Dunkin Donuts cost the friken same as Starbucks

[edhopper]

In NYC a medium DD coffee is $1.89, the same as the same size Starbucks. I am so tired of faux-regular folk boasting about going to DD instead of the snobbish Starbucks. It cost the same amount. AND Starbucks are a much more comfortable place to sit with better pastries.

[JVS]

1. Better than the donuts. You must be mad.

I think DD used the non-snob angle to sneak into the game and then raised their prices. I would have expected a medium DD to be 99¢- 1.99

[edhopper]

2. They also

used to make the donuts on location. Now they are all made at an offsite factory. blah.

[JVS]

3. Blasphemy!

I declare a fatwah against them!

[Sebastian Doyle]

4. Dunkin Donuts: Owned By Mitt Romney and Poppy Bush

Dunkin' Donuts, along with Baskin-Robbins, is owned by Dunkin' Brands Inc. (previously Allied Domecq Quick Service Restaurants, a part of Allied Domecq). Dunkin' Brands used to own the Togo's chain, but sold this in late 2007 to a private equity firm. Dunkin' Brands was owned by French beverage company, Pernod Ricard S.A. after it purchased Allied Domecq. They reached an agreement in December 2005 to sell the brand to a consortium of three private equity firms, Bain Capital Partners, the Carlyle Group and Thomas H. Lee Partners.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunkin%27_Donuts

Not a big fan of Starfucks either, but even the WalMart of the coffee industry is slightly better than the Bush Crime Family.

[edhopper]

5. Starbucks provides health care

for it's employees. Hardly the Walmart of coffee.

[Chan790]

6. As an employee of Starbucks...

they're a terrible employer. As bad or worse than Walmart. It's all a mirage to give the positive public image that they're a great employer because people want to shop someplace that cares.

I included facts on my first-typing but since I don't leave for another 8 days then I'm barred by non-disclosure for 6 months...I removed them. I've got them set aside for the day I can shout them to the world.

[edhopper]

11. I'll be waiting to read that.

[blueraven95]

16. really? I'm surprised

everyone I know who has worked at a starbucks really, really liked it. Those who've left have said they miss it.


It's not a job I would want to to, but I mostly haven't heard bad things about it. I look forward to your info.

[Chan790]

19. It was great when I started...

over time things have gotten worse and worse. It's probably in no small part due to the explosive growth of the company requiring influxes of money from people that have profits rather than the Starbucks way as their main concern and greater overhead from ever-increasing amounts of useless middle-management. It's a never ending cycle of cutting labor and expenses which drives down customer and employee satisfaction which necessitates cutting labor and expenses to stay ahead of the curve. We're no longer a coffee company, we're a company whose profits are driven by partnerships with other companies (Yum! Brands, Pepsi, Apple, Good Magazine, Saeco, Bodum, Hershey, XM, etc.) and being a "lifestyle" brand. I'm just waiting for the Starbucks-edition Prius. That's when as a company I'll know we shat the proverbial bed.

If I had to group all my complaints I can't vocalize now under one heading, it's this:

As profit margins have fallen due to degradation of our brand, our company has consistently asked those of us who are career-track FT store-workers to do more with less and give ever more back including shrinking market wages (We used to average 170% of minimum wage, we now average 115% of minimum wage) and ever worse and more expensive insurance because they can't tell the investors to piss off since they now own the company.

Frankly, the best thing they could do is close 50% of the stores, refocus as a smaller company, boost wages for the smaller number of employees and send the venture capitalist vampires and strategic partners out the door. It's all about the coffee and the people, dumbasses. Kill the non-related retail, ditch the warming oven products, stop trying to reinvent the wheel, bring back real espresso machines, kill the "new flavors" pipeline, stop coming out with lame crap like Vivanno, Sorbetto and Frappucino; just sell the best coffee and latte beverages in the industry to the exclusion of all other crap. Pay your barista's best-in-industry wages and stop treating them like fast-food workers and we might stop leaving in droves. We're the lifeblood of your company and we're trained skilled talent, not burger-flippin' monkeys.

[blueraven95]

26. I understand where you are coming from.

I do agree that the grew too much way too fast.

[elleng]

21. bush and how many others?

these are large consortiums.

Suit yerself!

[geomon666]

7. It was a sad day when Krispy Kreme moved out of the neighborhood.

I miss them so. :(

[Jamastiene]

12. I looove Krispy Kreme.

I hope they can recover from their financial woes and continue to exist.

[Bucky]

24. Yuck. I tried 'em a few times. That hard shell of sugar coating over stale donut bread...

I don't care if they support the BFEE, I simply prefer Dunkin' Donuts. Of course Shipley's is way better than Dunkin's, but they don't have as many close-by stores.


Find a Shipley's Donuts near you ===> http://www.shipleydonuts.ws/locations.html

[geomon666]

25. Are you sure you bought em direct from the assembly line?

That store bought crap is exactly that, crap. Doughnuts been sitting there for a week. You gotta buy em off the line.

[Jamastiene]

32. Exactly.

The ones you buy in the grocery stores suck too. The ones they just made are scrumptious.

[Lex]

8. If you like burned-to-hell, over-roasted beans, you can't beat Starbucks.

nt

[astral]

9. Well, you know, at least Dunkin' Donuts is actually GOOD coffee!

Roasted RIGHT, ya know what I mean?

[edhopper]

10. Not the point

I have no problem with people who just don't like the taste of Starbucks. Each to his own. It's the psuedo-anti-elitism I find bothersome.

[graywarrior]

13. Plus Starbucks has soymilk instead of that streaming-diarrhea causing crap

cream DD pumps into your cup.

[DS1]

14. I can't taste the coffee in D&D coffee, it's just this weird flavor

that comes in a brown liquid delivery system. It's weird how they took all the coffee flavor out

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

18. Yeah -- it tastes like nothing

[sakabatou]

15. You see, this is why I make my own coffee at home.

[Mojambo]

17. Coffee is gross.

Never had a taste for it.

I will continue to hate Starbucks for their stupid fancy sizing terminology though.

Fucking Venti whatever.

Small, medium, large.

It's not complicated.

[elleng]

20. Yes, but

there's ICE CREAM at DD! AND pizzza! and I prefer DD's pastries, most of the time! Meet ya in between, at the corner store!

[elleng]

22. Hate to hear this squabbling

among my dear friends, about my 'favorite' hangouts. Would go out for one something now, but can't afford it!

[harmonicon]

23. Dunkin Donuts coffee is a hell of a lot better though.

[Xipe Totec]

27. I buy Dunkin Donuts coffee by the pound

it's cheaper that way, and just as good or better.

[DS1]

31. Their coffee sold by the pound is good, but I don't know what they sell by the cup

because it tastes like shite!

[FloridaJudy]

28. My local Jiffy Mart

Has diy fancy coffee - you just have to add the steamed milk and flavorings yourself. It's not bad, and only 49 cents if you bring your own mug. And half the time they let me refill mine for free.

$tarbuck$ and Dunkin can go hang.

[rug]

29. Chock Full o' Nuts is betther than both of them.

http://www.chockfullonuts.com/HearChockRock/

[elleng]

30. is that Heavenly Coffee!

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