It’s getting tougher out there. I also read today that Three Ireland are making about 10% of their staff redundant.
That’s a shame, they did some nice food. Another one bites the dust.
Is it the rent?
energy prices + rent are too high. min wage + the tax warehousing scheme will take all the flak instead
It wasn’t the best but it wasn’t the worst
(Zambrero)
Boojum has turned to muck also.
What’s left that’s good? Pablo picante and el grito?
So ends the last gasp of the [great burrito wars of the 2010s](https://universitytimes.ie/2013/01/the-burrito-wars/). Tolteca consigned to the dust bin of history along with burritos&blues. Boojum now the undisputed king of the Dublin burrito scene, even as their quality goes down year by year.
Very fond memories of the €5 burrito deals that saw me through college, and the almost-fully stamped loyalty cards they’d hand out during freshers week that ensured 2-for-1 burritos for weeks to come.
It was a great time to be a student in Dublin. Those times are long gone now.
Honestly my favourite place for burrito so devastated but to be fair every time I went I would be the only one in there….
One of the wealthiest countries in Europe, a collapsing hse, crappy public transport, no housing, and restaurants closing everyday ..
One of the worst Tex-Mex places, I won’t miss it.
Aw man, they’re by far the best chain Burito place, that’s a real pisser.
The landscape of the country is changing very quickly. I see someone say “just another Mexican”. That may be the case but we need businesses.
I cannot remember a time where so many businesses are deciding to shut their doors as is happening now. It seems each day we are losing more businesses due to overheads.
2024 is shaping up to be a difficult year.
That’s unfortunate. It was my favourite out of the chains. I really dislike boojum these days, it’s not good.
Never rated it myself, thought they were stingey with the portions and was pretty pricey.
Tolteca in Newcastle Galway has the stingiest portion sizes I’ve ever seen (tiny scoop of meat) so finally justice has been served!
The lads from the Baggot Street branch set up Tula which is quite tasty.
What a shame! They had gone a bit downhill the past few years though.
One thing they definitely had over Boojum was that they could actually fill and wrap burritos properly without it all turning into a mess in your hands. But even that went to shit in the past couple years.
Would this not be better suited for r/Dublin ?
Sucks for them but it of the worst burrito places.
Salsa, El Grito, Pablos all still around and doing great business because they’re good.
Boojum has fallen off since they were bought out.
They’ve all priced themselves out of existence. I refuse to pay over a tenner for a burrito. It’s fast food with incredibly cheap ingredients
This is the way it goes unfortunately – when some new product arrives you get something of a golden age with lots of smaller players competing against each other at relativelycheap prices, but eventually it consolidates down into one or two companies charging increasing prices for a declining product (I’m looking at you, Boojum).
ah yes. the mighty chicken filet roll stands triumphant on the corpse of its greatest rival.
Poor staff! Hoping they find another job sooner rather than later!
Every story that is being pushed about a restaurant shutting – restaurants have an average lifespan of about five years, they shut in huge numbers every year, especially in January – every story being pushed is an attempt to undermine the next minimum wage increase. IBEC has already come out and said there should be no minimum wage increase next year. A restaurant being so shit that they can’t pay people a fair wage is not a useful business. They existed by exploiting workers.
I don’t know what a tolteca is
WTF I was planning to go there this weekend!
They used to do this thing where if you checked in that you were at Tolteca on Facebook, they’d give you free tortilla chips. Brilliant way of creating buzz as well as getting your Facebook friends to mute you 😕
Anyway their chicken was better than Boojum but they were a bit slow and they weren’t as consistent as the big Booj. I only noticed their Camden St branch was shut this week, I hadn’t gone there in years because there were never seats available at lunchtime.
Pity really.
Seems a lot of places are going to the wall since the new year. I’m seeing far too many of these kinds of announcements
Ah Tolteca… holds a great place in my heart. Served me very well during the college years. For me, it was the nicest one of all those burrito chains. Sure Boojum was decent, but Tolteca, there was just something about the flavour that gelled better with me, and they gave me the crunched up tortillas every time for free, and their staff weren’t as overly preppy either, so they did it for me. I got to know Little Ass Burrito too late, so they may have won it for me, but alas we’ll never know.
But back to Tolteca… I remember winning some Facebook Halloween costume competition and they gave me 10 free burritos. I recall using a couple of them for part of my third date with my now wife. It was because of this date, I discovered that she can’t handle spicy food at all. It was the date that I realised that I was starting to fall for the woman.
Oh Tolteca… May God bestow his grace on thee!
I must be the only person that still likes Boojum every now and then. But this is the Limerick one so maybe it’s different in Dublin.
But I do agree it’s mad hit and miss. Sometimes it’s unreal and sometimes just really boring and no x-factor. I don’t know what the difference is, I think it’s when I get there and meat is really fresh.
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It’s getting tougher out there. I also read today that Three Ireland are making about 10% of their staff redundant.
That’s a shame, they did some nice food. Another one bites the dust.
Is it the rent?
energy prices + rent are too high. min wage + the tax warehousing scheme will take all the flak instead
It wasn’t the best but it wasn’t the worst
(Zambrero)
Boojum has turned to muck also.
What’s left that’s good? Pablo picante and el grito?
So ends the last gasp of the [great burrito wars of the 2010s](https://universitytimes.ie/2013/01/the-burrito-wars/). Tolteca consigned to the dust bin of history along with burritos&blues. Boojum now the undisputed king of the Dublin burrito scene, even as their quality goes down year by year.
Very fond memories of the €5 burrito deals that saw me through college, and the almost-fully stamped loyalty cards they’d hand out during freshers week that ensured 2-for-1 burritos for weeks to come.
It was a great time to be a student in Dublin. Those times are long gone now.
Honestly my favourite place for burrito so devastated but to be fair every time I went I would be the only one in there….
One of the wealthiest countries in Europe, a collapsing hse, crappy public transport, no housing, and restaurants closing everyday ..
One of the worst Tex-Mex places, I won’t miss it.
Aw man, they’re by far the best chain Burito place, that’s a real pisser.
The landscape of the country is changing very quickly. I see someone say “just another Mexican”. That may be the case but we need businesses.
I cannot remember a time where so many businesses are deciding to shut their doors as is happening now. It seems each day we are losing more businesses due to overheads.
2024 is shaping up to be a difficult year.
That’s unfortunate. It was my favourite out of the chains. I really dislike boojum these days, it’s not good.
Never rated it myself, thought they were stingey with the portions and was pretty pricey.
Tolteca in Newcastle Galway has the stingiest portion sizes I’ve ever seen (tiny scoop of meat) so finally justice has been served!
The lads from the Baggot Street branch set up Tula which is quite tasty.
What a shame! They had gone a bit downhill the past few years though.
One thing they definitely had over Boojum was that they could actually fill and wrap burritos properly without it all turning into a mess in your hands. But even that went to shit in the past couple years.
Would this not be better suited for r/Dublin ?
Sucks for them but it of the worst burrito places.
Salsa, El Grito, Pablos all still around and doing great business because they’re good.
Boojum has fallen off since they were bought out.
They’ve all priced themselves out of existence. I refuse to pay over a tenner for a burrito. It’s fast food with incredibly cheap ingredients
This is the way it goes unfortunately – when some new product arrives you get something of a golden age with lots of smaller players competing against each other at relativelycheap prices, but eventually it consolidates down into one or two companies charging increasing prices for a declining product (I’m looking at you, Boojum).
ah yes. the mighty chicken filet roll stands triumphant on the corpse of its greatest rival.
Poor staff! Hoping they find another job sooner rather than later!
Every story that is being pushed about a restaurant shutting – restaurants have an average lifespan of about five years, they shut in huge numbers every year, especially in January – every story being pushed is an attempt to undermine the next minimum wage increase. IBEC has already come out and said there should be no minimum wage increase next year. A restaurant being so shit that they can’t pay people a fair wage is not a useful business. They existed by exploiting workers.
I don’t know what a tolteca is
WTF I was planning to go there this weekend!
They used to do this thing where if you checked in that you were at Tolteca on Facebook, they’d give you free tortilla chips. Brilliant way of creating buzz as well as getting your Facebook friends to mute you 😕
Anyway their chicken was better than Boojum but they were a bit slow and they weren’t as consistent as the big Booj. I only noticed their Camden St branch was shut this week, I hadn’t gone there in years because there were never seats available at lunchtime.
Pity really.
Seems a lot of places are going to the wall since the new year. I’m seeing far too many of these kinds of announcements
Ah Tolteca… holds a great place in my heart. Served me very well during the college years. For me, it was the nicest one of all those burrito chains. Sure Boojum was decent, but Tolteca, there was just something about the flavour that gelled better with me, and they gave me the crunched up tortillas every time for free, and their staff weren’t as overly preppy either, so they did it for me. I got to know Little Ass Burrito too late, so they may have won it for me, but alas we’ll never know.
But back to Tolteca… I remember winning some Facebook Halloween costume competition and they gave me 10 free burritos. I recall using a couple of them for part of my third date with my now wife. It was because of this date, I discovered that she can’t handle spicy food at all. It was the date that I realised that I was starting to fall for the woman.
Oh Tolteca… May God bestow his grace on thee!
I must be the only person that still likes Boojum every now and then. But this is the Limerick one so maybe it’s different in Dublin.
But I do agree it’s mad hit and miss. Sometimes it’s unreal and sometimes just really boring and no x-factor. I don’t know what the difference is, I think it’s when I get there and meat is really fresh.
El grito, nuff said
“Let’s keep the recovery going”
Who???