Coffee in Dunlop/Charnwood area?

Apologies Ladyofthelake – Mustn’t have had page scrolled properly when I re-read the post and missed the bottom line. Still, the rest of my comment stands, if you’re gonna go that far, why not go all the way. There’s plenty to choose from at the mall, taking up all the traffic zones from one end to the other….

I know nothing of KFC going to Charnwood *shrugs*, but I do know (on very good authority) that a certain other chicken place will be going there in the near future.

+1 Guru @ Jamison. Never had a bad cuppa there (almost weekly). If you have kiddies, takeaway and the playground on the south of the building is a great option too… I highly recommend the Coles there for shopping, too. Jamo beats Kippax any day (and both beat Charny shops).

There are plenty of reasons to give any mcdonalds a wide berth, you must have pretty useless tastebuds to draw the line at service.

As for Coffee Guru, I’ve given them plenty of last chances and they haven’t once, not once at all, served me a decent coffee. In saying that I haven’t been to the one at jamieson but I won’t be trying it courtesy of the brand’s reputation. Yay franchises!

I hear the coffee at the takeaway is to die for.

Oh no! I just got a flash of the future, trendy boganista’s drinking laaaahtayz in the Chunlop CBD.

Stuff it,,,,drive in to KTBees Kitchen near Spotlight at Qbn and get yourself a good feed..

Gungahlin Maccas is the same at practically ignoring walk-in customers. I think it is actually a policy of Maccas to serve drive-though in Xminutes or they have to give them a free burger.

“Would you like fries with your whine?”

Why yes, I would. But good luck getting them at Charny McDonald’s without a long wait. And even then they will probably give you something else by mistake.

Seriously, go get a cuppa there some day and just sit down and watch. You’ll be amazed at how many times they ask every customer to repeat their order, how disorganised they are and how many customers (both from the drive up and the front counter) come back to complain about their order. Most of the time one person will be at the front counter taking orders and putting them together by themselves no matter how long the queue becomes.

The management there clearly need to lift their game.

“Only place I’ve been able to find is McDonald’s and I’ve decided one of my new year’s resolutions will be not to buy anything from them this year in protest of the horrendous service. They don’t seen to care about anything other than their drive through and customers can wait 15mins before being served if there’s more than two orders at once. Having done that job as a youngster myself, albeit in the US, I just stand there in awe as they ignore customers.”

Would you like fries with your whine?

KFC, oh no – anything else to go with it or just a big KFC?

@wildturkeycanoe

Maybe you should read the OP again. She mentions Kippax and Jamison

Ladyofthelake – the OP was asking about west Belco, if they’d wanted to go as far as Jamison, might as well go to Westfield..Duh!
Chop71 – that block next to Maccas is going to be a KFC, not helping to improve the area much is it?

There’s also a small place at the Holt shops that does coffee, I think they’re only open during the week though

Thanks. Hadn’t noticed the Coffee Bean in Florey and I do stop there from time to time as I like the IGA there. One of the few places that stocks Red Eye (prefer it over Red Bull) and the service is top notch with friendly staff.

Correction: Facet junior who lives in lower west Charnwood has advised that the beverage of choice is International Roast with a slug of Jim Beam.
I also have a good recipe for tea.

“McDonald’s . . . I’ve decided one of my new year’s resolutions will be not to buy anything from them this year in protest of the horrendous service.”

In protest at their service? Why not their alleged “food”? When I returned to fitness training and bodybuilding I blackbanned Maccas and my 2009 new year resolution still hasn’t been broken.

there is a Coffee Guru at the Jamison Centre… mmm coffee!

One heaped spoonful of Moccona Classic Medium Roast coffee, Carnation Light and Creamy (97% less fat) evaporated milk and hot water (sugar or sweetener to taste).
If you complain about the service then you have a fool for a customer.

As Dunlop grows and grows without local shops, You would expect Charnwood shopping centre to improve significantly. Maybe this would explain the new shop fit outs, improved security cameras and what are they building on the block next to Maccas? (I always thought that would be good for a coffee shop)

-1 to the place at the bottom of Kippax. I’ve always found the service to be pretty poor. Not a particularly appealling setting either.

Jammo has some decent coffee shops.

Kippax has a couple of coffee shops, both make good coffee. Not the best atmosphere though. Both are down near the chemist shop.

The Coffee Bean at Florey shops…..beautiful cuppa and really nice couches and newspapers and magazines to just take time out..

Also the food is very nice with homemade cakes….

It is opposite Dominos pizza in the new building.

The place at the bottom of Kippax does good coffee, and their service is good too. And if you shop at woolies, the one at Kippax has a much better range of products, but probably only 2 check-out chicks serving.