For the sixth year in a row, police officers from Deerfield, Mundelein and approximately 50 police departments in the state will stake out on top of Dunkin’ Donuts rooftops May 9 to raise donations for the 23rd Annual Law Enforcement Torch Run to benefit Special Olympics Illinois. From 5 a.m. to 2 p.m., rain or shine, police officers will stake themselves atop Dunkin’ Donuts stores at locations including 499 Lake-Cook Rd., Deerfield and 722 S. Rt. 83, Mundelein. In 2006’s, police staked out 54 Dunkin’ Donuts rooftops and raised $108,300. Organizers are hoping to top that this year. “Police officers in this state are extremely committed to Special Olympics, participating in various events all year and doing whatever they can to raise money for programs benefiting the athletes and their families,” said Illinois Torch Run Director and Channahon Police Chief Joe Pena. The fund-raiser has grown considerably from its origins in 2003, when 12 departments raised $20,000. Dunkin’ Donuts will donate $10,000 to the Torch Run fund. In addition, everyone who visits a “Cop on Top” store that day and makes a donation to the Torch Run will receive a free donut. Persons who donate at least $20 will receive a Law Enforcement Torch Run travel mug and coupon for free coffee. Other items, such as Torch Run T-shirts and hats, will be sold for varying donations.
DunkinDonutsTalk.com recently added a new feature to the website on our location listings which shows all of the Dunkin Donuts around the US that have free wireless Internet in their location. This new feature is provided by our friends over at AnchorFree. The beauty about these locations is they are confirmed with the owners that free wi-fi is present and not just a sticker on the window like so many other locations.
Check out the location listings page for details.
Columbia has become the third Dunkin’ Donuts franchise in the country to test a new design and menu. The new restaurant opened last week at 1249 Trotwood Ave.
In addition to the typical donuts and baked goods, the Dunkin’ Donuts prototypes sells foods such as espressos, made-to-order sandwiches, chicken biscuits, smoothies and pizzas.
The restaurant is owned by Joe Rando, who also opened a Franklin franchise in August.
As part of its expansion plans, Dunkin’ Donuts plans to open as many as 100 stores in Middle Tennessee and add at least 15,000 nationwide by 2020. The 56-year-old franchise chain is headquartered in Quincy, Mass.
You’ve been asking for the new Dunkin Donuts commercials for a little while now – especially the crazy one with the Karate Mom. Here they are:
Thanks for the great commercials Dunkin Donuts and thank you Google for hosting the video’s
I recently got an email from a friend of mine whom I work with letting me know that DunkinDonutsTalk.com inspired him to create a blog about something he is passionate about – Target. Denis Hiller is the creator of the new passion blog TargetCulture.com. Like myself, Denis is going to focus on what makes Target a great store to shop at and helping to spread the word to Target management about how they can improve to serve us better.
It’s a great blog that I would encourage you to check out. Drop Denis and email or leave him a comment on the site – let him know that you found him through DunkinDonutsTalk.com. Maybe he’ll send you a coupon or two if you do!
I saw a story on Reuters today that was very near and dear to my heart. Apparently Dunkin’ Donuts is revamping many of its stores and the new stores are going to be equipped with wireless Internet. It does not say whether they are free or not, but I’ll be giving them a call and pushing them to go the route of free wireless Internet.
Dunkin’ Donuts plans to model stores in its growing chain on a recently opened location in Euclid, Ohio, that has an all-day menu as well as WiFi capabilities for customers who want to bring along their laptops.
“We are paying attention to environments because we don’t want to alienate those consumers who do want to come in to relax,” Luther said at the Reuters Food Summit in Chicago. “Since we’ve gone into the espresso-based drink business … more and more of our consumers come in in the afternoon to take that 10 minutes out of their day.”
Source: Reuter’s
I caught a funny post today on Woofactor.com in my RSS Blogdigger today. The post had to do with the fact that people who drink iced-coffee get a jolt to their love life – ha!
This is what Savanah Lawless of Woofactor.com had to say:
I always thought beer goggles made you sexier, which just goes to show what I know.According to new research by Dunkin?��Ǩ�Ѣ Donuts, drinking coffee?��Ǩ���even iced?��Ǩ���can give your love life a jolt. Among their findings:
- Two-thirds (66%) of those who drink coffee in a typical week say they are having sex once a week or more. Among those who don?��Ǩ�Ѣt drink any coffee, only 58% are having sex once a week or more.
- More than half of those who drink coffee in a typical week (57%) say they have sex up to six times a week, while among non-coffee drinkers, only 47% are having sex that often.
- For many coffee drinkers, the brew beats the bedroom. Among those who drink coffee, 42% say that coffee is a more important or equally important part of their week than sex.
- Coffee drinkers are more likely to try a variety of ways (i.e. exercising more, vitamins and supplements, even eating oysters) to turbo-charge their love life than non-coffee drinkers (55% vs. 43%).
Something is amiss at Dunkin’ Donuts. The store’s loyal constituents?��Ǩ���cops, firemen, construction workers?��Ǩ���report disturbing sightings of soy milk. The Boston Globe says that the doughnut titan has hired a professional chef?��Ǩ���trained in Europe?��Ǩ���to perfect its new steak, egg, and cheese sandwich, which features “a higher-quality piece of meat and scrambled eggs instead of a fried egg.” Some Chicago-area Dunkin’ outlets are dabbling with wireless Internet, which had previously been the domain of high-end joints like Starbucks. One could be forgiven for thinking that Dunkin’ Donuts, home of the blue-collar masses, purveyor of some of the most frightening fast-food on the planet, was angling for middlebrow respectability.
Dunkin’ Donuts still boasts some gruesome pleasures: “The Great One,” a 24-ounce coffee chalice, and the Double Chocolate Cake Donut, which carries 310 calories and has the texture and density of igneous rock. But over the past five years the chain has sought to burnish its pastries with a glaze of class: Dunkin’ Donuts is reinventing itself as an upstairs-downstairs coffee house. It wants to lure more white-collar customers while tending to its loyal base of proles. As its chief executive officer, Jack Shafer, boasted in 1998, “Our average customer would be as likely to pull up in a BMW or Lexus as they would be to pull up in a pickup truck or on foot.”