The visiting Irish businessman liked a Queenstown couple's juice bar business opportunity so much he's buying the Ireland franchise. Irishman Aidan Morrison first discovered the Juice Stop franchise at Queenstown's Steamer Wharf during his honeymoon.

Morrison and business partner Willie McHale have initial plans to open 20-30 franchise stores across Ireland, replicating the Steamer Wharf operation. It's a deal shaping up as a windfall for Juice bar franchise owners Martine Baanvinger and husband Pew Singh.

They opened the start up Juice Stop business in December 2004, with plans to eventually franchise it, but as Singh points out not so quickly and not so internationally. A September opening has been pencilled in for the first overseas Juice Stop franchising business, in Malahide.