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Bamboo raises €500k seed round to further expand
by: Startacus Admin ~ 5th April 2018Bamboo, an Irish based app that lets you order lunch and coffee from all the best spots around you - whilst skipping the queues, raises a €500k seed round from Enterprise Ireland and six private investors.
Launched approximately a year ago, Bamboo has done pretty well for it's first 12 months. They've partnered with 100+ restaurants and cafes in Ireland, seen monthly average order growth on ...
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London's Quirkiest Cafés
by: Startacus Admin ~ 13th April 2015At Startacus we love hearing about things that you don’t see every day. Using your imagination in the right way can end up paying off extremely well. You may end up surprising yourself and that bright idea that you thought was a little bit too off-the-wall may end up working better than you ever imagined!
This can certainly be said about all the weird and wonderful cafés which seem t...
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Shoreditch based Imaginary Café Serves up platters of nothing
by: Startacus Admin ~ 15th January 2015Well it was only a matter of time wasn't it? What with cereal only cafés and crisp sandwich restaurants making the headlines lately, no one was surprised to hear of the launch of the most alternative eatery yet to hit the UK high street.
'Imaginary Café' has the spurious accolade of being the first UK café to specialise in the serving of...absolutely nothing.
Yes, hungr...
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Lady Dinah's Cat Emporium- Londons first cat café
by: Startacus Admin ~ 3rd April 2014There’s an old saying that goes “Sometimes the craziest ideas are the best ones”- or something along those general lines - and here at startacus we are certainly no stranger to weird and wonderful ideas… but this one left even us somewhat amazed.
Lady Dinah’s Cat Emporium- is the fittingly majestic title bestowed upon London’s most bizarre cafe newcomer. The t...
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Pop up inspiration - Propstore
by: ~ 13th May 2013If you are in the midst of preparing to run your first pop up shop / space / cafe and so on, you could do no better than to take a look at the Propstore - the National Theatre's unique summertime pop-up riverfront café-bar...
Propstore, the National Theatre’s pop up riverfront café-bar is back for 2013. Built with and from the sets and scenery from National Theatre productions...
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