Starbucks coming to Restoration Plaza...

A friend of mine who owns a business on Fulton and Brooklyn inform me that Starbucks is coming to Retoration Plaza.

Very interesting... Starbucks is too expensive to me to visit regularly, but I might pop in for a chai latte or something... Where would it go? Did your friend mention when this might happen?

Does anyone know how Applebees is doing? I don't go much because they don't have a lot of good-value vegetarian options. Every time I walk by they are pretty empty. Maybe I just don't walk by during prime Applebees times?

A store owner directly across the street from Restoration Plaza, on Fulton, told my sister that they was going to be an HSBC bank opening up next door.

The Applebees on Dekalb and Flatbush does very good business. On weekends and evenings I frequently see it packed.

Oh, I just realized that wasn't the Applebees you were talking about. Nevermind!

But still, it's interesting that it's doing so much better than the one in Restoration Plaza (unless I really am just missing the busy-times as the one in Restoration Plaza), so that's a good observation bifteck.
I like the IDEA of sit-down restaurants in the area, even if I'm not an Applebees fan. I like their "onion skins" I guess.
And a Starbucks would be interesting - I wonder how they'd do in Restoration Plaza...

OK, where is Restoration Plaza?

Fulton between New York/Marcy and Brooklyn/Thompkins

The Applebees in Restoration does great dinner and weekend business

Brooklyn Record picked this up!
http://www.brooklynrecord.com/archives/2006/11/is_starbucks_co.html
I like the coffee at BP (Atlantic and Brooklyn) ... they have some sweetened frothy stuff, and half that and half coffee, it's nice! --E.