Dunkin' sans "Donuts"

[bcla]

Well, not really, but I guess just the name Dunkin'

http://www.masslive.com/news/boston/index.ssf/2018/01/dunkin_store_without_the_donut.html

What do you think?

 

[mumto3girls]

Well, not really, but I guess just the name Dunkin'

http://www.masslive.com/news/boston/index.ssf/2018/01/dunkin_store_without_the_donut.html

What do you think?

My high school aged daughter works there part-time. She says they sell far more drinks—mostly coffee—than food. I guess that is driving the change.

 

[Soldier's*Sweeties]

As long as they don’t scrap the hash browns, they can call themselves anything they’d like.

 

[lovin'fl]

DS works at DD and has for about 4 years. He says they are trying to get away from selling food, other than donuts. Folks often look at them as a fast food lunch/dinner place and they really aren't equipped for that....making sandwiches for a family of 5 with fancy coffee drinks or smoothies. We always called it Dunkin anyways so it sounds good to me.

 

[BigAlsGal]

Aww that’s kind of a bummer. It’s such a classic.

 

[RangerPooh]

We have a DD around the corner from where we live and have gone there twice in the last two years. And only because it was too late in the day for the mom and pop donut shop go be open. I’ll take the local donut shop and Starbucks (both in the same strip mall as DD) over DD any day!

 

[mmouse37]

We have 3 DD's in the immediate vicinity.....my family much prefers the coffee over starbucks but the donuts at DD have steadily gone downhill over the past few years. The taste as well as they have gotten much smaller. We much prefer our Shop Rite grocery store's fresh donuts over the DD donuts. I also hate how you come out smelling like grease when you leave a DD store.

We also call it Dunkin or DD so they can drop the "donuts" part of the name.

MJ

 

[PollyannaMom]

We call it Dunkins anyway, so the name change won't bother me, but the lack of food will. My DS loves the wake-up wraps and hashbrowns for a quick breakfast!

 

[mjkacmom]

We call it dunkin, have 4 under a mile away, my coffe is piping hot when I submit my order on the app before leaving the house. My kids like the donuts every now and then, dd15 likes the hash browns. There are so many delis and coffee shops to grab great sandwiches, I’ve never had one at dunkin, same with Starbucks.

 

[Klayfish]

DW and I don't eat their food, our kids only get donuts or once in a while a bagel. I just hope they don't get rid of the stores that are also a Baskin' Robbins. There's one outside of WDW that's been a family tradition for us since 2003, we go there every single trip.

 

[loves to dive]

I'm old enough to remember when it was time to make the donuts and donuts was all they had. I'm not even sure they had coffee but the donuts were made fresh there at the stores and made more than once throughout the day. Sadly, those days are gone (isn't that part of a song?). From what I understand now the donuts aren't even made on site, they are shipped in in the morning. I like DD, here in the south we have Krispy Kremes, which I hate. They have way too much sugar on them and I can't take more than one bite without being sick. They do make them on site, my honey loves to drive by and see the fresh donut sign on and I don't know if they have all the other stuff, which is a good thing in my eyes, if I could just eat the darn things. I was upset when they added Baskin Robbins because BR was my place, again a true ice cream place where all you could get was ice cream. When they combined them there was no longer as many choices and it just wasn't the same. I'd be more than happy if they went back to just being a donut shop and made the donuts on site.

 

[PollyannaMom]

I'm old enough to remember when it was time to make the donuts and donuts was all they had. I'm not even sure they had coffee...

Ours did have coffee too, but I remember we used to laugh on the drive from upstate NY to MA, as we watched the coffee maker get closer and closer to the resister at each successive stop. - In NY, it was a doughnut shop that happened to have coffee. In MA, if was a coffee shop that happened to have doughnuts.

 

[auntfrannie]

Their donuts are crappy. I stopped by one today at 8 AM to get coffee; they had less than a dozen donuts in the case. You would think they would still have donuts that early in the morning. I don't think they make them on-site anymore like they used to; I think they're brought in frozen.

 

[Christine]

I feel like they aren't doing well and trying to reinvent themselves. The name change/update is a sure sign. The one thing they did well 20 years ago (donuts) they stopped doing. People around me still like donuts but prefer the more "craft" or small-batch kind of places.

 

[Hikergirl]

Doesn't bother me, we call it "DD's" so that isnt likely to change. My ds will be disappointed if they get rid of the wake-up wraps though.

When I was younger my friend worked at one and they used to make the donuts in the store. There be a few of us there with him early in the mornings eating fresh made donuts before the store opened. The good ole days LOL

 

[RedAngie]

The last time I got donuts at a DD was about 3pm. They already tasted stale. I'm sure they were at least 24 hours old by that point.

 

[MIGrandma]

I remember the old TV commercials with the man in them, "time to make the donuts." We don't have any Dunkin' Donut shops around here, but they will always be Dunkin' Donuts to me no matter what they change their name to.

We have Tim Horton's here, I think they make their donuts on-site still though not 100% positive on that. They're good though, DH loves the crullers. I like any that are filled. We don't get them often, just as a treat now and then. We had a Krispy Kreme in Lansing but it closed a few years ago. We stayed a weekend in Grand Rapids before Christmas and saw a Krispy Kreme that "had the light on" so we had to stop. They only give out fresh donut holes now instead of whole donuts, but still just as good. And of course we had to buy a few too!

 

[BrianL]

Once when I was visiting family in RI, my Stepmom wanted to stop at Dunkin. I said I might want to get something, and she said "You don't drink coffee, why would you want something." I said I might want some donuts for morning, and she had completely forgotten that they even sell them. I think a lot of people think of it as a Starbucks, primarily for beverages.

 

[bcla]

I've seen some smaller Krispy Kreme locations that don't actually make anything on site. They seem to get them sent from one of the bigger locations. They might have the "Hot Doughnuts" sign, but they get them sent over and only apply the hot glaze on site.

 

[tarheelmjfan]

This thread surprises me. We have a DD within easy walking distance. When we see an advertisement for the food, we laugh. We tried their quesadillas,when they first introduced them. They were microwaved nastiness. It was a stretch to even call that food. They were truly inedible. I'm surprised to see that people like their hash browns & other food. Do they now actually prepare the food onsite & not just microwave food that is delivered? If they do, that may be another breakfast option for DH.