Posted on 10/04/2015 3:10:46 AM PDT by WhiskeyX
Looks like America will run a little less on Dunkin’.
Dunkin’ Brands, the parent company of Dunkin’ Donuts and the Baskin-Robbins ice cream chain, announced Thursday that one of its franchisees it will be shutting 100 stores across the country in the next 15 months, reports Forbes.
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Dunkin’ said a spike in the cost of eggs due to the recent avian flu outbreak in the U.S. was a reason along with concerns with the rise in minimum wage laws in cities across the country. Last month, New York became the first state to raise the minimum wage for fast-food workers to $15 an hour.
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But then again the one DD I used to frequent in MD to buy DD coffee beans before they started selling them in the grocery store and would occasionally buy donuts or muffins from this DD franchise, but I stopped going after the franchise was bought out by an Indian family.
For one thing, the service went way down hill – it became very slow and really rather rude and they were often out of most of the more popular donuts no matter the time if day and often what they had left looked like it was yesterday’s leftovers. Another reason I stopped going was that the place started smelling of such bad and rank BO that it overpowered the smell of the donuts. And another reason was that none of them working the counter spoke much if any English. When ordering donuts, I’d have to point to the shelf and then after she pointed to one type of donut, I’d slowly say “no – two over and one down from that one” using hand gestures to try to get her to understand.
I was very happy when a Krispy Kreme Donut shop opened nearby.
If broccholi and carrot sticks were in so much demand, millions of kids wouldn’t be garbage- canning all of MichelleO’s “healthy school lunches” From coast to coast. (Besides, there’s enough police to keep donut shops plenty prosperous )
It was a joke, FHC.
Whoa! Never thought of that. Kinda similar end results. Brullee top. Gotta try that.
Baskin Robins screwed over hundreds of franchisees decades ago by simply refusing to renew their franchise license for no reason other than the company wanted less stores. Why anyone would get in bed with this company is beyond me.
Ok great! thanks
1 franchisee has 100 stores to close? Wow
While we’re on the subject of donuts, we have a new shop in town....Duck Donuts.
The original shop is located at Duck, NC. that’s on the Outer Banks.
Apparently people drive hundreds of miles for their donuts.
They cook them to order, cake style.
You always get them hot. Famous for their Maple Bacon donuts.
I’m only a few miles from the new store but am afraid to try them.
Could be beyond habit forming. ;-0
They are also the one's that don't believe in the 2nd Amendment to the US Constitution...in other words, they don't want my business because I carry a gun that they most likely will never see or know about.
So, I keep my gun...Panera can keep their Anti-gun crap and their fake ass organic crap..
I will refuse to do business with any business that posts a sign on the door, telling me that I am a second-class citizen, just because I'm a 2nd Amendment citizen.
A drop in the bucket, I know.
It may not be a very big drop, but it's one more drop that will eventually fill the bucket and these damned activist businesses will see it dumped on their heads, sooner or later.
Some of the stores they are closing are in gas stations, like the Speedway stations (former Hess stations which had DD franchises in them.). DD are opening stores here...
Donuts are over priced, I can go to Walmart and get a better one for .58 cents. If I felt the need for one. Better yet I can bake my own muffins and freeze them to eat 1 at a time over time.
Those boxes can be tricky to assemble though.
Too much competition
The Panera here doesn’t have a no guns allowed. I go in with my weapon. If it is conceal, how would they know you have it.
I’ve never really understood Dunkin’ Donuts. It’s all cake donuts with sprinkles or so it’s seemed to me. Apparently their coffee is decent but I’m not a big coffee drinker. I drink coffee when I’m cold, to warm up. I grew up with Krispy Kreme, that’s what my expectation of a basic doughnut is based upon, and that’s what I get when I want one.
That’s what I do. I split them in half and grill them in butter. I then get out the RediWhip and enjoy them with whipped cream, and sometimes even a little peanut butter, with a knife and fork. And with a good cuppa coffee, of course.
And here in Pennsyltucky around Shrove Tuesday, or Fastnacht Day, I do that with the Fastnachts. (Pennsylvania Dutch square donuts without holes).
:-) ‘’Whoa’’ is about right. They’re delish.
I have no idea if it's a local thing or not, but the two that I'm aware of in the Alabama-Georgia area I shop have signs.
Concealed or not, to hell with them.
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