Today someone submitted a comment letting me know this story was a hoax. While the story has not yet been confirmed yet, it appears that it may be a hoax.
Dunkin Donuts is a great American brand and I hope that it’s good name is cleared – along with the folks in Crown Point.
Go read the post on snopes.com.
Let me start this post by saying I have not been able to confirm this information fully; however, I’m reading enough things on the Internet today to lead me to believe there is some truth here. I haven’t seen anything on snopes.com yet disproving it either.
Here is what has been posted so far. This appears to be one of the earliest postings on the matter from Craigslist:
****This really did happens guys..my friend’s dad owns a business in CP and the cops came by and gave him a flyer urging him to boycott DD!! It’s NUTS!****
THIS HAPPENED IN CROWN POINT INDIANA.
This has made me so mad that I’m writing to all of you.
One of the building secretaries has a nephew in the Armed Forces. He and a buddy were in town, in uniform, and went into the Crown Point,IN Dunkin Donuts for coffee. The owner waited on them and REFUSED to serve them. His exact words (according to her) were “you are killing my countrymen and I will not serve you”. They asked him to repeat what he said because they couldn’t believe what they’d heard and he repeated it exactly.
The boy’s dad was so enraged that he went in and confronted the owner who admitted that was exactly what he said and he meant it. Dad turned to the people in the restaurant and told them what was going on and NO ONE left.
They contacted the corporate office and were told that a letter reprimanding the owner was sent. BIG DEAL.
Just so you know, this man also owns the Dunkin Donut in Merrillville,IN by K-Mart. I, for one, will never stop at either store again – that includes the Crown Point Baskin-Robbins that is also owned by him!
SPREAD THE WORD IF YOU FEEL THAT THIS IS HORRIBLE!
This could be a bunch of bunk; however, as one who loves Dunkin Donuts, if there is any shred of truth to it, we as the Dunkin Donuts community need to jump all over it and express our disgust to the store owner and to Dunkin Donuts corporate.
Please leave a comment in protest both on this post (for Dunkin Donuts corporate) and for the store owners themselves (on the stores page).
Reminder, I’m not affiliated with Dunkin Donuts, just a lover of the brand and product like all of you.