Casual Dining & Contract Catering Sector

Bunsen to open restaurant at Dublin's Blanchardstown Centre

Hospitality Ireland – 08.03.2021

Burger restaurant chain Bunsen will open a new restaurant at the Blanchardstown Centre in Dublin 15 later this year. As reported by The Irish Times, Bunsen's Blanchardstown Centre restaurant, which will be the chain's first venue at a shopping centre, will be located next to the Krispy Kreme outlet at the shopping centre, and will extend to 190 square metres, or 2,045 square feet. Bunsen will join two other food and drink venues that have just opened at the shopping centre. Offbeat Donuts has opened a new outlet in the Blanchardstown Centre's green mall, and The Art of Coffee has opened a new 65 square metre, or 700 square foot, outlet in the shopping centre's red mall.

Intel to create 1,600 jobs in Ireland

Business Post – 25.03.2021

Intel announced plans to create 1,600 high-tech roles in Ireland and double its manufacturing space in Leixlip following the construction of an additional chip making facility in Kildare. Eamonn Sinnott, Intel Ireland general manager, said that the firm was accelerating its investment in Europe in order to support the EU’s ambition of having 20 per cent of the world’s silicon chips manufactured in the bloc. Intel said it had invested $7 billion in its Irish business between 2019 and 2021 to expand its Irish operation.