I've always enjoyed listening to Dunkin' Donuts CEO Jon Luther speak. He has a down-to-earth attitude that is refreshing and quite rare in corporate America. Despite his corporate success, it turns out that he's hasn't strayed from his Buffalo, NY-roots.
The 62-year-old executive, who is now based in Massachusetts, has rich memories of growing up in the City of Tonawanda and Kenmore and graduating from Kenmore East High School in 1961. "I'm so thankful for my good fortune," Luther said. "And I think some of the reason I've had good fortune is because of the values and things I learned here. You've got to give back to that."
There's always a part of me that stays in Buffalo, so when you have that, you want to have your business here, too, for several reasons. One is Dunkin' Donuts is such a great brand for the city, they deserve that. . . . You can also create employment. . . . You come back and create 25 jobs [per store]. Now, they're not all high-paying jobs. There are kids going to college, you can help go to college, there's kids getting a start in life. And there's three managers' jobs. There will be supervisors here. So hopefully there are a couple of career paths here that might not be here if we didn't come. And I can engineer that because of my loyalty to the city. . . . I can predict one of the managers in one of these stores will one day own their own store, because they get their start here.
How's that for honesty and integrity?
Source: Buffalo News
Dear Mr. Luther:
I am very disappointed in what is happening in Waukegan, Il.
If it is your position to support “illegal aliens” then I would suggest that you take a look at what has happened at Ford Motor Company since Mr. Ford has decided to support gays. The company stock has continued to go down ever since we have began boycotting Ford products, but Mr. Ford doesn’ seem to care about his stockholders.
I really do like Dunkin Donuts and their other products but if you intend to support illegals, I will find other products to buy.
Also, I would recommend to anyone that I know that they should sell all of their Dunkin Donut stock before the price begins to drop as it did at Ford Motor.
Many of us are sick and tired of supporting illegal aliens year after year who are getting benefits that even our poor and disadvantageous cannot get.
I know that President Bush, Ted Kennedy, Mel Martinez, Sen. Nelson and especially big business want all of these illegals here because they know that these whatever these people make here, it is much better than what they make where they came from. Therefore, cutting Americans throat by working cheap and sending BILLIONS OF DOLLARS back to their countries so they can bring in more illegals. Soon, they will outnumber us. It’s all about greed and profit isn’t it?
Boycotting Dunkin products should start very soon.
Marvin Foster