Some Assembly Required reports that when he went into the Medford Square Dunkin' Donuts for some coffee on Saturday, he passed by a woman standing outside, seeming to give a coffee order on her cell phone. And when he got in line, he stood behind a woman repeating back the same order on her phone:
Woburn Police are looking for a guy who apparently made a pit stop at a Dunkin' Donuts before robbing a nearby bank.
Police say the guy wrote out his demand note - for $100 bills - on a Dunkin' Donuts napkin before holding up the TD Bank branch at 280 Montvale Ave. around 10:50 a.m. on May 12. They say he may have been in the Dunkin' Donuts down Montvale before the robbery.
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There's no sadder sight for a Dunk's coffee drinker: Empty pots. Seen at the Dunkin' Donuts on Hyde Park Avenue in Hyde Park this afternoon.
Dana Reichman reports that not only is the Squirrel Hill outlet kosher, it has a fireplace. Here, take a look.
They take pictures of the local Dunkin' Donuts (Here are some New Englanders who stopped on their way to the 2006 World Cup to pose in front of a Dunk's in Gelsenkirchen, Germany).
Sometimes, they even take photos of Dunkin' Donuts knock-offs.
Blue Mass. Group alerts us that the owners of Dunkin' Donuts franchises in Massachusetts have started a political action committee, with the Godawful acronym DDFO MassPac (what, HolePac and SaturatedFatPac were taken?):
But on the flip side, Dunkin' Donuts shops have some very good surveillance cameras.
Channel 4 reports the region's critical donut supply dipped by 0.0001% this morning when somebody in an SUV drove through the front of a Dunkin' Donuts on Chestnut Street in Needham
Dunkin' Donuts yesterday filed a federal lawsuit against Panagiotis Vorvis, who owned three Dunkin' franchises in the Back Bay, alleging his wife's Brighton cafe competes with the chain's outlets there.
In the suit, filed in US District Court in Boston, Dunkin' Donuts seeks to have the Dunkin' Donuts name stripped from Vorvis's three shops (53 and 283 Huntington Ave. and 153 Mass. Ave.), which it says he continues to operate even though it terminated his franchise agreements because of Cafe 57 and Grille in Brighton, owned by his wife Eleftheria.
I'm slowly building a database and maps of 24-hour businesses in the Boston area. I'm sadly lacking in the Dunk's department, though, so would be grateful for locations of them, either here or via that last link.
One note on the first link: One of the things I need to figure out is why that page is so slow and what to do about it. For some reason, the page insists on loading the ads first before loading the Google map, which, as you'll see if you click, is annoying.
Thanks!
Kelly shows off her newest but already favorite Christmas-tree ornament.
District C-6 reports the Dunkin' Donuts, 510 Southampton St. was held up around 11 p.m. on Nov. 20 by a guy who said "Open the register. I have a gun and I will shoot you. Relax and open the register."
Yes, Dunkin' Donuts, at the Mass. Innovation and Technology Exchange's Interactive Awards last night - one for a site that let you create your own proposed donut. Wade Roush reports.
Only in Massachusetts: The Globe reports Citizens Bank has opened a branch inside a Dunkin' Donuts in Bellingham.
Ed Coppinger reports:
It seems 3 days a week for the last month or so there has been a candidate for Mayor or Boston City Council shaking hands at one of the Parkway’s hot-spots. Now I can add Candidate for U.S. Senate to that list.
Coppinger posts a photo of Steve Pagliuca looking admiringly at young ward Matt O'Malley, who used to be a regular at Roche Bros. during his runs for city council.
The Globe (and BBC and Advertising Age, and many more) report the resignation (news release here) of Dunkin's president and chief brand officer, William K
Scott Kirsner wonders about that and whether Dunk's franchisees should at least put out recycling bins to handle all the extra material.
Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly has the details on a case involving a toddler who allegedly got permanent chin and neck scars from a too hot hash brown at a Quincy Dunkin' Donuts.
The paper quoted one lawyer not involved in the case who said the parents could have difficulty with the jury, because who feeds their kid Dunkin' Donuts hash browns for breakfast in the drive-thru lane?
On WBUR's Public Radio Kitchen, Susan McGrory notes the full-frontal assault launched in another Dunkin' Donuts hotbed - Manhattan - by Canadian donut powerhouse Tim Hortons.
Could it happen here? The Canadians are a lot closer than you might think. Take a look at the map below, which shows Tim Hortons outlets in the Providence area. There are even a few just over the border. Unlike Krispy Kreme, Tim Hortons seems a more worthy matchup for our Dunk's - they have a similar menu. If they did try to move into DD's ancestral homeland, though, who would get hurt more? Dunkin' Donuts or Honey Dew Donuts?
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