Dunkin' Donuts is officially dropping 'Donuts' from brand name

[dpberr]

How times change.  Back in the day, they used to lead with their baked goods.  Hell, the whole company started around the sale of doughnuts, not the coffee.

 

https://money.cnn.com/2018/09/25/news/dunkin-donuts-new-name/index.html

Edited September 25, 2018 by dpberr

[KD in CA]

Last time I stopped there the donuts weren't very good anyway.  Glad they can now fully focus on their model of offering bad coffee and coffee flavored sugar drinks.  

[Fadingpain]

They aren't deleting doughnuts from their product range.

 

They are simply deleting "doughnuts" from their corporate name.

 

So they will be known as Dunkin' from now on I guess.

 

 

[Pine Barrens Mafia]

Once they stopped making the donuts on site, it was all downhill.

 

[Gugny]

Do they sell anything else that one would dunk?

[Augie]

6 minutes ago, Fadingpain said:

They aren't deleting doughnuts from their product range.

 

They are simply deleting "doughnuts" from their corporate name.

 

So they will be known as Dunkin' from now on I guess.

 

 

 

Dunkin’ what? Don’t leave us in suspense like that!!!! Dunkin’ my finger in boiling hot coffee? That’s a lawsuit waiting to happen. 

[ExiledInIllinois]

2 minutes ago, Augie said:

 

Dunkin’ what? Don’t leave us in suspense like that!!!! Dunkin’ my finger in boiling hot coffee? That’s a lawsuit waiting to happen. 

Phyfe?

 

Maybe they can get pretty tables & chairs!

 

Am I showing My elitist tendancy?

[shrader]

24 minutes ago, Augie said:

 

Dunkin’ what? Don’t leave us in suspense like that!!!! Dunkin’ my finger in boiling hot coffee? That’s a lawsuit waiting to happen. 

 

The story says they want to be a "beverage-led company", but how do you dunk a beverage?  The only thing I can think of where you dunk a beverage is one of those car bomb shots.

[snafu]

If you can't make your food look appetizing in a TV commercial, I don't want  to eat there.  This place is the prime example.

 

[WhoTom]

They're temporarily calling themselves "Dunkin' Burgers"

 

#ihob

 

[Augie]

57 minutes ago, snafu said:

If you can't make your food look appetizing in a TV commercial, I don't want  to eat there.  This place is the prime example.

 

 

Good advice! That saves a LOT of disappointment! 

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[RaoulDuke79]

Sounds like a big waste of time and effort. 

[Fr. Jerk]

Why is this a news story? 

[Chef Jim]

All I can say is if they want my business they’re dropping the wrong word. 

 

 

[Saxum]

Maybe the r is silent.  Drunkin'

[Sweats]

Is Dunkin the new hipster term for tea-bagging now?

[row_33]

10 hours ago, The Jerk said:

Why is this a news story? 

 

The only thing in the news based on a smidgen of reality this week

 

 

[dpberr]

15 hours ago, joesixpack said:

Once they stopped making the donuts on site, it was all downhill.

 

Agreed.  I read about the corporate decision to consolidate the baking facilities.  They knew before they made the decision it'd decrease quality and customers would complain but they have a near geographic monopoly on that fast food niche of coffee and doughnuts so they thought customers would get over it. 

 

Considering they are one of the few franchises that never seems to take a downturn in building new locations and are recession proof, you'd have to admit they were right.  

 

 

[Soda Popinski]

Good because they haven't focused on their donuts in decades.   We drive right by the one 2 minutes from our house to go to a place that actually makes donuts.   All they sell at DD is bad coffee and disappointment.