Mmmm donuts.
Posted on 07/02/2005 4:39:36 AM PDT by Panerai
A Worcester pastry chef's alleged half-baked impersonation of Dunkin' Donuts has landed him in a ``hole'' lot of trouble.
The coffee-and-cruller colossus is attempting to squash competitor Gourmet Donuts, charging in a federal lawsuit that owner Walid Alnahhas has greedily helped himself to the chain's trademark orange-and-pink color scheme and its internationally recognized logo featuring the drawing of a steaming cup of joe.
Reached yesterday, Alnahhas wasn't eager to bite.
``I have nothing to say,'' he told the Herald.
The complaint, which charges Alnahhas with trademark infringement, also accuses Gourmet Donuts of using an ``identical or substantially indistinguishable'' lettering style to Dunkin' Donuts'.
Alnahhas has been in business since 1990. Canton-based Dunkin' Donuts has been around since 1950 and boasts 4,100 shops in the United States and another 1,800 in 29 other countries. Last year, Dunkin' Donuts took in a sweet $3.6 billion in sales.
On an average day, Dunkin' Donuts claims to sell 30 cups of coffee per second.
``In the more than 40 years since the Dunkin' Donuts system began,'' the suit reads, ``hundreds of millions of consumers have been served in Dunkin' Donuts shops.''
(Excerpt) Read more at news.bostonherald.com ...
Mmmm donuts.
Time to make the donuts.
Dunkin Doughnuts is the best. Their doughnuts beat the heck out of Krispy Krap and their coffee is better than Starbucks (IMO anyway). My only complaint is that their coffee has gotten so expensive in the last 3 years.
After 10:00 PM: Drunkin' Doughnuts
Give me a real bakery shop doughnut every time ...Are there any left , or is everything a CHAIN nowadays ?
I live in the home of Krispy Kreme, and for us here in NC, Krispy Kreme MEANS donuts. I think it is a question of what kind of donuts you prefer, the cake or the good ones made by Krispy Kreme.
As an official old fart, I am almost out of my mind that the puritan peck sniff PC mentality of this country has turned everything into some faux tribute to conformity. Fake Irish, Australian, Canadian (of all things!), Italian, Texan, Chicago, fake pizza, fake bars full of fake cacti, fake dead animals, faux ambiance, 10,000 tv screens (to make your intimate dinning experience more pleasurable) staffed by stupidly grinning twenty and thirty somethings trained to get you in and out in 1/2 an hour.
No smoking laws and ridiculously low BAC driving rules have killed out all the little out of the way bistros, bars taverns, off-season seaside restaurants where one could spend an entire weekend afternoon with pleasant company and still be home and safely locked down before sundown.
There's a phony "Coast of Maine Experience" and a phony "Jersey Shore Experience", a fake "Key West Experience", everything homogenized and refined and boiled down for our benefit so we won't be jarred by not having the same "Olive Garden Experience" in Bangor that you'd get in Santa Fe.
That's enough, I've raved even myself into a semi-stupor.
>>Drunkin' Doughnuts
I thought I was the only one who called 'em that! Though my version is Drunken Donuts.
But the local Dunkin Donuts suck.
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