<p>MY DS would ask us to meet him at the airport with a Chick-fil-A sandwich. HE needed his fix! What will he do now that he is staying in that city with no Chick-Fil-A. I am surprised he didnt consider opening a franchise!</p>
<p>Krispy Kreme Doughnuts - yes, whatever happened to them? I heard that Starbucks tried to make a run at Dunkin too. They had an informal arrangement not to go into each others’ turf that expired a few years ago. Boston used to have the Au Bon Pain chain and they were all over the place. They went downhill and closed a lot of shops but there’s still one in the Burlington Mall so they are still around. I see Dunkin Donuts at many of the old Au Bon Pain locations in downtown Boston.</p>
<p>The amazing thing about Dunkin is that they don’t have to offer free WiFi to get tons of customers. The only reason I will go into a Starbucks is to use their free WiFi - though I don’t need to do that anymore since I got a MiFi.</p>
<p>We have two DD’s in a town of 5,000. The economics of this escape me entirely. The nearest Starbucks is twenty miles. That’s a shame, as I have a wallet-full of Starbucks gift cards … and given a choice I’d never drink DD coffee again. “No Sir you can’t fix your own coffee. Just tell us how you like it and we’ll put the sugar and creamer in.” Even Waffle House lets customers add what they like to the coffee.</p>
<p>re: What happened to Krispy Kreme. I think word got out on how much fat and calories were in their product.</p>
<p>I don’t understand the appeal of Dunkin’ Donuts any more than I understand the appeal of Chick Fil A. The last time I had any interest in DD was in the 70s in college and they filled the need for late night munchies.</p>
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<p>You say that like it is a bad thing…I see it as an opportunity for a ROAD TRIP!!! 
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<p>KKD is still around. It looks like their stock high was about $50/share in 2003. They plummeted in 2004 and bottomed to around $1 in 2009. They’re up about 600% since then.</p>
<p>Fat isn’t necessarily bad.</p>
<p>Dunkin Donuts makes what I call good blue collar coffee - moderately sweet with a lot of creme. Nothing fancy. The coffee is generally consistent from store to store. In the old days we had coffee from McDonalds and Burger King and their coffee was truly awful. Dunkin Donuts only had to provide something more consistent that tasted better and they did that.</p>
<p>Krispy Kreme lost its cachet when it became too available and it was really just a one item store. Just how many Krispy Kreme donuts can anyone eat on a regular basis. Then they started getting smaller and smaller and filled with more and more air.</p>
<p>Went to Chick Fil A, looked at the menu and decided that I didn’t want to spend $4.00 to try out a sandwich. Seems like a pricey place for your typical burgers and chicken fare.</p>
<p>It’s because they lose so much money by being closed on Sunday, BCEagle. Lol</p>
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<p>Donuts are high sugar and high (possibly hydrogenated) fat. Doesn’t sound too healthy for any diet ideology.</p>
<p>Chick-Fil-A closes on Sundays so that the employees may attend a place of worship, if they want to.</p>
<p>I search for Wawas when I drive down to Atl each year. They make for great rest stop - good food (and coffee for my husband) and clean bathrooms. Everything can get done while you’re gassing up the car!</p>
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<p>I just had a look at the Dunkin Donuts and they have log sugar donuts. Their typical donut has about as much sugar as an apple.</p>
<p>But my statement still stands: fat isn’t necessarily bad.</p>
<p>Dunkin Donuts isn’t about the donuts. It’s about the coffee.</p>
<p>(And about the munchkins).</p>
<p>I think that it’s about the coffee and breakfast. When I’ve waited in line, the things that sell (to students that I’ve observed), is coffee (hot or cold), and breakfast items excluding donuts. Lots of students want a hot breakfast and Dunkin Donuts does a reasonably good job at that. I don’t see a lot of people buying donuts and sometimes they throw out quite a bit of their inventory at the end of the day. I think that their muffins sell better than their donuts. I think that most of the donuts get sold for meetings in dozen-boxes.</p>
<p>OT but of interest to the DD fans among us: our local DD displays the calorie count of the baked goods under each item. Puts a real damper on ordering, believe me. Most calorific is, I think, the coffee cake muffin for 600-plus. The “low-fat” blueberry muffin is 450 - I haven’t ordered one since they started displaying the calorie counts because I can’t feel virtuous for that many calories. <a href=“And%20about%20the%20munchkins”>quote</a>.
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The munchkins go for about 50-60 calories each. Much better, but who ever heard of having one munchkin? (Or two.)</p>
<p>I like donuts. I don’t eat them as often as I used to in Dallas where there were fantastic independent donut shops about every 6 blocks, but Dunkin is growing on me. I don’t drink coffee, but I like their iced tea and their breakfast egg sandwiches, too. Our Dunkin gets VERY crowded.</p>
<p>Donuts are obviously not health food, but a glazed Krispy Kreme donut has only 200 calories and a Dunkin Donut one has 230. That’s a lot less than a typical bagel which clocks in a 300 while a DD blueberry muffin has 500 calories. One of the plusses of Mayor Bloomberg’s requirement that fast food establishments post calories, is becoming aware of what’s actually fattening. :)</p>
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<p>I’m of the opinion that if you’re going to indulge in donuts and other such goodies, you may as well fully embrace the experience without worrying about the negatives such as high calories. </p>
<p>That is, provided you don’t do it on a routine every day basis. </p>
<p>Granted, I didn’t inherit my father’s sweet tooth…but I embrace that philosophy every time I chow down on salty/savory “junk food” such as a bucket of fried chicken, hamburgers, or if I can get it…a nice slab of chicken fried steak.</p>