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.
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Read the full article: Dunkin’ Donuts Newport Folk Festival to be Broadcast to Worldwide … – Top40-Charts.com
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
My business partner sent me a link this morning to this comic strip. I got a good chuckle out of it and I thought the Dunkin’ Donuts community might as well.
Source: Penny Arcade
I happened to be poking around on the web this afternoon looking at a few different Dunkin’ Donuts related information pieces and this website about Dunkin’ Donuts sponsoring a Folk Festival popped right out at me.
Here is a link to their website: www.newportfolk.com
From what I can tell this seems to be a pretty cool show. Looking at the 2005 site it’s clear they were able to land some big names. I’ll be interested to see how 2006 goes – maybe I’ll even convince my wife to take a trip out east with me for this show.
I’d love to hear from anyone who’s been to any of the past Folk Festivals.
DunkinDonutsTalk.com would like to publically welcome a new writter to its staff. James Chen joins DunkinDonutsTalk.com as a fellow writter and blogger. He has been a long time Dunkin’ Donuts fan and is eager to share news and stories with you through the eyes of Dunkin’ Donuts.
If you’d like to read more by James, please visit his personal blog at: www.jameschen.blogspot.com.
Good morning DunkinDonutsTalk.com Community-
I wanted to put a message out wishing everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy Holiday season. I’m going to be taking a few days off myself to spend some time with my family and enjoy a season of rest before 2006 kicks off.
The Christmas season is always a really enjoyable one in our household. My wife makes a huge deal out of it and decorates our home, bakes like crazy and we have a number of parties in our home. We have a few traditions ourselves, like watching White Christmas together, reading Luke chapters 1 and 2 before the Christmas meal begins, and of course watching lots and lots of football!
We are always looking for new traditions to integrate into our family, so I would love to hear from you if your family has some cool traditions around the holidays.
Merry Christmas and happy holidays!
Scott
This poem came up in my RSS Reader this morning from a faithful DD lover.
Dear Dunkin’ Donuts, you are my star
You keep me wide awake in class wherever you are, near or far.
I lovingly sip your luscious coffee
And sleep is exorcised like a demon from each deep dark corner of me.
Your aromas make me yearn for more, more and more, down to my core.
I answer your calls and sprint to my temple – your store
Buying more luscious coffee with milk
And spoonfuls of pure sugar white as driven snow, never making me ill -
On the contrary, they fill me
With glee
Your savory donuts, Boston Creme, French Cruller
Allow me to experience titillation on my taste buds, and become fuller.
This was an interesting perspective on a new marketing campaign Dunkin’ Donuts is using. I look at it and find it almost offensive and demeaning to my intelligence. This Dunkin’ Donuts lover went a few steps further…
Dunkin Donuts has gone stupidly new age on us, in an attempt to push their expanded line of Nine Flavors of Coffee. I suppose they?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢re trying to compete with Starbucks, but this is just wrong. My reading is that their new marketing strategy specifically targets young women.
For example: If you love Toasted Almond….You love to flirt and change your mind often. Your carefree nature pushes you to constantly experience new things. Your motto: ?¢‚Ǩ?ìLife is meant to be lived.?¢‚Ǩ¬ù Question is…who?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s coming along for the ride?
Or how about…If you love Chocolate….You enjoy the rich things in life and use your sweet charm to achieve them. Your character is the deepest of all the Flavorology flavors. Your good looks are second only to your smooth personality. You melt hearts with a single glance…and that can lead to messy situations.
I realize this is supposed to be taken as ?¢‚ǨÀúall in fun?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢, but it caters to just about every vacuous feminine stereotype out there. Just turn on that million dollar smile, baby, and the world is your oyster. Be pretty, flirt, it?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s your prerogative to change your mind often…it?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s all good. Go out, melt hearts with your sweet charm, and get ahead in the world. Yecch! I am so disappointed in DD.