Regular Coffee?
Many people have been emailing us and asking us to put up a feature where people could comment on what really is a Regular Coffee.
The folks on the East Coast are telling us - especially those in the Boston area - that a Regular Coffee contains both cream and sugar. It’s a darker brown in color, but not too dark; there is enough cream there to be seen and tasted. And the sugar does not over power the taste of the coffee, but it just enough to sweeten it.
Now the folks on the West Coast are telling us that a Regular Coffee is simply straight up black - no additives of any kind. If they’re using cream, it’s low fat milk and if they’re using sugar, it’s a sweetener substitute like Splenda; but those people are definatley in the minority.
We haven’t heard much from the Midwest, but from those I have coffee with often, most of them have it black too.
If you’re interested in how I take my coffee, it’s mostly cream and sugar with some Dunkin’ Donuts coffee added. Generally when I’m done doctoring it, it’s whiter than a Chicago snow fall.
Let us know what how you take your coffee and what you believe a regular coffee contains.
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East coast gal - cream & sugar - but not too much of either. Light regular - a little lighter.
I lived in MA for seven years; several of us in the family worked at DD… and a Regular is 2 sugars and 2 squirts of cream.
I’m a hot Hazelnut extra/extra, and I like my iced coffee the same way.
Tall full fat hazelnut latte, that is the only way to go.
In the south a regular coffee is generally taken with milk. Will Dunkin’ Donuts consider a coffee and chicory blend? That’s the preference of many people along the coast lines. And no sugar, not in a regular coffee.
California girl here. Worked in a coffee shop for 4 years, sadly. If someone ordered a “regular coffee,” they would get the “house blend” - if there is more than one choice of coffees, with a teeny bit of room at the top to put their own cream in if they so prefer. Myself, I drink mine black, preferrably from a French press…
In NY a regular coffee is with milk and sugar.
A french press leaves too much tannin in the coffee which will rot your guts out and give you an ulcer.
I wish DD would put all sizes in a card cup like their small size…there is a taste difference to styrofoam…
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From NE Pennsylvania originally, and without a doubt a regular coffee is a coffee with cream and sugar in non-excessive amounts.
In Chicago it’s coffee - Black ….period!
sigh … I worked for a year at a north-of-Boston DD, this is about 23 years ago. across the street from a hockey rink, so we got tons of parents early say & sun monrings (when kids’ hockey ice time was cheapest). the way it works is this — black coffee is black, light coffee is light. sweet coffee is sweet, “no sugar” doesn’t have any sugar in it. if you want what’s in the middle — tan-colored, slightly sweet — you order “regular.” our shop was calibrated so that 2 jiggers of cream was regular and 4 was light, same with spoonfuls of sugar. before “the big one,” we also had 3 sizes of coffee cup, small/regular/large. and we all know a “regular” donut is an Old Fshioned or plain. so a tired mom or dad can sit down and order a regular regular with a regular and get a not-too-light, not-too-sweet, not-too-big coffee with a donut to dunk.
PS I agree, styrofoam cups are just wrong. that’s why I always pushed thermoses, and loved the ceramic mugs we used for in-store coffee.
I think it is black, that is regular coffee.
De caf is de caf and unburnt is best in both areas
Ah yes- the freshly ground just brewed cup with hazlenut and sweetner of choice,
that is the real deal, that is good stuff, seems there is a trend for the love of hazlenut
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My regular coffee is black. Forever black.
The way it is made in South India : Peaberry with a hint of chicory served in small steel glasses (called tumblers). It usually has milk it in.
Besides that, cappuccinno at Lookout Joe’s comes real close, rest is just hot water
In PORTUGAL a regular cofe is small, black, without sugar. like the italian expresso.
come to Portugal & try it.
In Indonesia it’s coffe black and sugar.
If anyone is interested, i have a blog on Indonesians’ Food/Drink/Eat at foodid blogspot com
Here in Melbourne, Australia, a regular coffee is just plain ol’ black coffee with sugar to sweeten, if so desired. We Melbournians love our coffee!!
In and around New York City, it’s definitely non-decaf, with both milk/cream and sugar.
Small regular = 2 cream/2 sugar
Medium regular= 3 cream/3 sugar
large regular= 4 cream/ 4 sugar
and it goes up from there….
I personnally have grown accostumed to the small french vanilla iced coffee triple (6 cream) double (4 sugar). It sure keeps ya goin on the long hauls
Regular here in NYC usually means cream & sugar….me, though, I take mine black.
In Toronto Canada…coffee favourite is ordered a DOUBLE DOUBLE..2 CREAMS 2 SUGARS….and 99% from Tim Hortons
As far as I’m concerned, “Regular” is just a shorter way of saying “Not that ****ing DECAF ****!”
Don’t even THINK of taking that orange pot near my cup!
I take my coffee blazing hot, black, and so strong it disolved the cup it’s in!
If it’s iced, it’s black with sugar, and just as strong!
Hey Dunkin’ Donuts! Would it kill you to offer soy based coffee creamer? Some vegans do drink Dunkin Donuts coffee! How bout a nice vegan donut to dunk in it?! Is that so much to ask for?
My coffee is usually colored black, no cream, but sugar in it (if i get some).
A regular coffee has cream and sugar. It’s a fact, get over it world. It does not matter that one may “regularly” drink coffee black etc. It is regular whereas that is how the majority of people prepared it and thus came to be known as such. I wonder if that means that someone may do a study of today’s coffee preferences and then we will have an old regular and a new regular. Although I think that defies the bogus laws of regularity.
Odd that coffee keeps us regular as well. Does that mean it is a fruit?
cream,suger lots and lots of suger!!!
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Dunkin’ Donuts should put up a “Regional Definitions” sign in each store, that defines what common coffee terms actually mean at those locations. This way when visitors from other regions patronize a store, they will know what they’re actually going to get. “Regular Coffee” might be black, milk and 1 teaspoon sugar, cream and 2 teaspoons sugar, etc. Also, the sizes will be clearly indicated–small is 8oz, medium is 12oz, large is 16oz, etc. This would also be a venue for creating new terms. Afterall, should Starbucks have all the fun?
D&D could publish this with some artistic and humorous flair to liven things up, too.
I absolutely can’t stand it when I order a regular coffee and I get what tastes like 2 heaping tablespoon fulls of sugar! To me, it’s like drinking hot liquified coffee ice cream. So, I found a solution: I order a “regular coffee with half-sugar”. That way, it’s already gotten some sweeteness mixed in when I receive it. From there, I can decide if I need to add a little more sugar.
In my opinion, if the coffee beans used are of high quality and not BURNT (like Starbucks coffee typically is in their stores), it is nice to forgo the sugar and taste the pure coffee bean flavor. Otherwise, some sweetener is needed to take off the “edge”–inferior beans, too much roasting, or overcooked coffee.
Ditto, Mizz Crow. I get nervous when I leave northern New England and find - Egads! A Dunkin Donuts on one side of the highway WITHOUT one across from it on the other side!
Hazelnut coffee is the best!!
Though..sigh..I am sorry to say..I am a Krispy girl myself.
I was just @ a DD yesterday; on a trip to town to do errands. A ‘regular’ coffee. Shoot. I guess the most common definition is one with cream and sugar, both in moderate amounts.
I used to like Starbucks, but not much now; I too think that it just all tastes burnt there, and there’s nothing worse than burnt coffee!
My ex-husband got me addicted to caffeine; when we were dating, we’d stop somewhere after going to a club, and sit for hours on end, talking and drinking coffee. I’ve drunk it ever since. I am very picky about my coffee; my favorite is prepared at home using Gevalia coffee-it’s about my only indulgence due to a very tight budget. Gevalia coffee is the best, IMHO.
Coffee is good served at ANY temperature!!
Dunkin D’s just came back so to speak after a long time gone. The town went on a “K.K” jag for awhile but bad management and horrible coffee is sending them packing. The Regular coffee is fresh, full-strength, with sugar and cream, and a double chocolate doughnut on the side. Welcome back Dunkin’ Donuts, I,ve missed you !
in bahstin, home to DD, a regular means real coffee with real sugar and real cream. you want a decaf or black or any other variation, you can’t say regular. you’ll confuse em.
i grew up in south jersey; a regular coffee meant you didn’t get decaf. here in phoenix, i have to travel an hour round trip to get a DD. but it’s worth the trip.
black. just — black.
I grew up in Portland, OR, where we had Dunkin’ Donuts and then later Starbucks, but I didn’t start drinking coffee until I moved to New York and met my wife, who drinks her coffee “dark & sweet” (tiny tiny amount of cream and 4 sugars).
I worked in a coffee shop for the first few weeks I lived there, and everybody who came in ordered a “regular” coffee, and everybody wanted something different, and every one of them got mad at me when I asked them what they meant.
I’ve since come to understand that, in New York at least, a “regular” coffee is milk and two sugars. The donut shop I frequented would prep for the morning rush by stacking piles of cups upright with two sugars already added. The Dunkin’ Donuts people gave me funny looks when I asked for “only a tiny bit of milk”, and when I got coffee at the bodega near my job and told the guy “just a bit of milk”, he’d tell me “I know what I’m doing” and pour milk until the coffee was khaki-colored. Yech.
I moved back to Portland recently and found my favorite Dunkin’ Donuts is now a Starbucks. Stupid west coast.
Other funny story, though: I would tell people in New York now and again about how I’ve been to the first Starbucks and how weird that was, and they’d always say “Oh, is that downtown?”
For the record: the first Starbucks is in Seattle, and Dunkin’ Donuts is from Rhode Island, not Boston.
am a flight attendant working routes from nyc to anywhere from asia, uk, europe, the west coast, florida, etc….
the coffee regular question has plagued flight attendants since god was a baby.
if i’m feeling especially generous, i’ll ask what the person means by coffee regular. the east coast people are generally the only people that order “coffee regular”.
those that live outside of the nyc metro or chicago or boston or d.c. RARELY order coffee regular unless they are snowbirds that live in florida.
if i’m feeling bitchy and not so generous, i’ll give a coffee regular person coffee w/cream + 2 sugars. if that’s not how they like it, i then roll my eyes and sigh when they say they want it a different way…and then i give them decaf whatever way they want it.
A regular coffee for me has both cream and sugar in it - and lots of it!
A regular coffee for me has a lot of cream and sugar!
Coffee is black for a reason. I’m from the Midwest and have since moved to NYC. I hate when people ask me twice if I really mean black when I say black.
“No cream or sugar?” (looking surprised)
“No…thank you, just black.”
A regular coffee is black, and hopefully not burnt.
having grown up on the West coast, i can say that a regular coffee there is black and unsweetened. having lived in the midwest for years, i can say that regular coffee there is cream and sugar, not too much of either.
If it’s Bean Town DD we are talking about it is called a Regulah and it has two creams and two shugahs. Also the employee needs to be mildly rude saying things like “Next!” or “What Da Yah Want!” Here on the west coast a regular coffee is black and the service is polite (how boring).
Regular is just regular, like it comes out of the pot…. Regular decaf same thing, like it comes out of the decaf pot. Let me doctor it if it needs it…
Regular coffee is brewed coffee (black) with cream and sugar (2+2) added. This is the standard and it is frustrating when the person behind the counter askes (after I’ve requested a Regular coffee), “Cream and sugar?”
Duh
Black coffee is not Regular coffee. Black coffee is Black coffee.
coffee is good
i was once at d.d. and was showing my line of workout clothing to a worker while waiting for my everything bagel with th plain creamcheese toasted,, when the girl became so involved with my portfolio that she burn’t my damm bagel,,what’s up with that!!!!
Nakedmostly.com is a real site with hot clothing but not worth burning my friggin’ bagel over tell me what you think eddie
I was once at d.d. and was showing my line of workout clothing to a worker while waiting for my everything bagel with plain cream cheese toasted,, when the girl became so involved with my portfolio that she burn’t my damm bagel,,what’s up with that!!!!
Nakedmostly.com is a real site with hot clothing but not worth burning my friggin’ bagel over tell me what you think eddie
I was once at d.d. and was showing my line of workout clothing to a worker while waiting for my everything bagel with plain cream cheese toasted,, when the girl became so involved with my portfolio that she burn’t my damm bagel,,what’s up with that!!!!
Nakedmostly.com is a real site with hot clothing but not worth burning my friggin’ bagel over tell me what you think eddie
I always said “regular” when at FL DD and every time they asked if I wanted cream and sugar. Used to drive me up a wall. One day, I was served by a kid from Boston who actually asked if I was from Boston. He knew what I meant and made my coffee to perfection. Now, if only the rest of the world would catch up. I believe (much like Bush) that we should impose our views on others. I believe that DD should make it a policy that if people order regular coffee, they get cream and sugar, no ifs ands or buts. Eventually as DD continues to take over the global coffee empire, people will learn and these problems will cease to exist.
Dave
I grew up in Beantown and everyone in my family always orders a regular coffee from DD. This means a cup of coffee in the standard paper cup and it has 2 sugars and 2 shots of cream! I think DD should make this a standard practice throughout all DD’s!!!
Eddie
After spending 30 years in the North East corner of the US. I have found only in this region of the country or world, does it inhabitants maintain it’s own dialogue for coffee preference. Often coffee is ordered by grunting a few words through an automobile (or caah) window into a small metal box in which a coffee technician would reply (that’ll be a dollah sixty fouah, please drive up).
Here is the preferred method to order you’re coffee when visiting this region.
Black - nothing but coffee
Regular - equal amounts of cream & sugar. brown in color and sweetened only enough to bring out the taste in the coffee, but not mask it.
Xtra, Xtra - Plentiful amounts of cream and sugar. often removing any taste of coffee leaving the drinker on a sugar high rather than caffeine rush.
These are just a few of the ways to order your coffee, but please do not try these out of this region, it may bring undesirable results.
I consider myself a man who is above average, but when it comes to coffee I am just a regular guy.
Now, this a question from NY for Chicago. David Mamet has his characters in his play American Buffalo order “A Boston”–(not a donut, but a style of coffee). What is “A Boston”? Maybe this is a question for Boston too?
Yes regular coffee should have some cream and some sugar in it. Just straight black coffee is considered black coffee, whereas very sweat coffee is one of those expensive starbucks type coffee.
Regular coffee is regular only by virtue of the fact that it is not a flavored coffee. What makes it regular has nothing to do with its sugar or cream content. Those are incidental factors, not essential.
regular? even at DDs in Chicago (at least most places) it is cream and sugar. unfortunately, if you ask for a regular coffee somewhere else, they just roll their eyes
I made the misstake of ordering a “Medium Regular” at a DD in Detroit on my way back to Boston. I was in a hurry to get to the airport and didn’t take a sip until I was already out of the parking lot….DAMN! Black coffee! I was so PO’d until my friend explained the regional difference.
I’m from Jersey and a regular is cream & sugar. Tell those Californians that a REGULAR coffee is not black…if it’s just coffee in a cup then it’s just BLACK!!! HELLO!!!!
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back again to D.D. the girl say’s how do want your coffee? I say regular .. She say’s how about hot and sweet like your clothes site (Nakedmostly.com) Give me a break and the coffee please “what’s everybody a critic these day’s? I thought coffee to go was ” TO GO PEOPLE” Next time im in the drive through…. eddie
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REGULAR COFFE HAS NO CREAM OR SUGAR ADDED.
Lived my whole life in New Hampshire–just a an hour away from the original store in Randolph. Sadly now in San Diego where there is no Dunkin Donuts for 500 miles. Regular was always light cream–(not half&half) & sugar. Not too much of either. Knew a lot that worked @ DD–I agree…2 sugars and 2 squirts of light cream.
The coffee shops in California seem pretentious, the coffee is way too strong and there’s hardly any fun in them. I pine away for the days of going into a Dunkins sittin down at the counter and chatting with real down-to-earth people. The hell with their Double Shot Gingerbread Macchiates with 1 Splenda & 1 Equal with skim milk. UGH! Hehe
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A regular coffee is the perfect amount of cream and sugar. I am from the east coast, but just moved to the west.
I CANT FIND ANY DUNKIN DONUTS AROUND HERE EITHER.
Drinking at Star Bucks is killing me.
drop of cream, 1 sugar
I like the coffee taste, so i only use a little sugar so as not to overpower the nutty-ness
I take my coffee, either regular or decaf, with a ‘little bit of milk’ and one sweet and low. I step up to the counter and say that and 99 out of 100 times in about 15 different stores per week it comes out just right.
I get a small usually, possibly because I’m used the the proportions and it tastes better to me in the paper cup. ( or possibly becuase of the proportions of sweetner to coffee and milk )
I live in the Boston area and there is a DD on just about every major intersection, especially where I live south of the city. I would bet our area has the highest density of DD outlets in the chain with coffee and donuts and bagels available in stores, drive thrus (about 75% of stores have them ) and stand alone drive thrus…a new thing I think.
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well i work at dunks and we have a machine that shoots regular with cream and 3 sugars from boston
regular coffee=cream and sugar
black= no cream and sugar
i run a dd in nh…….and regular is a regular coffee
small: 2 cream, 2 sugar
medium: 3 cream, 3 sugar
large: 4 cream, 4 sugar
great one: 5 cream, 5 sugar
you want it a different way, DONT SAY REGULAR!!!!! all the machines are calibrated for size so yes a regular coffee has cream and sugar in it….not black….oh and by the way your “regular” of skim milk and 1 1/2 splendas is nobody elses regular so how do we know to make it that way unless you tell us????? i hate the idea of a “regular” coffee…you want your coffee made right just tell us exactly what you want in it!!!!!!!!!!!
In Connecticut a regular coffee is Caffinated with Cream and Sugar.
Me - French Vanilla Extra Cream Extra Sugar. But most of the DD folks can never get it right,usually too much cream and too little sugar
Regular coffee to me in the northeasst has always beeen cream and sugar. But I don’t go to Dunkin donuts for coffee anymore since I like Hazelnut coffee, not coffee flavored with shots of glycol and other nasty tasting s**t.
This is hilarious! We were just talking the other day about this! We are from Massachusetts and recently moved to Arizona. First thing we looked for when we got here was a Dunkin Donuts. Ofcourse we ordered a Medium Regular and ended up w/ a black coffee. When we explained ourselves the person behind the counter was clueless! Regular definately means cream and sugar!
three shots of espresso, steamed milk, four shots of flavor syrup and a sugar substitute like splenda - Bostonian “Coffee” aka Latte
please send me coupons for your ground coffee…thanks…TA
How can we order Dunkin Donuts for our coffee center @ our corporate office?
Regular (regulahh) coffee is signature blend with two shots of cream and two heaping teaspoons of sugahh.
In Chicago, a regular coffee is a black coffee. I always have my coffee with cream and sugar. By the way, does any know what type of cream is used by Dunkin Donuts. I moved to Southern Texas and there are no DD. I would like to recreate the coffee as close as possible.
CREAM AND SUGAR!!! I Moved to PA from RI, clueless here. They didn’t even know what an Iced Coffee was either til recently! I ordered one and they gave me a coolatta and I said NO NO NO…I wanted an Ice coffee not this fancy stuff and she said, oh, we don’t have that.! Ughhhh THERE ARE HARDLY NO DUNKIN DONUTS AROUND EITHER! PUT SOME MORE AROUND PLEASE!?
I’m from New England and I take my coffee with extra milk and a splenda. I’ve never used cream because I don’t like the taste and it makes me sick.
I work at Dunkin Donuts in Maine. Regular Coffee is a medium with three creams and three sugars. And please don’t argue with us about our prices beind different from other stores because the other stores are owned by another franchise.
The type of cream we used at my Dunkin Donuts in Massachusetts was Light Cream and I believe the brand of cream was from Garelick Farms.
I grabbed an ice coffee from a DD in Honolulu last year, and man oh man it was god-awful. It was put in an old-school paper cup and even though I asked for cream and sugar, it was darker than dark. I’m from RI and I think only the people in New England drink ice coffee.
mmmm toasted almond ice coffee,,cream 1 sugar:)
My shop is a block away from DD, and I am grateful they are that close.
I drink at least 2 23 oz. cups every day of regular coffee, which in Connecticut, New York and PA is Coffee, with 2 shots of cream and 2 sugars.
Coffee my way!
“Regular” in upstate New York means medium size, black. I only realized that there were other interpretations last week, when someone I know from New England asked for “a regular — you know, one cream, one sugar.”
Those West coast people don’t know anything.
Its called Regular, and it is cream and sugar.
I work at a Dunkin Donuts in NH. We are trained as to what a “Regular” coffee is, in each of our 4 sizes of hot and 3 sizes iced coffees.
Small : 2 Cream/2 Sugar , Medium : 3 Cream/3 Sugar , Large : 4 Cream/4 Sugar and Great One : 5 Cream/5 Sugar .
If this is not how you like your coffee prepared, please don’t say “regular”.(This only causes confusion, especially in a morning rush. When you say a Medium Regular, and really want a Medium with Skim Milk and 1 Sugar. When you order it, we start making it, hence the confusion.) You may mean Regular vs. Decaf, however, we only pour Decaf if you request it.
We very much wish to make your coffee right the first time, no matter if it’s in the middle of a morning rush, or a slow evening. Our goal is to put a smile on your face with your coffee made right the first time. Then we are sure that you will come back again and again for the same quality and speed of service you experienced the first time. Our cream is Light Cream from Garelick Farms.
Regular coffee should be just BLACK - No cream/milk or sugar
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I like Frapps at Starbucks but their hot coffee is another matter and I grew up in Md.”Salisbury” and loved Dunkin Donuts and Mister donuts but dd was my favorite
and I alsways felt relaxed at dd and never felt rushed althoigh I haven’t been to one in a long time because I live in Mountain Home Ar. and no dd here or starbucks but we have a local place that’s ok.
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I stop at this establishment evey morning for coffee and some morning for a bagel and cream cheese. This letter is to inform them that I will no longer be eating their food. That you can not handle food and money and scratch you head too. These gentlemen who are very nice people should be wearing gloves.
I have my DD Original Blend beans shipped to me in 5 lb bags here in Wisconsin. There are no DD anywhere close. I use to use 2 creams and 2 sugars but now I cannot use sugar anymore. So my regular cup of DD coffee is two small scoops of Coffeemate and my DD Coffee.
If you go to any cafe around and order coffee they always ask, would you like cream and sugar.
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How much longer would it take to say “medium with cream and sugar?” instead of “regular.” I’ve lived all over the place, and customs differ. The word “regular” is, in itself, subjective. So, let’s all slow down, and describe what we want as succinctly as possible. Keep up the good work Dunkin’ . You’re my favorite.
I recently moved to Indiana from NYC. In NYC a regular coffee meant medium with milk/cream and sugar. Here in Indiana, it apparently means black and “as opposed to decaf.” I’ve stopped asking for regular because it’s a waste of time whereas in NYC it was a quick, easily understood short cut.
Regular coffee is regular coffee. No decaf; no flavor; no ‘foo-foo’ drinks. Add your own cream and/or sugar.
Venice FL - new DD just opened last week - it’s a zoo! Takes 20 minutes to get something to go whether you go in or drive thru!
I’ve worked at Dunkin’ Donuts for nearly 11 years. I live on the East Coast and a regular coffee here is a cup of coffee with cream and sugar. Most people here refer it as that. Of course some think it’s a black coffee and others think it’s regular flavor - not french vanilla or hazelnut.
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I work at a Dunkin in Mass..
Regular coffee is..
small - 2 cream, 2 sugars
medium- 3, 3
large- 4, 4
xlarge- 5, 5
if you want black, say black.
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I totally think that DD should get rid of the styrofoam! I never realized how gross it was until I moved to CA and had to start drinking Starbucks because we do not have DD
In San Diego, CA a Regular Coffee is coffee with caffeine - as opposed to decaf. Sometimes you’ll hear people ask “regular, or unleaded”, meaning regular or decaf. If you want stuff other than coffee in your “regular coffee”, they’ll expect you to say so.
East Coast coffee regular is definitely with cream and suger, as many DD employees have posted. However, with so many flavor variations out there, it’s understandable that elsewhere regular coffee is meant to mean black with caffine, like you might say “regular Coke” as opposed to Diet. I say make everyone’s life easier and if you are at an unfamiliar DD or other coffee shop, order exactly how you would like your coffee made. An annoying teacher used to say, “Say what you mean and mean what you say. To be terrific you must be specific”
Well, as for me…… I’ ve been working at Dunkin Donuts since I was 15 and am now a manager. Straight from Rhode Island a regular is without question served with CREAM and SUGAR. If you want black, simply ask for BLACK. If you want Decaf you must be specific….ex.( HI, may I have a medium decaf regular with a shot of french vanilla?) This would be a decaf coffee with cream and sugar and a flavor shot of FV. Ordering simple and specifically is the best way for you to get the coffee you want. It’s actually quite simple!
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Regular is black! why screw up coffee with cream and sugar. YUCK. SEATTLES BEST is way better than Starbucks.
-mark J. Seattle WA.
Regular coffee in Indiana, is black caffeine coffee. There isn’t enough Dunkin’s in Indiana.
regular in the northeast is 2 cream / 2 sugars.. i order mine med. hot hazelnut extra/extra.. or you can order on how many sugar and creams like 4&4 or 8&8
“regular Coffee the Dunkin’ Way”
Small 2 cream 2 sugar
Medium 3cream 3 sugar
Large 4 cream 4 sugar
Great one 5 cream 5 sugar
of course depending on the equipment in the store the hue can always be different. Also the actual amount of sugar can be different too. Some stores still spoon in the sugar while others have machines that portion out exact amounts of sugar, and still others use liquid sugar (YUCK!!)
I have to agree with Jessica, definately be specific when you order your coffee that way you’ll get what you want and not what you asked for.
Me I take a great one cup 1 small shot espresso, 3 sugars, 10 skim milk and the rest hot cocoa. Put the sugar in first then the espresso small hot cocoa button and the rest skim milk. LOL Specific.
just a few questions-
has anyone considered where the coffee for their double bloody decaf mochachino grande caramel soy lattes is coming from and who is being exploited to provide it for you?
what happened to small non commercial cafes?
who wants complete domination of one brand?
who pays for your dental bills?
I grew up in RI, but my parents were from IL. The first time my mom went to a DD, she ordered a “regular” thinking that it would be black coffee. Boy, was she in for a shock!! She still orders it with cream on the side, but I like mine regular - I could even go “extra,extra”, but it’s too embarrassing to order.
I was so sad when I moved to LA and found no DD in sight.
Now I’ve moved to Nashville and a DD just opened up there. But I’m afraid that they won’t put in my cream/sugar for me, which would be rather annoying.
i’m from Mauritius and for me regular is cream and sugar but if you want black coffe you should simply ask for a black coffee.
black coffe kinda scares me i dunno why but u def have to have some cream and sugra in there i personally like iced french vanilla xtra xtra but regular is cool 2 though not black nope..
Anywhere outside of New England, “regular coffee” is used merely to differentiate between decaffienated coffee.
I grew up in the south, and I always used “regular” to mean just plain ol’ everyday drip coffee–not decaf, not flavored, not espresso, etc. I drink mine black, so I often order a “regular black coffee,” meaning everyday coffee with nothing in it. This caused me much trouble at Dunkin’ Donuts when I moved to Connecticut. I’d go through a drive-through, order my coffee, and taste it about two miles down the road to find that they’d given me “candy coffee”–loaded down with cream and sugar. Bleah! It took me months to realize that they were taking “regular” to mean with cream and sugar. I never did, however, figure out why NO ONE ever asked me what I meant, because even if “regular” means different things in different places, BLACK always means “nothing added,” as far as I’m aware.
Regular coffee is cream and suger, thats how i always get it in on cape cod massachusetts
Sm reg- 2×2 Md reg- 3×3 Lg reg-4×4 XL reg-5×5
(Ex. -2×2= 2creams and 2sugars)
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I don’t know what an actual “regular” coffee consists of, but I can attest to the fact that each person has a different definition and is not only insistent that he is correct, but is oblivious to the concept that anyone else could possibly mean something different. As a bakery counter person on Cape Cod, I encountered thousands of peope in search of a “regular,” and no two consecutive people ever meant the same thing. One person thinks “regular” is cream and sugar, the next thinks it’s black, the next thinks it refers only to size, the next thinks it’s sugar only, and so on. But each one will refuse to explain what “regular” means to him or her, and will just scream “REGULAH!” louder and louder, and go all red in the face. “I want REGULAH! What are you DEAF? Don’t you speak ENGLISH? REGULAH!!!” I saw a friend’s mother do this recently, and when I urged her to tell the counter person what she meant, she wanted a large cofee with just cream. HOW is that REGULAH? I implore you all to retire the term — it has done so much harm to so many for so long.
I love your toasted almond decafe coffee ..only problem is we are 20 miles away so i only get that once a weel … wish you would have dunkin donuts here in our town..eveyone would be happy!! cher
YOUR BAGELS ARE NOT AS GOOD AS THEY USED TO BE
WHERE IS YOUR QUALITY CONTROL ALSO
WHY DID YOU STOP MAKING CRULLERS THE STICKS ARE NOT AS GOOD
Technically, a regular Medium Coffee is suppose to have 3 heaping teaspoons of sugar and 1.5 oz of cream. That is the recommended anyway.
http://www.wolvas.org.uk/pdf_files/2/keno-2.html
WHAT MADE YOU TAKE DUNKENCHINO OF THE MARKET? i BROUGHT A CUP OR TWO EVERY SINGLE DAY ON MY WAY TO WORK.
Every New Yorker KNOWS that “coffee regular” is white, two sugars. What California thinks? - who cares?
In Iowa, a regular coffee is black. Don’t dare put sugar in my coffee, cream is ok. We need more DD’s in the midwest. The nearest one to me is about 2 hours in another state! I have to order mine and have it shipped, to get my fix. Iowa needs more DD’s please hurry! We want coffee! I feel so deprived!
I have to say it doesn’t make sense for black coffee to be called regular. Black is black. Regular is light cream and sugar. Regular is middle of the road and most common. From there you can ask for more or less.
Black= plain
Reg= med. one sugar one cream
extra, extra= double sugar, double cream = my personal preference
Sounds like we need standardized definitions posted. What are you gonna do if you order from a different location?
I have to add however that Chai Latte rocks!!
I am currently a manager at a DD shop in NY, a ‘regular” coffee is a Medium coffee with cream and sugar, 3 and 3 to be exact. If you order a regular coffee from here to MA, you will get a coffee with cream and sugar. If you’d like it black, just say “black”. Light means extra dairy, dark means less dairy, light and sweet is just a splash of coffee and extra sweet.
French Vanilla is the best. Regular black coffe is so plain and boring. How can people drink it black its disgusting. French vanilla with extra cream and sugar is a great way to stimulate your brain and start your day.
I’m an East Coast lady…. and I like my coffee just like me… small, light and sweet!!
What happened tot he Pumpkin Spice donuts? They were a seasonal offering in the fall–amazing! They’ve gone away!
Hi! MidWest “Michigan” gal here. I think a regular coffee here would be just a medium cup - black - nothing added.
For me… I take a medium coffee, double cream and three splendas. I love Tim Hortons over Dunkin Donuts… and I also love McDonalds coffee the same!
If you want to try good coffee from a chain, then try Peets Coffee and Tea. It puts Dunkin Donuts to chain. The thought of raving about coffee from a Donut Shop chain makes my stomach turn. Deep, bold flavor is key, not sugar and cream.
But if you’re going to have sugar, make it raw sugar and some Soy Milk.
Please: a cow is not my mother. Her calf needs her milk. Both calf and mother cow is slaughtered brutally. I purchase Starbucks coffee because it is nearly impossible to find dunkin’ donuts’ coffee shops that offer an alternative SOY MILK! If you have a list of Rhode Island coffee shops with Soy milk options, I would appreciate hearing from you.
I remain~ non violent and wish the same for you also. caio !~rosanna
Rosanna,
Nice to know that a soybean is your mother. Please - animal rights activists like you make me sick. They are FREAKING ANIMALS. They were put here by God for our use (not abuse before you put words in my mouth).
From someone who has worked at D&D’s for years, and from the east coast, a regular coffee is cream and sugar. 2 of each for a sm, 3 for med, 4 for lrg, 5 for xl, you order a regular in my store and that is how you get it.
I always buy coffee form your store. Now I am going to buy a bag of coffee bean and make coffee at home. Can you send me coupon for a bag of coffee bean ?
i like all different smothies like strawberry
Hee Hee, the regional differences crack me up. In the Chicago area, “regular” coffee is plain, black coffee. A “Boston,” is cream and sugar. My friend insists the “Boston” is extra cream/ sugar. Personally, I order my coffee wih cream and sugar. I used to brink it black, but the sweet creaminess eventually won me over.
does anyone know if i can find type of cream dunkin donuts use at stores?
I work at dunkin and regular coffee means cream AND sugar.
I LIVE IN QUINCY MA.
THE COFFEE IS TASTLESS. YOU GO TO SEVERAL PLACES
AND IT IS THE SAME YOU DO NOT SMELLTHE AROMA LIKE WE USE TO.DID YOU CHANG BRANDS.THANK YOU BT QUINCY MA
Help These real coffee drinkers This HOLIDAY SEASON, I love my coffee strong and black yet smooth not bitter which is how iIMAKE MY DD grocery brand at home( I’m from Oxford, OH) there’s no Dunkin even close. I especially love our annual trip to Florida where I enjoy great coffee and my sweet glazed cake.
Please pass this foo foo story along about the $5 dollar a cup anti American coffee company and mail these guys some of the Great American Working persons Coffee from Dunkin!! Happy Holidays to Every American soldier & citizens and Bless our great American Coffee & Doughnut Company. I Feel greatful to live in the midwest where we still have the common sense to support an all American Purveyor of delicious.
Dont know if this is accurate, but if it is. Guess I won’t be drinking
Starbucks anymore! ! !
> Recently Marines in Iraq wrote to Starbucks because they wanted to
> let them know how much they liked their coffees and to request that they
> send some of it to the troops there. Starbucks replied, telling the Marines
> thank you for their support of their business, but that Starbucks does not
> support the war, nor anyone in it, and that they would not send the troops
> their
> brand of coffee.
>
> So as not to offend Starbucks, maybe we should not support them by
> buying any of their products! I feel we should get this