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Making the world safe for Bostonians, one coffee regulah at a time

By adamg on Wed, 03/30/2011 - 12:46pm

The Boston Business Journal reports Dunkin' Donuts has opened its 3,000th outlet outside the US, in Shanghai. The company is also planning to open 500 Dunk's in India.

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Dunkin' Donuts


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By willisan on Wed, 03/30/2011 - 4:50pm.

And you will get a confused looking DD worker.

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By SwirlyGrrl on Wed, 03/30/2011 - 5:27pm.

IF you can FIND a DD outside of the Northeast.

They want you to think America runs on Dunkin .... but it doesn't.

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By adamg on Wed, 03/30/2011 - 5:34pm.

I forget the name of the street, but the main road from the south to Midway (not a highway, per se, but it's awfully wide) has a Bostonish density of Dunkin' Donuts.

OK, granted, Boston and Chicago are not exactly sea to shining sea, but throw in NYC and you've got a party going on :-)

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By eeka on Wed, 03/30/2011 - 8:49pm.

The slogan "America runs on Dunkins" PISSES ME OFF, since the only West-Coast location is one in Portland. What, the rest of the country isn't America?

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By chicken on Thu, 03/31/2011 - 2:15pm.

I always heard that as "America gets the runs from Dunkin'"

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By Ron Newman on Thu, 03/31/2011 - 3:30pm.

Their Store Locator doesn't show me any DD within 50 miles of that city. (Nor Seattle, Eugene, San Francisco, Sacramento, Santa Cruz, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Los Angeles, Anaheim, or San Diego.)

But there are 14 DD's in Las Vegas.

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By anon on Thu, 03/31/2011 - 3:44pm.

DD at least used to be in Portland. Our church would get the Sunday after-mass coffee&donuts from one of them, probably since it was closest.

As a kid, I thought that DD had the crappiest donuts of anywhere. Glad Portland got rid of it.

I know some people in Boston who prefer DD coffee, but I never heard anyone local say they actually preferred DD donuts to Honeydew, Krispy Kreme, or anywhere else.

Maybe we just go to DD because it's convenient, cheap, and familiar. That's a lot of fatty calories for something that could taste better.

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By John-W on Thu, 03/31/2011 - 7:36pm.

DD donuts do indeed suck. They used to be good, back when each individual location actually baked their 'nuts -- hence "time to make the donuts." My cousin was one of those folks, dragging his ass to the DD on Route 1 in Saugus (by the start of the Fellsway) at three in the morning to crank out donuts for the morning rush. Sure he tells stories of spitting in the batter, but damn the donuts were good.

Now if I'm looking for real donuts I make the trek over to Kane's... and then stop off for a coronary bypass.

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By SwirlyGrrl on Thu, 03/31/2011 - 3:54pm.

I think they entirely removed themselves from the West Coast several years ago - there used to be three or four in Portland, but they all went down at once.

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By Ron Newman on Thu, 03/31/2011 - 3:59pm.

Winchell's occupies the same market niche as Dunkin for Southern California. But they don't appear to be in the Bay Area or the Pacific Northwest.

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By Melissa on Wed, 03/30/2011 - 6:04pm.

lots of different pretty cakes & such. I saw a Dunkin in Seoul in 2009 & was fascinated: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bluesocks78/tags/dunk...

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