[SamAdams76]

Dunkin Donuts has begun to update their stores to adopt a more "Starbucksy" feel. I'm talking cushioned chairs around low tables, Wi-Fi and more glassed-in displays of exotic pastries. Soon will come the $5 fruit drinks and the $8 deli sandwiches (though DD does make on demand some pretty good hot egg/meat sandwiches.)

I've always preferred Dunkin Donuts to Starbucks because it has a more business-like and less-bohemian atmosphere. You can order your coffee drink in two syllables without sounding like a rube. Over at Starbucks, you have to wear sandals, sport a goatee and use five or more syllables to describe your drink in order to be accepted as a member of the cognescenti.

That said, I do have some guilty pleasures over at the Starbucks such as their pumpkin-based lattes.

[Slings and Arrows]

I’ve never been to a Starbuck’s. (No ideology, just not a coffee drinker.) When I go to a Dunkin’ Donuts, all I want is donuts. (And iced tea if I’m eating in.)