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food safety
Dunkin Donuts Pulls Hot Chocolate, Dunkaccinos Over Salmonella Scare
Dunkin Donuts is stopping sales of its hot chocolate and Dunkaccino products because one of its milk supplier, Plainview Milk Products Cooperative, found salmonella on some of its equipment. DD says they haven't found any contamination in any of their products but wanted to be safe. We're glad to see a company being proactive about food safety and we're glad to see testing uncover contamination before any illnesses were reported, but still, pathogens in cookie dough and hot chocolate is just mean. More » -
free stuff
National Doughnut Day Is Tomorrow! Free Doughnuts!
Tomorrow, June 5th, is National Doughnut Day. Why do you care about this? Because it is your opportunity to grab yourself a free doughnut. And as we all know, free doughnuts have no calories. Actually, that is a lie. More » -
dunkin donuts
Dunkin' Donuts' 99 Cent Latte Ads Are Misleading
Corey pointed out to us that the Dunkin' Donuts advertising for their 99 cent latte is a bit misleading. He writes,
I have had the $.99 hot latte a bunch of times and it didn't occur to me that the TV commercial is showing a cup that looks to be approximately double the size. My wife has bought them too but she now knows why she feels disappointed every time she gets one.
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fast food
Dunkin Donuts Guy Slashes Your Tires Because You Didn't Wait For Your Coffee
Here's something that you don't often see — a Dunkin Donuts employee got so mad at a guy who decided not to wait for his coffee (because it was taking too long) that he left the store, pulled out a folding knife, and slashed the customer's tires. All. Four. Of. Them. More » -
advertising
Facial Recognition Technology + Video Screens = Creepy Dunkin' Donuts Ads?
The Wall Street Journal says that Dunkin' Donuts is experimenting with video screens that use facial recognition technology to figure out your age and gender. The screens then display ads targeted specifically to you. More » -
id
Dunkin' Donuts Won't Give You A Cup Of Iced Coffee Because You Look Under 18
Coffee lovers, rejoice! Dunkin' Donuts is giving away free 16 oz. cups of iced coffee today—unless you look under 18 and don't have identification. Tipster Carolyn watched with disbelief as workers at the Dunkin' Donuts at 1433 2nd Avenue on New York's Upper East Side refused to serve two high school seniors who didn't have identification.
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policies
Dunkin Doesn't Serve Cup O' Ice Water Or Any Variant Thereof
You gotta wonder what lead up to the creation of this sign at a Dunkin Donuts in Bushwick (a DMZ-esque area of Brooklyn being penetrated by the forces of gentrification) covering every possible angle of not giving you a cup of ice water. Maybe there were even previous versions of the sign that had to keep being tweaked as people kept coming in asking for a vessel of chilled H20. How might that encounter have gone? Let's take a peek inside The Consumerist Miniature Theater Machine:
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Last week, Jamba Juice gave away breakfast paste while Starbucks gave away teeny cups of less-burnt coffee. Tomorrow, Dunkin' Donuts gets in on the action with a free artery-clogging donut with every coffee purchase, in honor of Tax Day. [Dunkin' Donuts] (Thanks to LE!)
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fast food
Inside Dunkin's Virtually Trans-Fat Free Donut
It's been a long road but Dunkin Donuts is going virtually trans-fat free by next month. What took so long? Well, matching the yummy-but-deadly taste of trans-fat frying oil with gross-but-healthier oils is a time consuming process, according to the Boston Globe: More » -
fast food
Subway Is Not Ashamed: First Fast Food Restaurant To Put Calorie Info On Menus
While the other large fast food chains sue the City of New York to keep calorie information off their menus, Subway has gone ahead and complied with the New York City regulation. Dunkin' Donuts, meanwhile, submitted a sample menu meant to "prove" that putting calorie info on its menu just couldn't be done... and the NYC Health Department responded by having its own graphic designer redo the sign to prove that it could be done. More » -
dunkin donuts
Dunkin' Donuts Has A Severe Case Of Starbucks Envy
First McDonald's started testing the McCafe, essentially a Starbucks within McDonalds, now plain old Dunkin' Donuts has caught Starbucks envy. More » -
free stuff
Free Dunkin Donuts Iced Coffee Today
Yes. Today is the day! If you do decide to join the madness and get a free iced coffee, please take pictures of any incidents of depravity, murder, or coffee induced panic and send them to tips [at] consumerist [dot] com. Alternatively you can upload them to Flickr and submit them to our Flickr pool. Be sure to tag them with some variation of "dunkin donuts." More » -
dunkin donuts
Free Iced Coffee At Dunkin Donuts On Wednesday
This Wednesday, March 21st Dunkin' Donuts will be having "Nationwide Free Iced Coffee Day" From their Press Release: More » -
mcdonalds
Fast Food 24/7: McDonald's To Go All Night? Wendy's Breakfast? It's Coming.
24/7 McDonald's are growing in profitability as more Americans eat away from home and at weird hours. McDonald's has almost reached a saturation point, after all: How many new locations they can open? What's next? The answer appears to be extending their hours. You can expect to see: More » -
ads
Verizon To Put Ads On Your Phone
From The New York Times: "Beginning early next year, Verizon Wireless will allow placement of banner advertisements on news, weather, sports and other Internet sites that users visit and display on their mobile phones, company executives said." More » -
advertising
Time To Make the Doughnuts...In Heaven
Michael Vale, the Dunkin' Donuts man, has passed away here in New York of complications from diabetes. In honor of his service in inciting us to snack, we will forgo any jokes about putting sprinkles on his ashes. More »
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