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Karl wrote:I think if you walk from Callaghan Square you are probably walking into town anyway. Unless you really like Coffee No 1 why stop in the Golden Cross? Ditto those staying in hotels. The student tower will not be built until 2018 at the earliest I reckon.
If I was Brains I would look at one of the units in High Street/Church Street. A few of the empty ones were formerly catering units, there is much greater footfall, and it covers that end of town. Plus that end is becoming much more food/drink led so Coffee No 1 would be a good fit.
Just my two pennorth. I am not a coffee shop magnate or indeed do I have any experience in the hospitality business or business in general but somehow I feel qualified to give unsolicited advice to Brains on strategic decisions.
I think I would have agreed with you at one point, but then I said that Coffee#1 under The Aspect wasn't a great idea and it seems really busy all the time.
When you think about it, what can The Golden Cross be instead? It doesn't seem to work as a bar, is too small to be a restaurant, and for the reasons that you've given it would be difficult to extend upstairs as M&B did with The Kings Cross to make The Corner House.
I agree as rumours go it seems a little far fetched considering there are few changes which could be made to the decor, but I'm not sure if much work would be needed to turn The Golden into a coffee house if they chose to make the existing interior into a feature.
Crucially, Brains have form for this, having previously converted a grade 2 listed pub into a Coffee#1 in Leominster, and another in Aberystwyth.