On 11/3/2013 1:10 AM, MotoFox wrote:
> Quoth Nancy Young~
>
>> Like Dunkin Donuts. Not that I'm a big fan of donuts but they used to
>> have some that I liked. Now they're trucked in.
>
> I used to like Dunkin Doughnuts too, but what the hell happened to them?
> They had several locations around here, particularly in the '80s, but
> pretty much all disappeared from this area throughout the end of the
> '90s-early 2000s. Think the closest one to me at last was at least a good
> 15 miles down I205, in Clackamas.

That's funny to me, because that's the time frame when Dunkin Donuts
exploded, seemed like they opened one on every corner within the
space of a couple of years. Same time they stopped making the donuts
at the store. Much cheaper to open a location if you don't have to
have a kitchen, practically, I guess.

I read that donuts are really a small part of their business, it's
the drive through coffee that makes them their money.

> Do they even exist on the west coast today?

I have no idea, I thought they were everywhere in the states.

I first noticed they were everywhere in the Boston area. Thought
it maybe was my imagination until I took the Duck Tour and the
guide mentioned that Boston had more Dunkin Donuts per capita
than anywhere else. After that trip is when the number of
locations quintupled where I live, so who knows if that's still true.

nancy