Talk:Dunkin' Donuts/Archive 1

From Talk:Coolatta
I plan on taking one soon from one I make at work, I am pretty sure that is ok. Sgcxf949 03:29, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Added photo of a strawberry coolatta. Geoff (talk) 17:10, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

What's in it?
In the coffee coolatta, is it just regular coffee and slush or is there something else added?

Thatsinteresting 01:45, 16 May 2007 (UTC) ==

Photo
I plan on taking one soon from one I make at work, I am pretty sure that is ok. Sgcxf949 03:29, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Added photo of a strawberry coolatta. Geoff (talk) 17:10, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

What's in it?
In the coffee coolatta, is it just regular coffee and slush or is there something else added?

Thatsinteresting 01:45, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

Promotions Section
I removed this, this was nothing but an attempt to advertise current promotions on the wikipeida, which is NOT an ad, it is about facts 63.26.210.185 (talk) 02:01, 8 July 2008 (UTC)eric

Frosting
Why is it that the frosting on Dunkin Donuts donuts melts when it stays in contact with anything (like the box the dozen comes in)? Donutz 23:25, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

That, my friend, is the question of all questions. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.165.37.72 (talk • contribs) 07:11, 21 November 2005 (UTC)

The frosting on the donuts at my store seems pretty solid. The only case where we have sticky frosting is if the donuts were just frosted and not given enough time to solidify and cool down. - Stoph 20:42, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

Dunkies?
Where is Dunkin Donuts called "Dunkies"? Kafziel 19:24, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

Seems to be some kind of Boston-area slang; most of the pages I found with a google search (which wasn't many) were from that area. Still, this page makes it clear that it's not even a universally-accepted nickname in that area. Why list it as an alternative name right in the first sentence of this article? It doesn't appear to have any more acceptance than "Dunkin" or "DD". Kafziel 19:33, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

I'm from right around the Boston area, and if anything, people call it Dunk's, but more often than not, it's Dunkin' Donuts. 71.243.15.245 05:13, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

I'm from Boston, and everyone I know calls it Dunkie's, exclusively. Doesn't make it encyclopedic, though!  Doc Sigma  (wait, what?)  18:18, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

I'm from the Boston area as well. I have also heard many people call it Dunkie's. Zomic_13 05:04, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

I'm from around Boston. People call it 'Dunks' but damnit, I call it Dunkin Donuts. And so does most everyone else

On the Cape it's Dunkies, or the slightly less often heard "Dirty Dunks". I honestly can't remember the last time I heard someone call it by its full name. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.19.26.248 (talk) 12:17, 11 September 2010 (UTC)

Why are the people workig in Dunkin Donuts always from India?
Guanaco152003 12:25, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

I work at Dunkin' Donuts, and I can say that most peope who work at the stores are either high schoolers, middlg eaged woman, or Brazilians. 71.243.15.245 05:12, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

Why is this even a topic here? This isn't even relevant, and is borderline offensive. Dasai Montale (talk) 02:21, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

Guanaco-

Most of the Dunkin outlets in your area are near the Interstates, so most of those shops will be owned/operated by Asians, and most of those Asians will be from India, and most of the Indian proprietors will be named "Patel"...

No offense intended, Dasai, but that is a fact of life in the US.

As long as the food is good, who cares? Normfromga (talk) 16:21, 12 March 2010 (UTC)

Yes, it's all Anglo high schoolers, 50-something women named Pat who love scratch tickets and Marlboro Ultralite 100's, and Brasilatas. I have never once seen an Indian (or Pakistani) working at one, and I probably have literally ten franchises within a mile of my house. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.19.26.248 (talk) 12:20, 11 September 2010 (UTC)

what happened to the plain dunkin donuts with the handle?
what happened to the plain dunkin donuts with the handle?

Haven't been able to find any it seems for a couple years. These are the donuts that presumably you can dunk if your coffee cup is big enough.

Next best thing is a plain kruller I suppose. But I liked the original round one with a handle. Any ideas if they were just discontinued?


 * Unfortunately, those were discontinued several years ago. I miss them too. :( &mdash;chair lunch dinner&trade; talk 05:36, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

Those donuts are still available at certain stores, since most stores are franchises, it is up to the individual owner to decide which donuts are sold.

Café Dunkin’ Donuts
Dunkin Donuts operates a store they call Café Dunkin’ Donuts in Brasil. It should be mentioned. http://www.varejista.com.br/sucesso/case_dunkin/2.jpg

"o Café Dunkin’ Donuts, que oferece sanduíches, saladas, gratinados e massas, além do tradicional cardápio das lojas da rede."

Translation: "Offers sandwhiches, salads, pastas apart from the traditional menu items"

Jamesinclair 22:03, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

What?
I just, I don't know what to say: DD cup on eBay -- MyrddinEmrys 07:43, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

Changes in DD
I am not sure what format should be used for adding the following information to the DD article. Certainly, these points are important to accurately document DD as it is today. Suggestions are welcome.

1. In the 1980s, the company moved away from having all donuts cooked on the premises by adding smaller stores that bring in doughnuts and baked goods from a central point. 2. The company website does not include doughnuts among its "Featured Prroducts." 3. The original "dunkin donut' variety featured a bump on the edge of the plain donut which, in one's imagination at least, could act as a handle to dunk the doughnut. With increasing automation of the process, the dunkin handle was abandoned and replaced with the "old fashioned" variety sans handle. 4.  Many commercials featuring "Fred the Baker" touted the company's promise of fresh doughnuts every six hours. With the advent of stores without baking facilities, DD discontinued its fresh every six hour requirement.

Lastly, some mention should be made of DD's competing chain in it early years, Mr. Donut shops, which, legend has it, were started by a former partner of the founder, William Rosenberg. CapeCodBob 17:23, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

I'd like to see more info about the removal of transfats and exactly which products it applies too. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.14.151.221 (talk) 14:42, 11 March 2010 (UTC)

If it followed the lead of its local competitor, Krispy Kreme, it reduced the transfat to less than 0.5 grams per item, after which the Feds allow them to round down to "zero" in their advertising.

Of course, if you eat more than one, they could add up... Normfromga (talk) 16:04, 12 March 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Normfromga (talk • contribs) 15:15, 12 March 2010 (UTC)

Dunkin'/Baskin Robbins
There are stores in many other areas that have a Baskin Robbins. I think that reference to Chicagoland should be omitted.

Locations
on the dunkin' donuts website, it says that there are approximately 4,800 Dunkin' Donuts locations in 36 states – could we put together a list of exactly which states those are? —lensovet–talk – 01:23, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
 * No mention of any of the international shops? Dodge 02:23, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
 * I added the European listings that I found on a German website. Two of the Dunkin' Donuts I visited in Berlin were also Internet Cafe's. Mdaigle 09:40, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

What happened to their Dunkin' Donuts shops in the UK: they've all disappeared? Does anyone know why?

New Advertising Campaign
Hey guys! I created a Fritalian article after seeing Dunkin's new advertising campaign. Should we leave that article as a stand alone article or add it to the Dunkin Donuts page?

Thanks! Yeyewa 04:21, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

Coolattas
I am not the best wikier so I will let someone else edit this in. I attempted to make a page about Coolattas. I should be linked to this page and possably put under products. I will try to add more to it later. Sgcxf949 03:37, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

Merge from Fritalian
Please merge relevant content, if any, from [ Fritalian] per Articles for deletion/Fritalian. (If there is nothing to merge, just leave it as a redirect.) Thanks. —Quarl (talk) 2007-03-05 10:53Z 

hello coppers i need help with my schoool report i need the aplliction info for the person who started this darn thing

John Goodman as voice of Dunkin donuts. . . .I believe this is false. . . I have looked all over and can't seem to find the name of the guy. I hear you, it sounds JUST like John Goodman, but there's a little something different. I saw a show on the history channel I believe and the narrator is the same as the guy that used to do Dunkin Hines commercials.

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Dunking
There's no mention of dunking here, or in the main Doughnut article. Shouldn't there be some mention that the name "Dunkin'" refers to the practice of dunking the donut in... honestly, I don't know if it was coffee, milk, or whatever that was the original inspiration. One doesn't actually see anyone dunking donuts all that often, but that surely is where the name comes from. Rhsatrhs 15:25, 25 June 2007 (UTC)


 * From what I understand, you would dunk plane (cake) donuts in coffee. Few people dew this now since donuts are likely sweeter and lighter than they used to be.   Black Harry  (Highlights|Contribs) 15:52, 25 June 2007 (UTC)


 * Actually, A Dunkin' Donut was a specific type of plain cake donut that had a "handle". Think of a capital "Q" shaped donut with a small bump on one side. The handle was to use so that you could dunk the donut and not get your fingers wet or burn them on the hot coffee. I am not making this up.


 * Jerem43 18:19, 25 June 2007 (UTC)


 * Now that you mention it, I remember once a few months ago seeing them for sale at a Dunkies in the city. Someone told me almost exctly what you just said, but I forgot all about it.   Black Harry  (Highlights|Contribs) 19:34, 25 June 2007 (UTC)


 * There's still cultural precedent for donut dunking. Little Debbie markets a brand of cake donut-styled treats called 'Dunkin Stix' or something similar. The original dunking beverage of choice WAS indeed coffee, though I can't find a source to prove this. Dasai Montale (talk) 02:34, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

Geographical Distribution?
Where are most of the DD stores? What was the pattern of Growth, after beginning in MA? I think of it as more a Northeast/Midwest chain and mostly in the US; I wonder if that's correct.

Merge proposal
Hardly notable enough to deserve its own article, does Sip, Scratch, Score! have enough notability to be merged with this article? Gimboid13 06:15, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

No - It is too verbose and will take up too much space in the article. Jerem43 07:08, 23 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Actually the information for the game should probably be merged and the questions and answers removed entirely as they are not encyclopedic.--Christopher Allen Tanner, CCC 02:28, 17 September 2007 (UTC)


 * Comment: Sip, Scratch, Score! is entirely trivial and should just be a redirect. Mention could be made of the competition in the main article (although how many retailers don't promote their products???) but a full list of Q&A is deeply unencyclopedic.  Pyrop e  13:29, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

Sip, Scratch, Score! was hardly a legendary promotion, if memory serves. It doesn't even serve as worth mentioning at all, and in my opinion, the Sip, Scratch, Score! article should be deleted in it's entirety. It's hardly informative, and consists of half of a paragraph, and several trivia questions. Very little point in merging this article. Dasai Montale (talk) 00:40, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

==Vandalism== I really dont know how to correct, but there are a lot of mistakes and errors by another user. Please someone correct them. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 189.6.106.19 (talk) 01:32, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

Japan
Not included on the list of countries having DD's, but they ARE located on a U.S. Marine Corps Base and an Air Force base in Okinawa. Worth adding to the list or not? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Wakamusha (talk • contribs) 23:33, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

The whole michelle malkin thing...
Allo. So, I came here curious if the whole michelle malkin/dunkin' donuts ad thing was here... (For those who haven't heard, Dunkin' Donuts had an advertisement that featured Rachelle Ray in a paisley scarf. Malkin decided that it supported jihad somehow... The, um... paisley jihadists...) Anyways, under pressure from Malkin and the threat of a boycott, Dunkin' pulled the ad. The incident *was* in the article here, but it was written faaar too non-neutrally to keep. (BLP concerns at the very least; I'd say a lot more than that) Even though I removed it, I still think it's worth including if someone can write it correctly. I suck at writing, so I just removed the whole block to get rid of the 'neo-nazi', 'mentally challenged', etc. stuff. 139.57.100.104 (talk) 15:31, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

going green
Duncan Donuts has an opportunity to start going green. Most customers would appreciate it. It would show that you really care about us and our lives. There could be a recyling bin next to trash on the way out. Let's all write to them to let them know our feelings. If they hear from enough of us...  maybe ...they will do something!!!!!!!! Mary —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.241.20.45 (talk) 12:02, 7 September 2008 (UTC)

A nice thought, but DD does not give a crap about their customers or their employees for that matter. They could easily switch over to paper cups or cups made from recycled materials (the latte cups already are). The recycling bins is a different issue though, stores do not have a separate recyclables dumpster and most do not have the room for one. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.16.92.30 (talk) 15:44, 12 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Actually, they do use paper (not Styrofoam) cups for a small coffee. I don't know why. I find Styrofoam to be too flimsy. Bostoner (talk) 02:08, 27 December 2010 (UTC)

Dunkin Donuts Website
I love Dunkin Donuts, but it's funny the way their website is set up because all they show or talk about is coffee--not donuts. With a name like Dunkin Donuts, they need to at least advertise their namesake product. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Billnkatie90 (talk • contribs) 19:23, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

Ordinarily, most people will visit the site to locate a local outlet, or buy on-line.

More people would want to order coffee (beans) on-line than donuts...

Besides, they typically get good grades on their coffee, comparable to some of the top coffee chains. With the markup on coffee, their would be fools not to push it to the max.

[Our local favorite, Krispy Kreme, couldn't compete in New England against Dunkin, not because of the quality of its donuts, but purely because of the taste of its coffee.]Normfromga (talk) 16:06, 12 March 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Normfromga (talk • contribs) 15:38, 12 March 2010 (UTC)


 * Are you sure it's just because of coffee? Krispy Kreme is very fattening, and New Englanders are overall much thinner and more weight conscious than Southerners. Dunkin Donuts' coffee is only good when it's fresh, which you'll only get when it's very busy. They leave it on a hot plate and pour the dregs of the previous pot into the next pot, making it taste bitter and rancid. In the past few years, it's become almost undrinkable, if you drink coffee black. Bostoner (talk) 02:08, 27 December 2010 (UTC)

Dunkin Donuts expanding its operations
The company announced last week that it is expanding its operations into lodging facilities, airports and sports arenas and that it already opened its first location at Great Wolf Lodge (an indoor water park resort) in North Carolina. I'd like to add all this to the "Corporate Profile" section. What do you think? Yay or nay? Also, if yes, should I list some of the food on its menu too? Rosestiles (talk) 10:41, 19 April 2009 (UTC)Rosestiles

No Dunkin' donuts on the west coast
Do you guys think this is significant? --12.147.121.194 (talk) 02:43, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
 * There used to be one in Santa Ana, California (Harbor & Warner). When did they leave the state?

The Portland, Oregon store does not appear to exist anymore. Dunkin's official Store Locator does not find it. 63.209.235.207 (talk) 20:37, 31 March 2011 (UTC)

Tala' Donuts + Nour'Donuts
Defacement ..... Xb2u7Zjzc32 (talk) 06:26, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

In 31 Countries, but soley in the US?
At the top of the article, it mentions that Dunkin Donuts is established in 31 countries, but toward the bottom, it says that it exists soley in the US. Contradiction? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.77.97.3 (talk) 14:51, 15 January 2010 (UTC)

Lack of Corporate History
I was surprised there's no history on Mr. Dounuts. I found several articles about the history of Dunkin and Mr. Donuts:
 * http://avoidinglife.com/index.php/2004/12/12/a_tale_of_2_donuts
 * http://www.kzwp.com/lyons/dunkin.htm
 * http://www.mister-donut.com/welcome.htm —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.3.112.55 (talk) 20:12, 9 February 2010 (UTC)

Tala?
What is it? There's nothing on the disambig page that is even close to the context of a donut shop. And why is it's absence from the state of California significant? DarkAudit (talk) 20:15, 7 March 2010 (UTC)

Yeah, I couldn't find any on-line definition of a "tala" store, and except on a newspaper site who obviously cribbed from this article without fact-checking, no actual reference to one either. If there is such a thing, please define in the article.

As to the significance of their lack of success in California, or the Western US in general, I would find the reason rather interesting. After all, even if its coffee's superiority over Starbucks' may be questionable, whose chain out there make better donuts? Normfromga (talk) 16:07, 12 March 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Normfromga (talk • contribs) 15:30, 12 March 2010 (UTC)

This "tala" stuff needs to go, it's obviously made up. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.76.35.167 (talk) 05:38, 16 March 2010 (UTC)
 * And so it goes. Reference to "tala" has been removed. DarkAudit (talk) 17:10, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

Revenue
The current revenue is listed at 20 cents. Can somebody find out what that really should be? Daskos99 (talk) 00:50, 11 June 2010 (UTC)


 * Thanks for catching that. The citation states worldwide sales of $5.5 billion in 2008, so I changed the infobox.  Alanraywiki (talk) 01:38, 11 June 2010 (UTC)

wrong global location
the third global location is wrong, i don't know if it means something, but is obviously not a country. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 186.104.80.129 (talk) 00:03, 6 November 2010 (UTC)