lasagne at €10.95, so with our voucher it worked out at just €5.50 each… Sweet.
Wednesday
Café en Seine’s new offer looked intriguing so I decided to check it out. €5.90 for Soup & a Sandwich and I was very impressed. One of Dublin’s most upmarket night venues offering great lunchtime value too.
Thursday
Feeling like something different yet healthy, I headed for Wagamama. They’ve a great lunch special menu and I went for the yaki soba for €9.95, which came with a choice of free drinks. As I said, I was feeling healthy so I went for the Apple Juice, but the offer of a free Tiger Beer was very tempting.
Friday
It being the start of the weekend, we in at the office decided to treat ourselves. We checked the site and found that FXB on Lower Pembroke Street were serving up a steak sandwich for only €10. These guys are known for their great steaks, so at just €10, this capped a great week’s lunching.
So I think that’s some quality lunchtime eating for an average of just over €7 a day.
Think about what you spent this week. Did you get the same choice & value?
We’d love to hear your thoughts…..
Friday, December 18, 2009
mylunch.ie, The Hottest Lunchtime Offers:
Our lunch specials and offers website, www.mylunch.ie, has been up and running since November and we’ve had a great response so thanks to all who have become regular viewers and users of the site.
We’ve set up the website so that it is as user-friendly as possible and easily brings people to the information most useful to them. Say you are working in an office on Lower Baggott Street, our research tells us that your main lunch concern will be what lunch offers are available in the surrounding area. A visit to www.mylunch.ie and a quick selection from our homepage dropdowns shows you what restaurants, cafés and pubs have lunch specials available in and around that street. A click on one of these retailer’s logos then shows you the lunch offers they are running for that day.
The fact that we update retailers’ lunch specials daily means it will definitely be worth your while to check back to the site any time you are thinking about lunch. As we mentioned in our last blog, we are about promoting lunch value, so if you want to easily know where this value lies then your best bet is to consult the www.mylunch.ie website.
Our stance on who to include on the site was to be open-minded. We want to cater for the needs of everyone; from those looking for a low cost lunch to those looking for the best value fine dining. People’s lunch venue preferences and requirements do change daily so our site has factored in these changes and everyone should be able to find something to their liking on any given day.
Our site and our business offer a new, original experience so we would be delighted to get some feedback on how people are making use of the site in fulfilling their lunch needs. We would love to know what influences your searches (e.g. would you primarily click on the lunch venues you are familiar with or do the places less well known to you draw your attention more?) and how often do you actually end up buying the offers you have seen through our site?
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We’ve set up the website so that it is as user-friendly as possible and easily brings people to the information most useful to them. Say you are working in an office on Lower Baggott Street, our research tells us that your main lunch concern will be what lunch offers are available in the surrounding area. A visit to www.mylunch.ie and a quick selection from our homepage dropdowns shows you what restaurants, cafés and pubs have lunch specials available in and around that street. A click on one of these retailer’s logos then shows you the lunch offers they are running for that day.
The fact that we update retailers’ lunch specials daily means it will definitely be worth your while to check back to the site any time you are thinking about lunch. As we mentioned in our last blog, we are about promoting lunch value, so if you want to easily know where this value lies then your best bet is to consult the www.mylunch.ie website.
Our stance on who to include on the site was to be open-minded. We want to cater for the needs of everyone; from those looking for a low cost lunch to those looking for the best value fine dining. People’s lunch venue preferences and requirements do change daily so our site has factored in these changes and everyone should be able to find something to their liking on any given day.
Our site and our business offer a new, original experience so we would be delighted to get some feedback on how people are making use of the site in fulfilling their lunch needs. We would love to know what influences your searches (e.g. would you primarily click on the lunch venues you are familiar with or do the places less well known to you draw your attention more?) and how often do you actually end up buying the offers you have seen through our site?
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Monday, November 16, 2009
It is Now the Era of the Lunch Deal
My concern for the lunch hour has prompted me into action. I know I said before that lunch was about more than just a meal, but if you walk around Dublin these days you will see some great lunch deals.
Admittedly in the past the off-putting high prices could have influenced my lunch preference for a quick take-away sandwich accompanied with a quick retreat back to the office. Now though things have definitely changed, and even though people might have less spring in their step about work I think they can at least find some comfort in knowing that they can expect greater value when they go out for lunch, no matter what their dining preference.
Myself and some colleagues are confident that people are recognising that this is the era of the lunch deal and embracing it wholeheartedly, and so we are developing a website, www.mylunch.ie, that will conveniently show people just where this lunch value lies and the lunch specials that are on offer in these outlets that day.
Anyone else been impressed by the newfound eagerness for business being expressed by lunch retailers through their updated deals and specials?
Admittedly in the past the off-putting high prices could have influenced my lunch preference for a quick take-away sandwich accompanied with a quick retreat back to the office. Now though things have definitely changed, and even though people might have less spring in their step about work I think they can at least find some comfort in knowing that they can expect greater value when they go out for lunch, no matter what their dining preference.
Myself and some colleagues are confident that people are recognising that this is the era of the lunch deal and embracing it wholeheartedly, and so we are developing a website, www.mylunch.ie, that will conveniently show people just where this lunch value lies and the lunch specials that are on offer in these outlets that day.
Anyone else been impressed by the newfound eagerness for business being expressed by lunch retailers through their updated deals and specials?
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Give me back my lunch hour!
What ever happened to the lunch hour? I now find that lunch has become something you have to get over with quickly because time away from the desk is time away from productivity. Most days my lunch is eaten at my desk, in between calls to clients. I am sure many of you face a similar situation as a rushed lunch appears to be becoming the standard practice everywhere.
I can just about remember the days when the lunch break had meaning and was something to be treasured.
For me, with a lunch hour came:
-Less stress
-Greater job satisfaction
-A greater sense of freedom
-A more sociable working environment
-A chance to get some fresh air
-A work day that went by quicker
I miss these forgotten days and I want to start a petition for a reinstatement of the lunch hour. Are you with me comrades?!
I can just about remember the days when the lunch break had meaning and was something to be treasured.
For me, with a lunch hour came:
-Less stress
-Greater job satisfaction
-A greater sense of freedom
-A more sociable working environment
-A chance to get some fresh air
-A work day that went by quicker
I miss these forgotten days and I want to start a petition for a reinstatement of the lunch hour. Are you with me comrades?!
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